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[Bill Filler <bill.filler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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    Apps Team - Status March 21, 2014


    Summary:

Progress has been slowed greatly by the transitions to Android 4.4 and
Qt5.2 and the resultant blockages and issues that have occurred on the
build/test/release process. We have quite a few large features that are
close to landing (conference calling, dual-sim, contact sync,
webbrowser-oxide, content-hub) and we hope to be able to get these
actually landed once the queue unblocks and they can be properly tested
in silos.


    Telephony Services:

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    Conference calling support added, MR's being tested in silos now

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    Dual-Sim support added to relevant telepathy backends and telephony
    service, MR's being tested in silos now.

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    Class 0 SMS support added

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    USSD support in development, good progress being made.

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    Firefighting some issues with failing tests and builds on arm64 and
    powerpc


    Messaging App:

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    Modifications for dual-sim support in place, next step is to
    implement UI to allow choosing/displaying the carrier to send
    message on.

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    Firefighting intermittent AP test failures on Qt5.2 images


    Dialer App:

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    Modifications for dual-sim support in place, next step is to
    implement UI to allow choosing/displaying the carrier to make call
    on, MR's being tested in silos now

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    Conference calling support functional with temporary UI/assets. MR's
    being tested in silos now.

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    USSD frontend work in progress.


    Webbrowser App:

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    Very close to landing initial version of webbrowser-app with oxide
    backend as the default (installable from ppa:phablet-team/ppa).
    Remaining blockers to be addressed early next week:

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        user-agent override mechanism needs to be functioning for
        correct functionality of certain sites, like gmail.com

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        fix crasher on sites requesting geo-location

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    Implemented new version (0.2) of UbuntuWebView which uses oxide
    backend. Version 0.1 will continue to use QtWebKit backend but will
    be marked deprecated and phased out after some time.

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    Released a new version of webbrowser-app with multiple bug fixes


    Address Book App/Service:

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    Many pending MR's piled up as we wait for CI Train to become unblocked

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    Changes mostly focused on optimizations needed for contact syncing
    and some design changes

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    Fought many issues with failing tests and builds on arm64 and powerpc


    Contact Syncing:

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    sync-monitor work continued

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        better performance

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        support for syncing default calendar as well as default address book

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    blocked until address-book-* can get released


    Content Hub:

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    Work nearly complete on transition to new content-hub API, MR's are
    now being testing in silo after being blocked for the past week.

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    Work nearly complete on Peer Picker UI component, MR's are now being
    tested in silo after being blocked for the past week.

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        additional work to continue to improve performance of icon loading

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    Work nearly complete on webbrowser-app file upload, pending all of
    the above landing

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    Work to start next week on integration with Download Manager from
    Browser.


    OSK:

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    some minor bug fixes for predictive text and auto-caps landed


    Gallery

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    Gallery finally released as a click package

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    After being blocked in CI Train for quite some time, finally landed
    some significant changes to gallery-app that improve desktop mode
    and on device:

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        Bug #907870: [desktop] Gallery does not display photos in sub
        folders

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        Bug #1221968: use libthumbnailer for gallery thumbnails

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        Bug #1268748: videos are not displayed when running on desktop

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        Bug #1271327: disable switching between camera and gallery on
        desktop

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        Bug #1287272: Black flash at the end of the zoom animation

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    Many other bug fixes that improve desktop mode are being actively
    worked on

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