GSoC: May 26 - June 01

Published on June 2, 2014.

This is one of the reports about my GSoC project and cover the second week of "Students coding".

The second week wasn't as great I was hoping before it start. Again I waste time trying to build all the Firefox OS stack since I fail on this task. The good news is that I got the Flatfish tablet and wrote a better demo to test the keyboard. Bellow you will find more details about the past week and the plans for this one.

Building Firefox OS

Build B2G repository isn't a easy task for me. For details about the problems that I had read my email to B2G mail list about problems with hamachi and problems with Flatfish.

Update Gaia

Since I fail in build Firefox OS I start to look for one way to update Gaia since this is the part of the stack that I need to work. After spend some time read articles at MDN I found that I can use make install-gaia at Gaia repository to update it in my device (for more information see Hacking Gaia at MDN or the blog post that I wrote about it, only available in portuguese).

Gaia UI Tests

MDN has a nice set of articles as introduction to UI Tests. I follow the articles to learn how to write the tests but didn't write the ones that I need.

Flatfish

Flatfish is the codename of one of the tablets with Firefox OS. I receive one this week and spend some time with it. During the time that I spend with Flatfish I found some bugs:

• Bug 1017622 -"This connection is Untrusted" for Marketplace
• Bug 1017396 - Wrong keyboard's width
• Bug 1016425 - Could not access sdcards (internal or external)
• Bug 1017569 - Only microphone available for WebRTC
• Bug 1017584 -Firefox OS to Firefox OS Communication Fails to Send Audio

• Bug 1017561 -Sending horizontal flipped image when using WebRTC

  This happens with hamachi.

• Bug 1018636 - MAC address is displayed as "not available" after reflash Gaia of the device
• Bug 1018385 - Update Gaia using 'make install-gaia' produce empty Homescreen
• Bug 1018229 - Search bar is in front of the icons

and missing features:

• Bug 1018818 - Add support to public calendar

Keyboads at Flatfish

I already test the Keyboard prototype at Flatfish:

Although all the keyboard was working when I test they at the simulator some are broken when I test at Flatfish. Since I didn't found the reason that make they broke I didn't publish yet steps to people test it.

TeX Editor App

For test the keyboard I want a webapp more like a text editor that support paragraphs. This week I start writing this webapp and the source code are available at https://github.com/r-gaia-cs/TeXEditor.

Plans for June 02 - June 08

• Find bug that broke the keyboard at Flatfish
• Wrote steps that people can follow to test the project
• Wrote the tests that I didn't do last week
• Work to fix the bugs related to the project

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