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  • Isaac Keyet 4:34 pm on May 8, 2013 Permalink | Reply
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    Dev chat summary for May 8, 2013 

    Chat log.

    Agenda

    • iOS projects update
    • Android projects update
    • Moving dev blog discussions to make/mobile (this blog)
    • Handbook reminder

    iOS projects update

    NUX (new welcome guide, improved WordPress.com sign up) is almost complete, need to look over copy and polish a few things, then should be ready to get it translated and tested.

    WordPress.com native reader project: picking up momentum again, currently working on threaded comments which is complicated.

    Accounts migration: need to write the actual core data migration but very close to completion. Should simplify the way WordPress.com accounts act under the hood in the iOS app.

    Android projects update

    A bug fix update is going out today that fixes a bug with featured images.

    The WordPress.com Notifications project is very close to beta, no word on when just yet but should be very soon.

    Moving dev blog discussions to make/mobile (this blog)

    We decided to close the dev blogs and (if possible) migrate their data to this blog instead and keep all discussions/announcements/etc in one place. The filtering on this p2 should make it easy to only see discussions about specific platforms if you only contribute to one. @mrroundhill took it on himself to investigate what’s needed for migrating the data. @isaackeyet (me) will look into a way to display sticky messages on the dev blogs once migrations are complete. The platform leads for each platform will also post a last post on each one of the dev blogs letting subscribed readers know that the blog has been merged with make/mobile (this would be @mrroundhill, @koke, and @daniloercoli for BlackBerry and Windows Phone).

    After the chat @nacin jumped in and let us know he will assist with the migrations as well.

    Handbook reminder

    @aerych reminded himself and all others that the Handbook is still in need of looking over and updating – please refer to the separate todo post for details on what’s left and who’s responsible for what.

    Other

    @daniloercoli let everybody know that there’s a new bug fix update live for Windows Phone. It has bug fixes as well as a small new feature that lets users share permalinks to other apps on the device (such as Email, Facebook, Twitter, etc).

    Next week

    The next dev chat will be on May 15, 2013 at 15:00 UTC. Mark your calendar and join us in #wordpress-mobile on Freenode.

     

  • Isaac Keyet 11:28 pm on April 18, 2013 Permalink | Reply
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    We’re coming up on the end of the contributor handbook schedule. May 17th is the last date for all handbook components, after that there’s only editing left. We’ve not followed the exact structure as suggested by Docs, but we’re not far from having all parts ready either. So as we’re approaching the home stretch, I thought it best to create a check list of remaning items so we make sure everything gets done in time.

    I’ll assign people to complete the pages to the best of my knowledge.

    Introduction

    iOS

    The state of the iOS and Graphics sections are far behind the rest, so these two only have general todos.

    Android

    BlackBerry

    Windows Phone

    Can’t find the reference right now, but if I remember correctly @daniloercoli, @aerych, and @sendhilp all wanted to take another look at the Windows Phone section. Please divide any items here in between you!

    Other Apps

    Contribute with Design

    All items assigned to @isaackeyet

    Assist with Testing

    XML-RPC & API Contributions

    General Guides

    Any takers here? @beaucollins comes to mind, let me know if you’re up for taking these on.

    Tips & Tricks

    Credits

    Other todos

     

    • daniloercoli 8:33 am on April 19, 2013 Permalink | Reply

      BlackBerry: I will update/finish the section “Intro to app development”, but other than that don’t think we need to spend other time on this platform, that is now deprecated (BB10 is out since Jan), and the app didn’t see an update (and any contributor) since mid 2012.

  • Eric 3:51 pm on April 17, 2013 Permalink | Reply
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    Weekly dev chat summary for April 17, 2013 

    Chat log.

    Agenda

    • Android
    • iOS
    • Mobile Handbook
    • Gnome Outreach
    • GSoC Communications

    Android

    Android 2.3, the awesome UI refresh version, will launch today! Great job team!

    Push notifications for WP.com and Jetpack are currently in the works.

    iOS

    We submitted version 3.5.3. This updated fixes a few bugs and crashes, including an annoying orientation bug affecting folks using iOS5 and some better error management.

    Current

    • NUX : Work continues.
    • Reader: First iteration of working views this week so we can start iterating.
    • Maintenance: We’re looking at improving notifications. Also looking at handling login limiting from the WordPressApi classes.

    On the horizon

    Looking at improved media or working on the iOS SDK for the next “feature”.

    Mobile Handbook

    We’re coming up to a hard deadline. We acknowledge there are still some parts of the handbook that need our attention, either to refine or to complete.

    A community member (irc: radchadd) volunteered to create some screenshots and instructions for setting up WPAndroid for the first time. This will be nice to include in the Android handbook.

    Action Item: Get a post up with todos for the handbook to which @isaackeyet has volunteered.

    Gnome Outreach

    @JenMylo mentioned it a few weeks back around when GSoC was announced. We don’t have a lot of details about this yet but it sounds similar to the proposals and mentoring process of GSoC.  Something for us to keep an eye on.

    GSoC communications.

    Several applicants have been using the wp-hacker’s mailing list for feedback.  Those of us who are mentoring should make sure we’re subscribed so we can comment on projects that are posted there. We should also talk about how we an better support the folks in timezones we don’t normally cover.

    Next week

    The next dev chat will be on April 24, 2013 at 1500 UTC. Mark your calendar and join us in #wordpress-mobile on Freenode.

     

  • Eric 5:25 pm on January 30, 2013 Permalink | Reply
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    Weekly Dev Chat Summary for Jan 30, 2013 

    This week’s chat log.

    Agenda:

    • WPiOS French translation
    • WPWinPhone 1.9.2 : status
    • WPiOS 3.4 : Releasing (today?)
    • WPAndroid : status
    • Wireframes

    WPiOS French translation

    Frank Klein (fklu) mentioned that the French localization of WPiOS has new translations waiting to be verified. (Props Frank for taking the time to do the translations.) Glotpress shows the French translation at 65% so it would be great to get these verified and get that number higher.  We’re making an action item to ping polyglots and help get the ball rolling.

    WPWinPhone 1.9.2

    @daniloercoli submitted version 1.9.2 to Microsoft on Tuesday.  This is a bug fix release addressing 12 bugs and crashes. Two more significant issues were identified shortly after the app was submitted. Since there is no mechanism for the developer to reject a submission we will have a 1.9.3 version ready and waiting as soon as 1.9.2 is approved.

    WPiOS 3.4

    Apple has approved the app and it is pending developer release, however, at the last minute a server-side issue was detected.  Our plan is to release the app later today once the server-side bug has been squashed.

    @beaucollins is drafting an announcement post for the blog.

    Congrats to everyone who helped make 3.4 happen!

    WPAndroid

    Version 2.2.7 is in the Google Play store and is looking stable.  We’ll submit to the Nook and Amazon stores today.

    The team is moving forward on the planned UI updates.  Will Norris (willnorris) has already made progress on the new sliding menu and is working on integrating in all the right places.

    Wireframes

    @karmatosed has posted some updated wireframes that are the result conversations with @isaackeyet.  The team will take a look at these and leave comments on the post.

    Next week

    The next dev chat will be on Feb 6, 2013 at 16:00 UTC. Mark your calendar and join us in #wordpress-mobile on Freenode.

     

  • karmatosed 4:39 pm on January 30, 2013 Permalink | Reply  

    Wireframes from a session at WordCamp Norway dev day 

    @isaackeyet and me got together during the WordCamp Norway dev day and talked through some possible interfaces for the starting screen and sign in section. We talked through various approaches in other apps and took forward some ideas from the dev chat last week such as single sign in.

    I’m attaching the current idea here.

    A few notes:

    • The first 2 screens are just showing suggestions for the initial screen which will be a step by step guide through (walkthrough) the features. Think Circle for the scrolling down and potential animation possibilities.  The plan is our own take either with custom backgrounds/photos or icons (such as the WordPress icon set perhaps).
    • The 3rd option shows the ‘slide in’ log in screen. This would slide up to show the form – showing the under page so you can easily get back again.
    • The last option shows the keyboard in size comparison.  This will probably have the return button changing depending on context.

    Looking forward to what people think.

     

    • John Saddington 6:17 pm on January 30, 2013 Permalink | Reply

      wow, this is awesome! neat concepts!

    • Isaac Keyet 12:08 am on January 31, 2013 Permalink | Reply

      I obviously like this approach but we’d have to work out copy, icons, and animations for it to work I think. We were talking about maybe using a combination of icon+text designs and ones purely composed of photos in a parallax-scrolling pattern.

  • Isaac Keyet 5:47 pm on January 23, 2013 Permalink | Reply
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    Weekly Dev Chat Summary for Jan 23, 2013 

    This week’s chat log.

    Agenda

    • WPiOS Status and What’s Next
    • Navigation UI for WPAndroid
    • WPiOS Sign Up Wireframe Discussion

    WPiOS Status and What’s Next

    Version 3.4 of WPiOS has been submitted, the main new feature is a Notifications panel for WordPress.com and Jetpack-enabled blogs. It also features stability improvements.

    A bug fix update is in the works, in which the UI/UX around Notifications will be improved further. Tickets going into this bug fix update will be listed on the WPiOS Trac.

    We’re also working on better Previews for WPiOS, this will likely be the next major version of WPiOS – would be v 3.5 then. Since we have feature-based dev cycles this may be subject to change though. Any new contributors should jump in at #wordpress-mobile on Freenode to a mobile group member for starting work on any major new feature.

    Navigation UI for WPAndroid

    Background.

    We decided to iterate on the UI in an upcoming WPAndroid release:

    • Add ActionBarSherlock and ‘convert’ our homegrown action bar to the native one
    • Remove the ‘dashboard’ home screen and instead put the items in a slide-out menu
    • Make small style updates around the app (lists etc) to better conform to the Holo UI pattern

    Tasks delegated so far:

    Previews is also in the works, @koke says it’s about half-way there. Whatever finishes first will be v. 2.3.

    WPiOS Sign Up Wireframe Discussion

    Background courtesy @karmatosed.

    We had a discussion around what a sign up flow for WPiOS could look like, based on the wireframe. We like the direction but concluded that some basic improvements to the sign up/login flow might be nice altogether. The team highlighted plans to remove the “Select Blogs” step from the set up flow altogether, but this doesn’t have to happen at the same time.

    We decided that another round of wireframes may be in order that ditches the first screen altogether and moves straight into a combined self-hosted/WordPress.com log in form. We want to make sure there’s enough space there for some explanatory copywriting and that there are ways to highlight fields and provide additional instructions (at least for the URL field). We’ll wait to discuss more until we’ve seen some more wireframes.

    It was a big discussion, if you’re interested be sure to check the chat log.

    Next week

    The next dev chat will be on Jan 30, 2013 at 16:00 UTC. Mark your calendar and join us in #wordpress-mobile on Freenode.

     

  • Eric 8:27 pm on January 16, 2013 Permalink | Reply
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    Weekly Dev Chat Summary for Jan 16, 2013 

    Chat log (once its available).

    Agenda

    • WPiOS 3.3.1 Released
    • WPiOS 3.4 Status
    • WPWinPhone 1.9.1 Status
    • WPAndroid 2.2.6
    • WPBlackBerry for BBOS10
    • Wireframes and User Test (karmatosed)
    • Handbook Status/Questions

    WPiOS 3.3.1 Released

    WordPress for iOS version 3.3.1 was approved by Apple last week and is available in the App Store. We have seen an early trend of a 50% drop in crash reports with this release! (Go Team!) We noted three major issues remaining are:

    • Draft posts disappearing
    • Issues with logins
    • Issues with media uploads

    We will plan to address these following the release of 3.4.

    WPiOS 3.4 Status

    We’re continue to test version 3.4. There are a few todos remaining but the hope to submit to Apple Thursday.

    WPWinPhone 1.9.1 Status

    Microsoft rejected version 1.9.1 due to an issue with localization. According to their email:

    The application’s UI text is not localized to the targeted language PortugalPortuguese. Instead, it is displayed in English.

    No changes to localizations were made in this release which leads us to think Microsoft changed something in their app review process regarding localizations. We believe specifying a specific localization culture instead of a neutral culture (“pr-PR” instead of “pr”) will satisfy the app review issue. We are submitting the app with this change, but will also reach out to Microsoft directly for any insight they might provide.

    WPAndroid 2.2.6

    @mrroundhill has new version of WPAndroid is beta. Announcements have been made on the dev blog and on twitter. The new version includes the holo theme support for Android devices running a more recent version of the platform, fixes to https and two crashes, and other optimizations. We’ll plan on releasing the app on Google Play Monday. Props to @willnorris for his contributions to this release!

    WPBlackBerry for BBOS10

    @daniloercoli has updated WPAndroid 2.2.6 to be supported on BlackBerry OS 10 when it launches. The new BlackBerry OS will be officially announced January 30th. We will submit the updated app to BlackBerry this coming Friday or Monday so it will be available to BlackBerry users as soon as the new OS and devices are available to the public.

    Wireframes and User Test

    @karmatosed has posted some updated UI examples and also provided a write up of her experience using WPiOS. We skimmed these quickly and decided for @karmatosed and @isaackeyet to talk more in-depth after the dev chat.

    Handbook Status/Questions

    @raggedrobins (irc: siobhan) joined us to field any questions we might have about the handbooks and offered to help out where able.

    @isaackeyet reminded all that the draft mobile handbook is located at http://make.wordpress.org/mobile/handbook/ and of a conversation about the TOC on the blog.  We also have the goal of finalizing the table of contents by January 25th.

    We talked about adding a “Ways to Get Involved” page after the introduction section and a General Guides section before tips and tricks.  We also commented that it would be nice to have screenshots where possible.

    Next week’s dev chat

    The next dev chat will be on Jan 23, 2013 at 16:00 UTC. Mark your calendar and join us in #wordpress-mobile on Freenode.

     

  • karmatosed 4:24 pm on January 2, 2013 Permalink | Reply  

    Some suggested mobile designs 

    As @isaackeyet mentioned I’m exploring some options.  I’ve started thinking firstly of some specific screens and will move into some flows this coming week.  These are ideas away from what we have now and that was one of the points in doing this – to not be influenced by what we have and just think ‘what if’.

    Sites subscribed to view:

    Screen stages experimental suggestion: (using colour to indicate either types or graduation for pure styling)


    Adding new post wheel interface:

     

    • John Saddington 3:47 pm on January 5, 2013 Permalink | Reply

      these are so neat! well done!

    • Marko Heijnen 5:46 pm on January 8, 2013 Permalink | Reply

      I don’t think the round menu will work. From what I have learned this causing miss hits. Due to the rounding but also that you can’t really make a round button.

      Most of the design from the IOS app I like. I do however think that the selecting site should be different. So a screen with all sites makes sense to have. With doing this the site/CPT menu is nicer to use.

    • karmatosed 12:11 pm on January 16, 2013 Permalink | Reply

      I worked on these a bit more expanding some of the concepts.

      Not sure this one works at all :

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