Michael Schneider Telefónica I+D

TELEFÓNICA AND

FIREFOXOS“A LOVE STORY”

DANIEL COLOMA - @danielcolomaTELEFÓNICA, FIREFOX OS HEAD OF ENGINEERING

MIGUEL SCHNEIDER - @miguelschneiderTELEFÓNICA, FIREFOX OS DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT & ENGINEERING

Hardware

Software

Services

THE WORLD IN 2010

PROLIFERATION OF

VERTICAL SOLUTIONSPROLIFERATION OF

VERTICAL SOLUTIONS

CONTRASTING WITH THE

WEB OPENNESSCONTRASTING WITH THE

WEB OPENNESS

TWO STRONG AND CLOSED ECOSYSTEMS

PROMOTING ACCESS THROUGH THE APPS

WHICH ARE CONTROLLED BY

THEIR STORESWHICH ARE CONTROLLED BY

THEIR STORES

NO FLASH, NO OTHER BROWSERS, NO EBOOK STORES,

etc.

NO FLASH, NO OTHER BROWSERS, NO EBOOK STORES,

etc.

… WHILE PREVENTING OTHERS COMPETING …

… AND BANNING CONTENT

AROUND 25 OTHER ATTEMPTS HAVE FAILED BEFORE

WHY?COMMITEES, CLOSENESS, COST, CONTENT

WHY?COMMITEES, CLOSENESS, COST, CONTENT

A COUPLE OF CRAZY GUYS COME UP WITH AN IDEA

A COUPLE OF CRAZY GUYS COME UP WITH AN IDEA

END OF 2010

AT THE END OF THE DAY MOST OF THE APPS ARE JUST ACCESSING THE WEBAT THE END OF THE DAY MOST OF THE APPS ARE JUST ACCESSING THE WEB

WHAT IF THE ALTERNATIVE IS JUST THE MOBILE WEB?

HTML5 IS BASED ON OPEN STANDARDS

NOT CONTROLLED BY

ANYONENOT CONTROLLED BY

ANYONE

AVAILABLE AND PORTABLE

DEVELOP JUST FOR THE WEB

DEVELOP JUST FOR THE WEB

NOT STARTING FROM THE SCRATCH

THE CATALYST: A 100% HTML5 OS

THE OPEN WEB DEVICETHE OPEN WEB DEVICE

DeviceDevice

KernelKernel

APIsAPIs

Native APIs-based UXNative APIs-based UX

Web Browser / PlatformWeb Browser / Platform

DeviceDevice

KernelKernel

Web Engine / APIsWeb Engine / APIs

Web-Based UX /

Web Content

Web-Based UX /

Web Content

“TYPICAL “ SMARTPHONE

ARCHITECTURE

NEW HTML5-PHONE

ARCHITECTURE

Zero single-vendor APIs: Fully

Open Standard Based

Based in already existing

drivers (e.g. Android drivers):

Low portability effort

Fully Web-based Experience:

Simple UX creation process

BRINGING FULL BROWSING

EXPERIENCE TO CHEAP DEVICES

BASED ON THIS ARCHITECTURE IS

DIFFICULT

LESS IS MORE: REMOVING A

LAYER AND HENCE IMPROVING

SCALABILITY ACROSS DIFFERENT

DEVICE TIERS

Working with multiple chipset

vendors and OEMs

KEY IDEA: THE THINNER, THE BETTER

BEGINNING OF 2011

FIRST PROTOTYPE (BASED ON WEBKIT)

FIRST PROTOTYPE (BASED ON WEBKIT)

Presentation

Web APIs

Core

Capabilities

CSS3

JavaScript

DOM Core

DOM Events

XMLHTML

Web Workers WebStorage

WebSockets

Video

SVG

XHR

Geolocation

Orientation

IndexedDB

Audio

What the formal

HTML5 spec includes

is only this subset.

The rest is part of

other specifications

NEEDED TO EXPAND HTML5

LOTS OF MISSING APISLOTS OF MISSING APIS

LET’S TRY TO DO IT IN WEBKIT?

My sense is that WebKit should not implement

calendar or the other related device APIs at this

time. Instead, we should address these use cases

using the more extensible, web-friendly URL-

based approach. (1)

GOOGLE REPLY TO SAMSUNG SUGGESTION TO ADD A CALENDAR API FOR WEBKIT

GOOGLE REPLY TO SAMSUNG SUGGESTION TO ADD A CALENDAR API FOR WEBKIT

(1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg16064.html

0

5000

10000

15000 11940

6821

2372486 1738

Apple

42

Google

31

Nokia

9

RIM

7

Others

14

Contributions to WebKit (Nov’10-Nov’11) Number of WebKit Reviewers (Nov’11)

WEBKIT INCLUDES ALL THE COMPONENTS REQUIRED TO BUILD A BROWSER

...powered by WebKit

ALTHOUGH OPEN SOURCE, IT IS DE-FACTO “GOVERNED” BY TWO COMPANIES

IS WEBKIT REALLY OPEN?

NEEDED AN ALTERNATIVENEEDED AN

ALTERNATIVE

25TH JULY 2011ANDREAS GAL FIRST

POST ABOUT B2GANDREAS GAL FIRST

POST ABOUT B2G

2ND AUGUST 2011

TURNING POINTTURNING POINT

Then… why HTML5 has not happened?

• Poor performance of mobile browsers (WebKit) compared to native apps in iOS or Android (Apple and Google are main contributors to WebKit and are not incentivize to improve it)

• Lack of offline capabilities for Web apps (we cannot assume always on connectivity on mobile)

• Lack of APIs to access device resources (GPS, Camera, commsstack, device sensors, etc)

• Lack of powerful authoring and development tools

• Lack of discoverability tools for users and monetization model for developers (i.e. AppStores) compared to native platforms

THE BEST POSSIBLE PARTNER…

TO ACHIEVE OUR TARGETSTO ACHIEVE OUR TARGETS

WE FELL IN LOVE!WE FELL IN LOVE!

PARIS… AND WENT TO PARIS

END OF 2011

FIRST PROTOTYPE BASED ON B2G

FIRST PROTOTYPE BASED ON B2G

MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTPUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT

MWC

Boot2Gecko is

announced

Mozilla & Telefónicaagree on working in

only OS Version

ZTE Open is released by TEF Spain

TEF Digital Investors Day

1st Public Demo B2G becomes

Firefox OS

MWC

OEMs and Carriers

commitment

ONE YEAR TO DELIVER A NEW MOBILE OS

FEB

2012

MAY

2012

JULY

2012FEB

2013

JULY

2013

SEPT

2013

Mozilla dogfooding

program starts

APRIL

2013

GeeksphoneLaunch

DONE BY A GREAT TEAM

WORKING REALLY HARD

WHY DO WE LOVE FIREFOX OS?

OPENNESSOPENNESS

TELEFÓNICA DIGITAL REAL

INVOLVEMENT IN THE ACTUAL

DEVELOPMENT OF FIREFOX OS

TELEFÓNICA DIGITAL REAL

INVOLVEMENT IN THE ACTUAL

DEVELOPMENT OF FIREFOX OS

BEST KEPT SECRET

I MEAN REALLY OPEN

(1) https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/graphs/contributors

8 OF 20 TOP CONTRIBUTORS WORK FOR TELEFÓNICA (1)

8 OF 20 TOP CONTRIBUTORS WORK FOR TELEFÓNICA (1)

I MEAN REALLY, REALLY OPEN

5 MODULE OWNERS AND 10 PEERS (1)

5 MODULE OWNERS AND 10 PEERS (1)

(1) https://wiki.mozilla.org/Modules/FirefoxOS

LET ME SHOW YOU SOME FACES AND NAMES

LET ME SHOW YOU SOME FACES AND NAMES

DON’T BELIEVE ME YET?

LEAD DEVELOPERRESPONSIBLE FOR SECURITY

LEAD DEVELOPERRESPONSIBLE FOR SECURITY

ANTONIO AMAYA

PEER OF FIRST TIME EXPERIENCE

PEER OF FIRST TIME EXPERIENCE

FERNANDO CAMPO

PEER OF CONTACTSAUTHOR OF FACEBOOK SYNC

PEER OF CONTACTSAUTHOR OF FACEBOOK SYNC

JOSE MANUEL CANTERA

AUTHOR OF APIS TO CONTROL DATA CONSUMPTION, OPERATOR

VARIANT DEVELOPER

AUTHOR OF APIS TO CONTROL DATA CONSUMPTION, OPERATOR

VARIANT DEVELOPER

ALBERT CRESPELL

PEER OF DIALER, RADIO INTERFACE LAYER AND SYSTEM

PEER OF DIALER, RADIO INTERFACE LAYER AND SYSTEM

FERNANDO JIMÉNEZ

DEVELOPER OF OPERATOR VARIANT

DEVELOPER OF OPERATOR VARIANT

CARMEN JIMÉNEZ

OWNER OF CONTACTS, MESSAGING AND FIRST TIME

EXPERIENCE APPS

OWNER OF CONTACTS, MESSAGING AND FIRST TIME

EXPERIENCE APPS

FRANCISCO JORDANO

MAIN DEVELOPER OF PUSH NOTIFICATION SERVER

L14N EXPERT

MAIN DEVELOPER OF PUSH NOTIFICATION SERVER

L14N EXPERT

GUILLERMO LÓPEZ

MAIN DEVELOPER OF NETWORK SETTINGS,

CLIENT PROVISIONING, OPERATOR VARIANT….

MAIN DEVELOPER OF NETWORK SETTINGS,

CLIENT PROVISIONING, OPERATOR VARIANT….

JOSE ANTONIO OLIVERA

DEVELOPMENT FOR PUSH SERVER AND CLIENT

DEVELOPMENT FOR PUSH SERVER AND CLIENT

MARIO PIERRE LOUIS

SALVADOR DE LA PUENTE

USAGE/COST CONTROL OWNERUSAGE/COST CONTROL OWNER

HOMESCREEN MAIN DEVELOPER AND OWNER

HOMESCREEN MAIN DEVELOPER AND OWNER

CRISTIAN RODRÍGUEZ

AUTHOR OF STK IMPLEMENTATION AND SETTINGS PEER

AUTHOR OF STK IMPLEMENTATION AND SETTINGS PEER

FERNANDO RODRÍGUEZ

COST CONTROL DEVELOPERCOST CONTROL DEVELOPER

MARINA RODRÍGUEZ

PEER OF MESSAGING & FIRST TIME EXPERIENCEPEER OF MESSAGING &

FIRST TIME EXPERIENCE

BORJA SALGUERO

MAIN DEVELOPER OF DIALERMAIN DEVELOPER OF DIALER

GERMÁN TORO

BEYOND DEVELOPMENT…

UX, QA, PM…UX, QA, PM…

TELEPHONY, SMS, VIBRATION,

NOTIFICATION, PUSH, SETTINGS,

CONNECTION, GEOLOCATION,

DEVICE STORAGE, BATTERY,

ALARM, FM RADIO, CALENDAR,

USB, CAMERA, WEB ACTIVITIES…

WE ENABLED WHAT OTHERS PUSHED BACK

EXAMPLES OF ADDED APIS

EXAMPLES OF ADDED APIS

IN ORDER TO MAKE OUR DREAM A REALITY…

… FINALLY THE BABY WAS BORN

… OK, MAYBE SOME MORE

AND YET MORE TO COME…

AND YET MORE TO COME…

12.9.2013 3.3.2014 5.26.20149.16.2013

Start

Development

Feature

Complete

V1.3.0

Stabilized

V1.3.1

6 weeksmaintenance

Security

Update

V1.3.2

Security

Update

V1.3.3

Security

Update

V1.3.4

1.3

4.14.2014 7.7.2014

12 weeksStabilization + Convergence

12 weeksDevelopment Time

12 weeksIOT + Production

Start

Development

Feature

Complete

V1.4.0

Stabilized

V1.4.1

6 weeksmaintenance

Security

Update

V1.4.2

Security

Update

V1.4.3

Security

Update

V1.4.4


12 weeksDevelopment Time


1.4

Feature

Complete

V1.3.0

Stabilized

V1.3.1

6 weeksmaintenance

Security

Update

V1.3.2

Security

Update

V1.3.3

Security

Update

V1.3.4



1.2

CS

BECAUSE FIREFOX OS IS CONTINUOUSLY EVOLVING

AND FULLY ALIGNED WITH FIREFOX FOR DESKTOP

BASED ON https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/Roadmap

V1.1 MAIN NEW FEATURES

FEATURES NOT INCLUDED IN PREVIOUS VERSION

Direct access from the landing page

Homescreen: New landing page including the smart search bar

� Search allows users to input a

search term ("query") and fill

the screen with related apps

� These results include installed

apps, web apps, and

download suggestions from

Firefox' Marketplace.

V1.1

Push : New Operator friendly Push technology

FirefoxOS is improving the state of the art of PUSH technologies

� Efficient: Mobile network friendly by avoiding Keep-Alive and open

connections improving the performance

� Cost efficient to deploy notification server:

Easy to use

� Open and standard solution (W3C, OMA) based on

web technologies

� No developer registration: reduces developer

deployment costs

� User is notified in the homescreen

� The notifications are shown in the notification

center

V1.1

Communications: Messaging

UI Refresh and new features

� Direct access to the

Dialer/Email/Browser from a message

� Multi-recipient support

Multimedia Messaging

� Image, audio, video files support

� Media files attached from: video,

music, camera, gallery and wallpaper

� Media files preview/ deletion

� Auto retrieve (download) option

V1.1

Communications: Enriched contacts

Import contacts from

SD card, Gmail &

Outlook

Import contacts from

SD card, Gmail &

Outlook

Contact suggestions in

the dialer

Contact suggestions in

the dialer

Add contacts details (phone number, email…) from

a message, the call log or an email

Add contacts details (phone number, email…) from

a message, the call log or an email

V1.1

Productivity: Browser & E-mail

Email

� Attachments support

� Send images from the gallery,

wallpaper and camera

� New media supported for received

attachments: videos and music

� Draft support

Browser

� HTTP download support

� Download content by tap & hold: images,

video & music

V1.1

Other improvements

Improved file system support

� Enable users to store files in the internal memory

(for devices with large internal memory)

Music

� Searching songs, players, albums…

Task Manager

� UI Refresh

Keyboard: Improved performance

� New algorithm for text prediction and correction

V1.1


FEATURES NOT INCLUDED IN PREVIOUS VERSION*

Major changes in the core of the platform

New platform (Gecko) version

� Gecko 26 instead of Gecko 18

� Almost a year of development (changes from Firefox 18 to

Firefox 26)

� Several improvements in performance and stability

and new features

Gaia

UI (WebApps)

Gecko

Application (Web)Runtime

Gonk

Linux Kernel

We can see 1.2 as FFOS v2.0 release!!!

V1.2

Communications: Dialer and call new features

Improved dialer design

� Incoming call design: removing bouncing effect

� Redial last number from dialer or BT headset

New supplementary services

� Fixed dialing number (FDN) support

� Conference calling support

� More supplementary services support:

� Calling Line Identification Restriction (CLIR)

� Call Barring support

� Call Hold and Call Waiting improvements

V1.2

Communications: Contacts and messaging

Messaging

� Silent SMS for Carrier Billing authentication

� Landscape mode support for messaging application (*)

Contacts: Enhanced contacts management

� Bluetooth contacts sharing based in VCARD

� Export contacts to the USIM and media card

� Better support for importing contacts (cancel importing,

performance improvements…)

� Duplicate contacts management

� Passive mode: Search for duplicate contacts automatically

while importing from any source and merge

� Active mode (User interaction required): Search for

duplicate contacts from contact details and

adding/modifying contact windows and merge if users

agree)

V1.2

(*) GREY Still pending based on robustness criteria

System:

Customization management: Single variant

� Runtime Customization by SIM of App Preloads

� Runtime Customization by SIM of Bookmark, Preloaded

Contacts, Support Contacts, Data Settings, Messaging

Settings, Cell Broadcast Settings, Default Language and

Voicemail

Platform enhancement

� Graphics: Multi-resolution support (WVGA, qHD)

� Audio: CE Audio volume warning

� IME framework for enabling 3rd party keyboards installation

and management

� Notifications: Enable developers for closing/replacing

notifications

� Do not track 3 state setting to either “Do not track my

actions”, “I allow tracking”, or “I don’t have a preference”

� Persona on first run

V1.2

(*) GREY: Still pending based on robustness criteria

Productivity:

Email

� Email notifications support

� Direct access to the email from the notification

� Notifications grouping

� Email sync internal settings

� Enhanced attachment management

� Email improvements: Message body format

V1.2


Other features

Media

� Music player status on the status bar

� Microphone API to enable voice recording, talking,

dictation.. Applications

� Speakerout on FM Radio

Browser

� Enhanced responsiveness/rendering

Telephony and connectivity

� Wi-Fi/hybrid aGPS positioning

� CDMA support

� OMA CP

� WAP Push

� SIMTK improvements

� Bluetooth A2DP and AVRCP support

V1.2



FEATURES NOT INCLUDED IN PREVIOUS VERSION

Main change: Starting Haida

November

2013

December

2013

January

2014

February

2014

October

2013

September

2013

1.3 � Edge gestures (Apps into sheets)

� Browser Integration into System

� E.me homescreen integration

� MWC demo

March 2014 April 2014 May 2014

1.4 � Rocketbar (phase 1)

� New Homescreen

1.5 � Boosted Rocketbar

� Search into e.me and

Marketplace

� Search among exposed

Datastores

� Opensearch

� In-apps navigation with sheets

� Replaceable Homescreen

� Customizable Lockscreen

� New UI

This version will activate the full

Haida concept.

Radically different user experience

V1.3

But also some others big changes in the platform

CDMA

� Enabling FxFOS for CDMA devices

Datastores API

� Allow an application to create data that can be shared with multiple other applications

� Allow multiple applications supply data to the same data store

� Support read-only stores like facebook contacts.

� Support read/write stores like built-in contacts.

� Support keeping an application-local cache of a data store. I.e. enable getting notified about

changes to a data store so that the local cache can be kept up-to-date.

V1.3

Communications

SIM

� Dual SIM Dual Standby (DSDS) basic support

SMS/MMS work completion

� MMS Subject support

� Draft mode support for SMS/MMS

� MMS/SMS delivery reports

� MMS/SMS forwarding

� Send MMS to email

Messaging

� Share web activity support in SMS/MMS: Share content with SMS/MMS

� Landscape mode support

� Display the received and sent time inside the SMS/MMS box

� MMS support for VCard + VCal

V1.3


Communications

Dialer

� Dialing directly from the call log

� Information screen when a call is finished

� Silence an incoming call with power button press

� Call length on call log

� Change call log length (based in number of days)

� Call Barring notification

Notification handling

� Dialer, SMS and MMS using the notification framework

Contacts

� Delete multiple contacts

� Datastore API integration

� Support sharing of contacts via NFC

� Undo contacts merge

V1.3


System

Customization management: Single variant

� More customizable settings (Wi-Fi profile, ringtones, start up animation…)

Download Manager

� Manage downloaded files: Open, delete…

� Manage file download process (view progress, cancel…)

Identity

� Integration with Firefox Account

� First Time Usage login

� Firefox Account in settings

Storage

� SD card formatting

� Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) support

� Easy access to available options when connected to USB

Others

� Notification progress indicator: Enable developers to display a progress indicator

� Improved offline support

V1.3


SystemKeyboard

� Dynamic hit states

� Improved input cursor movement

� Text selection

� Copy & Paste (text)

Bluetooth

� Improved Bluetooth support (BlueDroid porting)

� Inline pairing supported

� Framework for 3rd parties to add new profiles

� Human Interface Device Profile (HID) support

� Multiple file transfer support

� Easy to use Bluetooth settings

Others

� Gaia improvements: New Windows Manager, app modularization…

� FOTA improvements

� IMEI control, Update message, error handling,

V1.3


Multimedia

Camera

� Autofocus

� Zoom in/out

� Flash

� Multi-resolution support: Camera capture size settings

� Camera viewfinder cropping

� Image size in camera viewfinder

� Front/rear swap camera support

� Self timer

Gallery

� Rename/view file info

� Folders support: Automatically sort content into folders giving options such

as month, place, file size or file type

� Image rotation support

� Slideshow mode support

� Edit images directly from the Gallery

� Automatic Image Enhancement

V1.3

Multimedia:

Video

� Folders support

� Visual warning when recording with low battery

Music

� Access to music controls in notifications tray and lock screen

� External Album art support

Platform enhancement

� Video recording

� System wide volume control

� RTSP

� Opus support

WebRTC

� WebRTC-Audio support

� WebRTC-p2p support

� WebRTC-streaming support

� Video PeerConnection calls

� WebRTC + AudioRecording/VideoRecording

V1.3

Productivity:

Email

� POP3 support

� Asynchronous Email Send

� Advance to next/previous message from within

message

V1.3

Other features

Telephony and connectivity

� EAP-SIM

� WPA-EAP support

� Seamless streaming network handoff

� NFC platform support

Graphics

� Azure/Moz2D

Browser

� Performance enhancements

� Specifying order of default bookmarks

� Update URL bar and navigation chrome UX

� Add view menu to toolbar

� Download improvements

� Integration into System

� Removal of About page in Browser

� Reader Mode

V1.3


… BUT WE NEED MORE

WE NEED YOU!WE NEED YOU!

FIREFOX OS ROADMAP RELIES ON COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTION

FIREFOX OS RELIES ON COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTIONS

FIREFOX OS RELIES ON COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTIONS

YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE TO THE OS

… OR CREATE APPS

… YOU CAN DISTRIBUTE THEM IN THE MARKET

https://marketplace.mozilla.org

… OR ON YOUR OWN

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/Apps.install

... ONE MORE THING…

WE LOVE THE WEB TOO

IT IS NOT ONLY ABOUT FIREFOX OS

IT IS NOT ONLY ABOUT FIREFOX OS

MacOS

REMEMBER

THE WEB IS THE PLATFORM!

Michael Schneider Telefónica I+D

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