956169 - (gaia-keyboard2) [meta][keyboard refactor] Refactor Latin keyboard

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Keyboard, defect)

Description

[David Flanagan [:djf]]

This is a meta bug for the keyboard refactoring I'm working on. The goals of this refactoring are to:

1) Greatly simplify the code, particularly the rendering code, to improve maintainability.

2) Provide a useful template (and reusable code) for 3rd party keyboard authors

3) Enable dynamic hit target resizing for better typing accuracy

4) Improve overall keyboard responsiveness

Comment 1

[Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] (please needinfo)]

I assume this meta bug representing feature parity of the new keyboard codebase, so I am marking this Sprint 2 accordingly.

Comment 2

[Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] (please needinfo)]

Clearing target milestone to reflect plan change.

Comment 3

[Ivan Tsay (:ITsay)]

Per discussion with PM and engineer, we move this refactoring work to v1.5 due to the resource shortage. Update the whiteboard accordingly.

Comment 4

[Omega Feng [:Omega] [:馮於懋]]

See bug 983043 for the UX spec update.

Comment 5

[howie [:howie]]

on hold, put this after v2.0

Comment 6

[Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] (please needinfo)]

Please note that with bug 1055398 we no longer build demo-keyboard in the eng builds.

The approach after 2.0 was to continue shipping features in the current keyboard while keep refactors. I already have some success in bug 1023729, and we are already working on getting new features in bug 983043 to the current keyboard.

Comment 7

[Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] (please needinfo)]

We should not consider bug 908487 is blocked by this anymore.