Native Mobile current focus areas

[hypest]

This ticket tries to capture the items that the native mobile folks are currently working on. This also serves as the async project update for the weekly #core-editor meeting on Make.

🔎 Main focus

• Quality improvements
• Platform improvements
• Release process improvements

🛠️ Recently fixed or improved

• Appium 2 Migration
• Social Icons: Ensure inactive icons are visible with block-based themes
• Synced Patterns: Ensure title is always visible
• Appium 2 Migration - Updating more utils
• Update E2E test utils
• Improve Screen recording on Android for Appium 2
• Classic block: Add option to convert to blocks
• Update closePicker util and updates Image Block test data
• Update E2E test documentation
• Remove wd usage and removes disabled tests
• Improve E2E test consistency
• Ignore generated Android files
• E2E Tests - Utils - Update typeString
• Update E2E Simulators
• E2E Tests Update usage of touchPerform

[hypest]

Updated the parent post with the current list of recently fixed/improved items.

[hypest]

Updated parent post with:

🔎 Main focus

++ Address content uploading issues

🛠️ Recently fixed or improved

++ #38225
++ wordpress-mobile/gutenberg-mobile#4545

[hypest]

Updated parent post with:

🔎 Main focus
++ Scoping the Drag and Drop project

🛠️ Recently fixed or improved

++ Upgrade react-native-video and drop jetifier on Android
++ Fix Custom Palette colors and support multiple origins and theme cache issues
++ Fix Jest module name mapper for WP packages that use Typescript
++ Highlight text: Check if style attribute value is defined during filtering

[hypest]

Updated parent post with:

🔎 Main focus

++ Working on the Drag and Drop project

🚀 Recently wrapped items

++ Renamed develop branch gutenberg-mobile to trunk (and old trunk got retired)

🛠️ Recently fixed or improved

++ #38752
++ wordpress-mobile/gutenberg-mobile#4575

[hypest]

Updated parent post with:

🛠️ Recently fixed or improved

++ Gallery block: Add integration tests related to its manual tests
++ Social Icons - Begin Automating Existing Manual Test Cases

[hypest]

Updated parent post with:

🛠️ Recently fixed or improved

++ Prevent unhandled promise rejection warning related to canUser resolver
++ Update gesture handler and reanimated libraries
++ Adding a GIF badge to image blocks with gifs in them
++ Small refinements to upload error message
++ Use internal initializeEditor for integration tests
++ Update list of consents from script

[hypest]

Updated the parent post with:

🔎 Main focus

-- Add more integration tests (by using react-native-testing-library)

🛠️ Recently fixed or improved

++ Pass the ol start and reversed to native RichText too
++ Increase editor ready timeout in Android e2e tests

[mchowning]

Updated the parent post with:

🔎 Main focus

++ Improving the editor's "default view"

🛠️ Recently fixed or improved

• Improved reliability of Audio and File Block tests
• Fixed regression in separator block tests

[hypest]

Updated the parent post with:

🛠️ Recently fixed or improved

++ Fix - Block editor settings mobile endpoint - Add missing global styles has support check

[hypest]

Updated the parent post with:

🚀 Recently wrapped items

++ Address content uploading issues

🛠️ Recently fixed or improved

++ Remove error banners from native media&text and audio blocks
++ Detect GIF during render
++ Fix Custom Palette colors and support multiple origins and theme cache issues.
++ Spacer block: Fix import of MIN_SPACER_SIZE constant
++ More consents to dual-license Gutenberg

[hypest]

Updated the parent post with:

🛠️ Recently fixed or improved
++ Quote block V2 support

[fluiddot]

Updated the parent post with:

🔎 Main focus

++ Bug fixes and polishing items collected from negative app reviews

🚀 Recently wrapped items

++ Improving the editor's "default view"

🛠️ Recently fixed or improved

++ Display 'expanded' inserter when title is selected
++ Updater picker empty list message to match media type (only Android)
++ Set a background color for the toolbar container (only iOS)

[mchowning]

Updated the parent post with:

🛠️ Recently fixed or improved

++ Set "expanded" version of inserter's "add blocks" text to title case