The AMP Project Roadmap

What was accomplished

• Video performance bug fixes
• amp-story-reaction refactoring in preparation for new components (quizzes, polls) and finalizing API.
• Animation investigation for amp-story-reaction
• Refactoring of LocalizationService
• Ability to override story language via an attribute at the player level (wip).
• amp-story-player
• Load stories inside the player from the AMP cache of the publisher's choice. This is specified as an amp-cache attribute in the player tag. (e.g. amp-cache="cdn.ampproject.org")
• Progress on programmatic API hooks for publishers to use (onReady, loadStory, etc..)
• Scoping work for entry points to the player (upcoming interns project).

What's next

• Backend for amp-story-reaction.
• Implementation of animations for amp-story-reaction.
• Launch API for programmatic control of the amp-story-player.

What was accomplished

• Last launch-blocking tweaks for remote URLs in page attachments
• Bugfixes for story education, auto-advance
• Update amp-geo documentation to mark as usable within stories
• Allow single-tap links in <amp-story-grid-layer> if they are within the bottom-most 20% of the viewport (with publisher opt-in)

What's next

• Validation and documentation for remote URLs in page attachments
• Validation and documentation for single-tap links in <amp-story-grid-layer>
• Allow loading stories in the player from the cache
• JS APIs for open source web player
• Adding play/pause controls to the system layer on desktop
• Exploratory work on quiz improvements

What was accomplished

• Fixes for auto-advancing based on audio
• Pull request out for remote page attachments
• Story education mostly complete
• Fixes for style isolation

What's next

• Moving amp-story-player to a custom element
• Allow loading stories from the cache in the player
• Design of player JS API
• Continuing video performance design

What was accomplished

• Support swiping in amp-story-player
• Prototypes of loading remote URLs on swipe up
• Started work on story education

What's next

• Loading stories from the cache in amp-story-player
• Productionize loading remote URLs on swipe up
• Viewer messaging for story education
• Spec out auto-advancing previews

What was accomplished

• Filed intent-to-deprecate: amp-story-bookend
• Filed intent-to-deprecate: amp-sidebar within amp-story
• Player
• Rolled out to production
• Documentation launched
• Navigation and tap-to-next story are in beta
• Quizzes
  • Options to customize quizzes, including theme, chip corner, chip style, accent color, prompt and option text color
• Fix for --story-page-vh and --story-page-vw being incorrect sometimes on desktop

Lessons learned

• It's not always clear which features should exist at the format level and which should exist at the player level

What's next

• Player
  • Swipe-to-next story
  • Sandboxing of iframes
• Story format onboarding and user education
• Kickstarting discussions around remote URLs in page attachments
• Examples for workarounds for sidebars/bookends

What was accomplished

• Viewer (amp-story-player)
• Renamed to public-facing name amp-story-player
• Initial styling for viewer before JS is loaded
• Quiz
• Displaying percentages for options
• Animations for bar filling
• Video
• Investigated performance of video formats: MP4, WEBM (VP9)
• Investigated bitrates to use
• Prototyped using navigator.connection.downlink to determine throughput
• Other
• Removed 1px border that sometimes showed up on 3-panel desktop experience
• Corrected initial position for inactive pages on 3-panel desktop experience to improve animation

Lessons learned

• Test in Safari!

What's next

• Viewer (amp-story-player)
• Launch of single-story experience
• Developer documentation and usage examples
• Quiz
• RTL for percentage animations
• Resolve Safari bug where entrance animation for options is not triggered
• Internationalization of (a), (b), (c), and (d) options
• Accessibility review (e.g. roles on interactive options)
• Documentation of next steps for validation
• Video
• Create prototype to test on different phones