Apps Articles
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Building A Paid App For Firefox OS
At first glance the Firefox Marketplace for Firefox OS may look similar to the Apple Store or Google Play Store but there is a key difference: it does not lock you into Mozilla or lock you into your Firefox OS phone. It enables you to sell a web app that will run on any open […]
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Desktop Apps with HTML5 and the Mozilla Web Runtime
Desktop Apps with HTML5 One of the best things about HTML is that it’s never “done”. HTML has been with us longer than most of the development technologies that we consider commonplace. (.NET, ASP, Java, PHP, etc.) The latest incarnation of HTML, HTML5 has been the source of a great deal of buzz in the […]
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Mozilla Labs Apps Developer Preview and documentation are here!
The Mozilla Labs Apps project The Mozilla Labs Apps project enters a new phase with today’s launch of the Apps Developer Preview and App Development documentation in the Apps Developer Community on MDN. The tools and resources in the MDN Apps Developer Community documentation enable developers to create rich, cross-platform and cross-device app experiences […]
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Firefox OS Apps run on Android
At Mozilla we believe that apps and browsing are best viewed as cooperative and symbiotic, each better when working together. We are working to strengthen that relationship by building an apps ecosystem that is built using the Web technologies that so many developers are already familiar with. We built Firefox OS as a mobile OS […]
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App basics for Firefox OS – a screencast series to get you started
Over the next few days we’ll release a series of screencasts explaining how to start your first Open Web App and develop for Firefox OS. Each of the screencasts is terse enough to watch in a short break and the whole series should not take you more than an hour of your time. The series […]
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Wanted: Awesome HTML5 app ports for Firefox OS & the Open Web
A bit of background In 2013, Mozilla and our partners launched Firefox OS in fourteen markets. We released three Firefox OS smartphone models and a Geeksphone developer preview device. Our Developer Relations team hosted eight invite-only workshops for app developers around the world: Mountain View, London, Madrid, Bogota, Warsaw, Porto Alegre, Guadalajara, and Budapest. This […]
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Launching developer Q&A on Stack Overflow
One thing that is very important for us at Mozilla is the need to directly interact with you developers and help you with challenges and issues while developing using open technologies. We are now happy to announce our presence on Stack Overflow! Stack Overflow is one of – if not the – most well-known question […]
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Testing Your Native Android App
It’s an interesting time to be a web developer! For years Apps have been eating the web and now we are seeing the Web eat the OS. Mozilla is pushing for a world where you can write standards-based, Open Web Apps. These apps should install as native apps and just work, regardless of the platform. […]
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Implementing In-App Payments in Your Firefox OS App
At Mozilla, we have been working on bringing payments to the web. We think it is important that developers have an easy way to monetize their apps. It also gives us the chance to offer deeper platform integration, allowing things like carrier billing in addition to credit/debit cards. We’ve talked about in-app payments before in […]
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Building a Firefox OS App for my favorite Internet radio station
I recently created a Firefox OS app for my favourite radio station — radio paradise. It was a lot of fun making this app, so I thought it would be good to share some notes about how I built it. The audio tag It started by implementing the main functionality of the app, playing an […]