Apps Articles
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Introducing node-firefox
NOTE: we presented this project last Sunday at FOSDEM, but not everyone could make it to Brussels, so here’s a post explaining what node-firefox is and how can it help you superturbocharge your Firefox OS app development! At Mozilla we’re always looking for ways in which we can make developers’ lives easier. When aspiring app […]
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Creating a mobile app from a simple HTML site
This article is a simple tutorial designed to teach you some fundamental skills for creating cross platform web applications. You will build a sample School Plan app, which will provide a dynamic “app-like” experience across many different platforms and work offline. It will use Apache Cordova and Mozilla’s Brick web components. The story behind the […]
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The Missing SDK For Hybrid App Development
Hybrid vs. native: The debate has gone on, and will go on, for ages. Each form of app development has its pros and cons, and an examination of the key differences between the two methods reveals that a flat correlation is like comparing apples to oranges. Many hybrid app developers understand that they’re not starting […]
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Introducing fxpay for in-app payments
A while ago Mozilla announced navigator.mozPay() for accepting payments on Firefox OS. This was our first step toward helping developers do commerce on the web. It solved the problem of processing payments but what about the rest? Today we’re announcing an early peek at fxpay, a library for the rest of what you need as […]
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Enabling Voice Input into the Open Web and Firefox OS
With the advent of smartphones triggered by iPhone in 2007, Touch became the primary mode of input for interacting with these devices. And now with the advent of wearables (and other hands-free technologies that existed before), Voice is becoming another key method of input. The possibilities of experiences Voice Input enables are huge, to say […]
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Webapplate – Maintainable web app template for Firefox OS and Chrome Apps
There are many powerful tools and technologies surrounding the Web, and we can reuse them to develop cross platform mobile and desktop apps, especially in light of installable apps appearing on platforms such as Firefox OS. This article looks at the best way to do this, and presents Webapplate, a powerful new template to help […]
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PhoneGap Developer App preview for Firefox OS
The cross-platform team at Mozilla is always looking for ways to improve how developers build apps with open web standards. We consider Cordova and PhoneGap to be great tools to achieve that. We are excited to work on improving support for PhoneGap by getting the PhoneGap Developer App into Firefox OS. The PhoneGap Developer App […]
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Launching Open Web Apps feedback channels – help us make the web better!
About three months ago we launched a feedback channel for the Firefox Developer Tools, and since it was a great success, we’re happy announce a new one for Open Web Apps! For Developer Tools, we have, and keep on getting, excellent suggestions at http://mzl.la/devtools, which has lead to features coming from ideas there being implemented […]
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Time to get hacking – Introducing Rec Room
It’s no secret that the best frameworks and tools are extracted, not created out of thin air. Since launching Firefox OS, Mozilla has been approached by countless app developers and web developers with a simple question: “How do I make apps for Firefox OS?” The answer: “It’s the web; use existing web technologies.” was—and still […]
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Turn your Facebook page into a Firefox OS mobile app
Whether you are a business or community page owner, what would be better than increasing your page reachability by offering your standalone mobile app? Apptuter is an open source framework to help you achieve that, with minimum coding knowledge and easy to follow steps you would be able to produce your own app. The framework […]