Articles by Frédéric Harper
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Upgrading your ZTE Open to Firefox 1.1 or 1.2 (fastboot enabled)
If you are a ZTE Open owner, you may have already upgraded to Firefox OS 1.1 following the instructions from our previous post. If so, you probably realized that the latest build from ZTE had a problem: fastboot wasn’t enabled anymore. For those of you who didn’t upgrade because of that, ZTE has put a […]
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Upgrading your ZTE Open to Firefox OS 1.1
The US and the European versions of the ZTE Open both ship with version 1.0 of Firefox OS. Since an over the air (OTA) update is not yet available for the phone, ZTE recently posted a build and instructions on how to flash the phone with Firefox OS 1.1, the latest released version of the […]
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Protecting your Firefox OS App code
One question we get asked quite often about developing web applications using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, is about how to conceal code. Reasons range from preventing cheating, protecting intellectual property, hiding encryption algorithms and others. Since JavaScript is executed on the client side, even on Firefox OS, the users can get access the code if […]
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Make your Firefox OS app feel alive with video and audio
Firefox OS applications aren’t just about text: there is no better way to make your app feel alive than adding some videos or audio to it. Let’s explore different ways we can use as developers to enhance our mobile masterpiece. Audio and video HTML tags Since we are talking about HTML, it makes total sense […]
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Who moved my geolocation?
One of the questions we often get when we are talking about Firefox OS is: “What about the GPS on some devices”? You may have noticed that on some devices, the GPS position is not quite accurate or can take a long time to report even when you are outside. Let me start by explaining […]
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Updating and Tweaking your Firefox OS Developer Preview phone/Geeksphone
Developer Preview editions of the Firefox OS phone are now becoming widely available to the community, mainly through Geeksphone. Since these are for developers, naturally we want to encourage you to tinker and play with them as much as possible! In this post we will cover some basic tips on how to keep your phone […]
