Apps Articles
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Hacks Decoded: Adewale Adetona
Adetona Adewale Akeem, more popularly known as iSlimfit, is a Nigeria-born revered digital technologist and marketing expert. He is the co-founder of Menopays, a fintech startup offering another Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) option across Africa. We chatted with him about founding Menopays and the impact of tech solutions developed in Nigeria.
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From game jam to mobile and Firefox OS
I love participating in game jams, where game developers get together to craft games in a very short amount of time. I thought it would be cool to take one of my past Game Jam games, Metal vs Hipsters, and port it to the mobile web and Firefox OS. Adapting to mobile My starting point […]
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Offline Web Apps on GitHub Pages
Service Workers are a response to the problems of Application Cache, and they’re a powerful and elegant way to offline your web app. But they’re also more complex to implement and maintain. Meanwhile, GitHub Pages is a great, simple static host for offline-first apps. But deploying apps to GitHub Pages requires manual configuration, especially if […]
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Firefox OS 2.5 Developer Preview, an experimental Android app
Today we have made Firefox OS 2.5 available worldwide. We are also making an early, experimental build of the OS — Firefox OS 2.5 Developer Preview — available for developers to download on Android devices. This latest version of Firefox OS delivers exciting features including: Add-ons: Just like the add-ons we’ve come to love in […]
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Creating a mobile app from a simple HTML site: Part 4
How to polish your app and prepare it for market In previous sections of this step-by-step series (Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3) we’ve created an app that loads multiple school plans from the server. What we have so far is functional, but still has a number of issues, including two which are major: […]
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Creating a mobile app from a simple HTML site: Part 3
Adding a server to separate the app from its data This is the third part in our series of posts about creating a dynamic mobile app from a simple HTML site. In Part 2 we separated the data from its visual representation, but the data is still contained inside the app. In this article, we […]
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Easier in-app payments with fxpay
For developers building web applications on Firefox OS or Firefox Desktop, supporting payments is easy with Mozilla’s fxpay library. In addition to accepting credit cards, Mozilla’s payment system lets users charge purchases directly to their phone bill in many countries—making it ideal for mobile commerce. Since our first introduction to fxpay the library has received […]
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Creating a mobile app from a simple HTML site: Part 2
Or: Making our simple app work for others In the first part of this series, which began late last year, we worked through the process of developing a school planner app. At this point (see the final code from Part 1) we’ve got multiple school plans displayed at once, and we’ve got Web, iOS and […]
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An analytics primer for developers
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics – Mark Twain Deciding what to track (all the things) When you are adding analytics to a system you should try to log everything. At some point in the future if you need to pull information out of a system it’s much better to […]
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Open Web Apps feedback: Consolidating our channels
In August 2014 we announced the opening of a new feedback channel for web apps on UserVoice. It has led to some good discussions and here are a few highlights: This post showed the importance of the nascent FileSystem API. A suggestion about background services reinforced the need for something like the proposed BackgroundSync API. […]
