Apps Articles
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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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r2d2b2g: an experimental prototype Firefox OS test environment
Developers building apps for Firefox OS should be able to test them without having to deploy them to actual devices. I looked into the state of the art recently and found that the existing desktop test environments, like B2G Desktop, the B2G Emulators, and Firefox’s Responsive Design View, are either difficult to configure or significantly […]
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Better integration for open web apps on Android
Up until now, developing web apps on mobile has been a little tricky. After spending the time developing your app, getting your users to install it is difficult, especially when the concept of “installing a web app” is not very well defined. The most popular method is synonymous with adding a shortcut to the homescreen. […]
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Phones for Apps for Firefox OS
Update: Today, Wednesday, June 19, we began inviting app developers with winning Firefox OS app proposals to join the Phones for Apps program. We will begin shipping Geeksphones to app developers who’ve committed to building and porting apps for Firefox OS. Congratulations. Thanks to everyone who participated by sending a proposal. The open mobile web […]
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Introducing navigator.mozPay() For Web Payments
What’s wrong with payments on the web? Any website can already host a shopping cart and take credit card payments or something similar. The freedom of today’s web supports many business models. Here’s what’s wrong: Users cannot choose how to pay; they have to select from one of the pre-defined options. In most cases, the […]
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Calling All Porters: Phones for App Ports to Firefox OS
Back in May we launched a program for app developers called Phones for Apps for Firefox OS. We heard from thousands of developers in all corners of the world– thank you for your overwhelming interest. Since then we’ve shipped out heaps of Geeksphone Keon Firefox OS Developer Preview phones and we’ve listed many new apps […]
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Announcing the prototype Firefox OS Simulator
Firefox OS (and the Boot2Gecko (B2G) project on which it is based) has been written about extensively on Hacks already, but the brief summary is that Mozilla is building a mobile phone operating system where the whole user interface is built on web technology (HTML, CSS and JavaScript). Part of the magic in making that […]
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Progress report on cross-platform Open Web Apps
Here in the Hacks blog we’ve written a lot about building apps for Firefox OS using HTML, JS, and CSS. We’re working to ensure that those same apps can also run on Android, Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux devices. If your app can adapt to those screen sizes, CPU’s, and device capabilities, then we’ve […]
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Firefox OS for developers – the platform HTML5 deserves
Over the next few weeks we will publish a series of short videos here that explain what Firefox OS means for developers and how you can be part of the revolution it brings to the world. In various conversations we’ve repeatedly heard from developers that they view Firefox OS as simply a third player in […]
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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 […]