Apps Articles
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Join Us for Firefox OS App Days
If you’re a developer interested in web technologies, I’d like to invite you to participate in Firefox OS App Days, a worldwide set of 20+ hack days organized by Mozilla to help you get started developing apps for Firefox OS. At each App Day event, you’ll have the opportunity to learn, hack and celebrate Firefox OS, […]
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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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HTML out of the Browser
Amongst my friends, I’m known as something of a Star Wars nerd. My longtime nick has been cfjedimaster (a combination of two passions, the other being ColdFusion), I work in a room packed to the gills with Star Wars toys, and I’ve actually gotten inked up twice now with Star Wars tats. That being said, […]
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Getting started with Open Web Apps – why and how
We’ve been talking a lot about Open Web Apps, Firefox OS and more here lately, and I wanted to cover both how to get started, and, maybe more importantly, why. Why a web app? If we look at the climate for mobile development, it has usually come down to a choice where developers had to […]
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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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Announcing Firefox OS App Workshops
Madrid, Bogotá, Warsaw & Beyond Firefox OS phones will be available to consumers in several countries this summer, and they will be looking for great apps to install from Firefox Marketplace. If you know how to build mobile app experiences with HTML5 and JavaScript, we’re looking for you—especially if you’d like to develop apps in […]
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Writing Web Apps Quickly With Mortar
With the introduction of Firefox OS, development of an open apps marketplace, and a push to implement powerful web APIs for closer hardware integration, Mozilla is serious about web apps. We believe that the web can deliver an experience similar to native apps, even on mobile. We can’t forget about the most important piece, however: […]
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Powerful tools for developing Web Apps
In the recent years, web development changed drastically. The emergence of the mobile web and the new form factor of smart phones created the demand for different solutions than the former desktop-only web. Since then a lot of frameworks and tools have been created, with new ones being added almost weekly. Now, we web developers […]