Apps Articles
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Gaming and the Mozilla Labs Apps Project
In this post I give a quick overview of the Mozilla Labs Apps project and how it and the other technologies at Mozilla relate to gaming. We really are at a point where amazing games can be created on the Web with nothing but open technologies. A few days ago we launched the developer preview […]
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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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BrazilJS Firefox OS Apps Hack Day: fun, games & JavaScript
BrazilJS Location: Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. A long way from where I live and work in Mountain View, California. BrazilJS—two intense, action-packed days of technology showmanship, conversation, and immersion in the exuberant developer culture of Brazil. And plenty of JavaScript, which sounds something like “Jhavascreep-chi” when pronounced in Brazilian Portuguese. The days […]
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Building applications for Firefox OS using AngularJS
When you start developing for Firefox OS you might be underwhelmed by the tools that are provided. There is no standard UI toolkit, or a JavaScript framework that all apps build on. This is not a situation that’s inherently bad because in essence Firefox OS is the web; and thus gives you complete freedom in […]
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How the Manana app was built
We saw Firefox OS as a great opportunity and a challenge to deliver a product true to the values of open web and best standards. We found it exciting to be able to deliver an app that will offer a smooth UX even for people using lower end devices. As many of the users have […]
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Using JSFiddle to Prototype Firefox OS Apps
Dancing to the Tune of the Fiddle JSFiddle is a fantastic prototyping and code review tool. It’s great for getting out a quick test case or code concept without having to spool up your full tool chain and editor. Further, it’s a great place to paste ill-behaved code so that others can review it and […]
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Firefox Aurora Marketplace for Android available now
Today, Mozilla announced the Firefox Aurora Marketplace release. We’re hoping that Aurora users, our awesome early adopters, will go experience the Firefox Marketplace on their Android phones and let us know what they think. Our goal is to collect as much real-life feedback as possible about the Marketplace’s design, usability, performance, reliability, and content. Feedback […]
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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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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 TranslationTester and localization support for Open Web Apps
When building Open Web Apps, one important factor is to make your content available to as many possible, and one way to do that is to make it available in more than one language. Therefore we want to make it as easy as possible for you, both with a complete code repository to get started […]