Apps Articles
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Implementing In-App Payments in Your Firefox OS App
At Mozilla, we have been working on bringing payments to the web. We think it is important that developers have an easy way to monetize their apps. It also gives us the chance to offer deeper platform integration, allowing things like carrier billing in addition to credit/debit cards. We’ve talked about in-app payments before in […]
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Firefox OS Security: Part 2 – User Experience and Security Updates
When presenting Firefox OS to people, security is a big topic. Can an operating system built on web technologies be secure? What has Mozilla built in to avoid drive-by downloads and malware? How can a browser-based app be secure without making the UX suffer by asking the user to react to a lot of “do […]
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Launching developer Q&A on Stack Overflow
One thing that is very important for us at Mozilla is the need to directly interact with you developers and help you with challenges and issues while developing using open technologies. We are now happy to announce our presence on Stack Overflow! Stack Overflow is one of – if not the – most well-known question […]
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Designing Web Apps For Multiple Devices
Before 2010, there were few devices on the Web other than smartphones and desktop/laptop computers. Developers could assume phone users had a small screen, low bandwidth and used a webapp for brief moments. Desktop users were assumed to have a large screen, high bandwidth and spend large amounts of time within an application. Designing a […]
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Halloween artist
A while back, I made a little toy that simulates carving pumpkins. It was during that narrow window when the WebOS-running TouchPad was new and hot. Since then, web browsers have gown up a lot, and nowadays Mozilla is executing the vision of a browser-based operating system with Firefox OS. In any case, I’ve been […]
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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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Building a Firefox OS App for my favorite Internet radio station
I recently created a Firefox OS app for my favourite radio station — radio paradise. It was a lot of fun making this app, so I thought it would be good to share some notes about how I built it. The audio tag It started by implementing the main functionality of the app, playing an […]
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New Firefox OS App Workshops & Other Updates
Here in the virtual headquarters of Mozilla’s geo-distributed tech evangelism team, we always have bags packed and traveling shoes on. Today we’re happy to announce a couple of new Firefox OS App Workshops for web developers: we’ll be in Guadalajara, Mexico, on Saturday, October 26, and we’ll be in Budapest, Hungary, on Saturday, November 23. […]
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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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Web Activities – Firefox OS: the platform HTML5 deserves
In the sixth video of our “Firefox OS – the platform HTML5 deserves” series (the previous five videos are published here) we talk about how Web Activities allow you as a developer to access parts of the hardware without having to package your app. Check out the video featuring Chris Heilmann (@codepo8) from Mozilla and […]