Boot to Gecko (B2G) 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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Backing Up User Data on Firefox OS
The FFOS Backup/Restore Team Portland State University’s Computer Science degree culminates in a capstone program that matches teams of students with industry sponsors for a six-month software engineering project. We had the privilege of working with Mozilla on an application to back up and restore personal data on Firefox OS. We are: Ryan Bernstein: Team […]
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Firefox OS, Animations & the Dark Cubic-Bezier of the Soul
I’ve been using Firefox OS daily for a couple of years now (wow, time flies!). While performance has steadily improved with efforts like Project Silk, I’ve often noticed delays in the user interface. I assumed the delays were because the hardware was well below the “flagship” hardware I’ve become accustomed to with Android and iOS devices. Last […]
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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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Creating the future of mobile with Firefox OS – resources, docs and more!
Just under a month ago I wrote a personal post about my thoughts on Firefox OS and why I think there is something ‘magical’ about what it stands for and the possibilities it brings to the table. This post is a follow-up that aims to cover much of the same ground but with extra detail […]
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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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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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Bringing the web to mobiles – Mozilla and Telefonica at Over the Air 2012
A few weeks ago, Over the Air 2012, Englands biggest mobile (un)conference in Bletchley Park, England (home of the first ever computer built to crack the German Enigma encryption machines) attracted a few hundred developers to hear about the latest happenings in the mobile space and hack with them. Mozilla’s contribution was not only the […]
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Presentation: HTML5 and friends at Mobile World Congress 2012
As part of the WIP Jam at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain we were asked to give and introduction to HTML5 so we sent Chris Heilmann and Joe Stagner to set the record straight in terms of what HTML5 is and what you can do with it. The presentation was on the last […]
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WebTelephony API and WebSMS API – Part of WebAPI
As discussed and shown in Mozilla’s Boot to Gecko – The Web is the Platform and Gaia, Mozilla’s user interface for Boot to Gecko, the web is becoming a very powerful platform! Therefore I want to introduce you to two exciting APIs, from our WebAPI initiative: WebTelephony and WebSMS.
