Articles tagged “apps”
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Improving Firefox stability with this one weird trick
We break down how we reduced Firefox out-of-memory crashes on Windows with a simple trick. Poorly behaving web pages and apps are no longer capable of crashing the browser by exhausting memory.
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Hacks Decoded: Adewale Adetona
Adetona Adewale Akeem, more popularly known as iSlimfit, is a Nigeria-born revered digital technologist and marketing expert. He is the co-founder of Menopays, a fintech startup offering another Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) option across Africa. We chatted with him about founding Menopays and the impact of tech solutions developed in Nigeria.
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Creating a mobile app from a simple HTML site: Part 4
How to polish your app and prepare it for market In previous sections of this step-by-step series (Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3) we’ve created an app that loads multiple school plans from the server. What we have so far is functional, but still has a number of issues, including two which are major: […]
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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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The Translation of the Firetext App
Firetext is an open-source word processor that aims to provide a user-friendly editing experience, and to fill a major gap in functionality on Firefox OS. Learn how Firetext was localized!
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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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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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Presentation: Web vs. Native at Reasons to be Appy
Yesterday around 300 attendees came to the amazing L.S.O. at St Luke’s in London, England for Reasons to be Appy conference. In nine presentations several speakers covered all kind of concepts around app development, from typography to mobile debugging. Mozilla’s presentation was Christian Heilmann talking about the controversy around the battle of native vs. web […]
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Privacy policy guidelines and Template for web apps
Releasing an app is much more than just coding it. You are providing a service to people and they trust you with their data. With the amount of reports of apps “calling home” and storing and sending your data to third parties without your consent rising it is important to make it plain and obvious […]
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The Mozilla Marketplace is now open for app submissions
The Web IS the Platform! Using HTML, CSS and JavaScript, a developer can build an app using responsive design, and that app can offer the same look and feel as a device-native app, without having to rewrite for every desired target platform. One code base – all popular devices! Now, developers can build apps and […]