Articles tagged “Firefox OS”
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From game jam to mobile and Firefox OS
I love participating in game jams, where game developers get together to craft games in a very short amount of time. I thought it would be cool to take one of my past Game Jam games, Metal vs Hipsters, and port it to the mobile web and Firefox OS. Adapting to mobile My starting point […]
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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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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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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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Network Activity and Battery Drain in Mobile Web Apps
Editor’s note: This post describes the work of a group of students from Portland State University who worked with Mozilla on their senior project. Over the course of the last 6 months, they’ve worked with Mozillian Dietrich Ayala to create a JavaScript library that allows developers to optimize the usage of network operations, thus saving […]
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How to make a browser app for Firefox OS
Firefox OS is an operating system built on top of the Firefox web browser engine, which is called Gecko. A browser app on Firefox OS provides a user interface written with HTML5 technology and manages web page browsing using the Browser API. It also manages tabbing, browsing history, bookmarks, and so on depending on the […]
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Embedding an HTTP Web Server in Firefox OS
Nearing the end of last year, Mozilla employees were gathered together for a week of collaboration and planning. During that week, a group was formed to envision what the future of Firefox OS might be surrounding a more P2P-focused Web. In particular, we’ve been looking at harnessing technologies to collectively enable offline P2P connections such […]
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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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Upgrading your ZTE Open to Firefox 1.1 or 1.2 (fastboot enabled)
If you are a ZTE Open owner, you may have already upgraded to Firefox OS 1.1 following the instructions from our previous post. If so, you probably realized that the latest build from ZTE had a problem: fastboot wasn’t enabled anymore. For those of you who didn’t upgrade because of that, ZTE has put a […]
