Articles tagged “firefoxos”
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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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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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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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Firefox OS for developers – the platform HTML5 deserves
Over the next few weeks we will publish a series of short videos here that explain what Firefox OS means for developers and how you can be part of the revolution it brings to the world. In various conversations we’ve repeatedly heard from developers that they view Firefox OS as simply a third player in […]
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Optimizing your JavaScript game for Firefox OS
When developing on a quad core processor with 16 gigabytes of RAM you can easily forget to consider how it will perform on a mobile device. This article will detail some best practices and things to consider for moving a game to Firefox OS or any similar hardware target. Making the best of 256 Mb […]
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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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Keynote on Firefox OS at Campus Party Recife
Chris Heilmann and I just finished our keynote at Campus Party Recife in this lovely Brazilian coastal town. It is amazing to see the enthusiasm and momentum around Firefox OS in the local community. By partnering with Telefonica and their Open Web Device initiative the reception was that much that the organisers had to double […]
