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…
Building Firefox Hub Add-ons for Firefox for Android
The Firefox Hub APIs allow add-ons to add new panels to the Firefox for Android home page, where users normally find their top sites, bookmarks and history. These APIs were introduced in Firefox 30, but there are more features and…
Testing Your Native Android App
It’s an interesting time to be a web developer! For years Apps have been eating the web and now we are seeing the Web eat the OS. Mozilla is pushing for a world where you can write standards-based, Open Web…
Firefox OS Apps run on Android
At Mozilla we believe that apps and browsing are best viewed as cooperative and symbiotic, each better when working together. We are working to strengthen that relationship by building an apps ecosystem that is built using the Web technologies that…
Better integration for open web apps on Android
Up until now, developing web apps on mobile has been a little tricky. After spending the time developing your app, getting your users to install it is difficult, especially when the concept of “installing a web app” is not very…
Firefox 24 for Android gets WebRTC support by default
WebRTC is now on Firefox for Android as well as Firefox Desktop! Firefox 24 for Android now supports mozGetUserMedia, mozRTCPeerConnection, and DataChannels by default. mozGetUserMedia has been in desktop releases since Firefox 20, and mozPeerConnection and DataChannels since Firefox 22,…