Welcome to the Mobile Developer Community

• Mobile Wiki

  Get the latest news, status and developer documentation on the Mozilla mobile project. Check out the mobile project's goals, and how you can help out and get involved!

• Build Great Mobile Add-ons

  Firefox is the world's first Web browser to support mobile add-ons. Learn about Extension Basics, Extension Best Practices, helpful Code Snippets, and more so you can build innovative add-ons for Firefox on Android and Firefox on Nokia's Meego platform.

• Location-Aware Applications

  Learn how to use the Geolocation API and put people on the right path. Location-Aware Browsing is a must when you're out and about on your mobile. Learn how to build innovative apps that delight your audience.

• Help build Firefox for Mobile

  Your help is vital to the success of Firefox. Provide feedback on our IRC channel, join our Wednesday development meeting, or even file some bugs.

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• Firefox for mobile: What's coming next

  The projects and planning never stops. We're cooking up some amazing new features and improvements for our next major release. Check it out and see how you can help us continue to make the world's best mobile Web browser.

• "HTML5 is Great for Mobile, Developers Say"

  Hear from other developers about the advantages of HTML5 and developing for the mobile Web in this article from ReadWriteWeb:

  "'Hands down, the developer pool for HTML / JS rock stars is tenfold larger [and] there is no download attrition. You simply point people at a URL and there you go -- it's installed.' The fact that apps can be directly installed by URL rather than by waiting for an App Store download means that developers reduce barriers to virality."

• Android APIs

  Access Android APIs on this Android Developer page.

• Naoki Hirata: How to root your Galaxy S to Cynogenmod 10 Nightly…

  Disclaimer: there is a chance that you may mess up your phone. I am warning you ahead of time that you are doing this at your own risk and that I might not be able to help you! I didn’t bother backing up… you may want to do so : ...

  Posted September 26, 2012 by shizen008

• Matt Brubeck: Metro Firefox without Windows 8

  A few weeks ago I started working on the Firefox “Metro UI” project, for Windows 8’s Metro (or Modern) touch-screen environment. While we’re still working on getting our first preview builds ready for Windows 8 users to try out, you can already check out the current source code from the ...

  Posted September 20, 2012 by mbrubeck@limpet.net (Matt Brubeck)

• Sriram Ramasubramanian: Sharing is Caring

  As a part of our ongoing “Fennec should have its own theme” approach, we felt the Share activity chooser provided by Android varies between releases. Also, opening a Share Activity Chooser, causes the foreground browser to go into background, calls onPause(), and on and on. With the implementation of SubMenu ...

  Posted September 19, 2012 by Sriram Ramani

• Sriram Ramasubramanian: Styleable Views

  Every view has a list of attributes associated with it. They can either be set in JAVA by calling appropriate methods, or more easily in XML. The attributes are called styleable as they differentiate a view in its skin. A typical example of a View in XML is: <View android:id="@+id/view" ...

  Posted September 19, 2012 by Sriram Ramani

• Kartikaya Gupta: More ICSE papers of relevance

  Following on from my last post, I found three more papers in ICSE 2012 that I thought were pretty relevant to stuff we're doing at Mozilla. (Unfortunately not all of the papers are freely available online but I've tried to link to the closest relevant thing that is freely available). ...

  Posted September 19, 2012 by stak

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