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.

• Chris Peterson: Adding custom search engines to Firefox for Android

  One of my favorite “underdocumented” features of Firefox for Android is the ability to add custom search engines to your “Awesome Screen“. Almost any website with a search form can become a search engine. Just long-press in the search form’s text box and Firefox will display a popup menu with ...

  Posted October 18, 2012 by Chris Peterson

• Chris Lord: Progressive Tile Rendering

  So back from layout into graphics again! For the last few weeks, I've been working with Benoit Girard on getting progressive tile rendering finished and turned on by default in Firefox for Android. The results so far are very promising! First, a bit of background (feel free to skip to ...

  Posted October 17, 2012 by

• Sriram Ramasubramanian: Instagram List View

  The ever scrolling list view of Instagram has a special property. Since the height of each list item can vary, the title (containing the user’s profile photo, name and location), stays until the entire item scrolls out of visible area. This is a cool modification of the accordion views we ...

  Posted October 17, 2012 by Sriram Ramani

• Sriram Ramasubramanian: View’s Camera

  As mentioned in my previous post on Kinetic List View, here’s a way to get the rotation for views on pre-honeycomb devices. The RotateAnimation provided by Android rotates the view in an X-Y plane. However, the desired effect should be a 3-D space. To achieve this, Android allows us to ...

  Posted October 15, 2012 by Sriram Ramani

• Sriram Ramasubramanian: Kinetic List View

  On one hand, Apple has patented the elastic over-scrolling behavior leaving Samsung to pay $1B. On the other, the blue Holo over-scroll doesn’t quite match with the app’s color scheme. Instagram or Pinterest cannot depend on either of these to give a List View that could evoke the emotions of ...

  Posted October 12, 2012 by Sriram Ramani

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