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.

• Geoff Brown: Mobile Firefox Performance Measures – October Check-up

  Happy Halloween! Are the October mobile performance measures scary, or sweet as candy? Read on…. Talos This section shows Perfomatic graphs from graphs.mozilla.org for mozilla-central builds of Native Fennec (Android opt). The test names shown are those used on tbpl. See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Buildbot/Talos for background on Talos. Some of these graphs ...

  Posted November 1, 2012 by gbrown-mozilla

• Mark Finkle: Firefox for Android: Remote Web Console is Here

  I already blogged about support for remote debugging in Firefox for Android. Now we have support for remote Web Console too! The remote console, like remote debugging, requires using Desktop Firefox to connect to Mobile Firefox over USB using ADB. Remote console is supported in Firefox 19 and newer releases. ...

  Posted October 31, 2012 by Mark Finkle

• Matt Brubeck: Congratulating the IE10 team

  Back when Firefox 2 was released (six years ago this week!), the Internet Explorer team started a friendly tradition of sending Mozilla a cake as congratulations. This continued for Firefox 3 and Firefox 4. After Firefox switched from major releases once or twice a year to incremental updates every six ...

  Posted October 26, 2012 by mbrubeck@limpet.net (Matt Brubeck)

• Naoki Hirata: Concept of state testing …

  Earlier this year, I did some migration testing from XUL fennec to Native fennec in regards to sync. I simplified what states I had to test, and tested each of the conditions that way. Basically a bug occurs because the app will end up getting to a certain state, and ...

  Posted October 25, 2012 by shizen008

• 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

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