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.

• Lucas Rocha: Introducing TwoWayView

  We’ve been working hard on a new iteration of the tabs UI for Firefox for Android. The new UI includes a horizontal scrolling tabs tray to make better use of the screen real estate on phones and tablets in different orientations. Unfortunately, the Android platform doesn’t provide any AdapterView with ...

  Posted February 21, 2013 by Lucas Rocha

• Sriram Ramasubramanian: Overdraw

  A couple of months back Romain Guy had posted a blog on performance of an Android app. Of the many things, overdraw seemed to be more easier to see instantly. I enabled the Show GPU Overdraw option in Developer Options and launched Fennec. Though some red areas were expected, the ...

  Posted February 21, 2013 by Sriram Ramani

• Lucas Rocha: Firefox for Android Talk in London

  Chris and I will be giving a talk about Firefox for Android next Friday on the 22nd of February at the London Mozilla Space. Join us to learn a bit more about the current state of Firefox for Android and our plans for 2013. We’ll talk in detail about how ...

  Posted February 15, 2013 by Lucas Rocha

• Chris Lord: Tips for smooth scrolling web pages (EdgeConf follow-up)

  I’m starting to type this up as EdgeConf draws to a close. I spoke on the performance panel, with Shane O’Sullivan, Rowan Beentje and Pavel Feldman, moderated by Matt Belamey, and tried to bring a platform perspective to the affair. I found the panel very interesting, and it reminded me ...

  Posted February 11, 2013 by Chris Lord

• Kartikaya Gupta: The Power of Introverts

  I recently finished reading Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain, recommended to me by my girlfriend. We're both introverts and, as a result, often have to deal with some friction in the extrovert-centric society we live in. I've mostly made my ...

  Posted February 11, 2013 by stak

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