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: Firefox for Android Performance Measures – February Check-up

  The February 2013 summary of performance measures for Firefox for Android. Note modest improvements on tcheck2 and ts. A new RSS regression was found with awsy. Talos This section tracks Perfomatic graphs from graphs.mozilla.org for mozilla-central builds of Native Fennec (Android opt). The test names shown are those used on ...

  Posted March 2, 2013 by gbrown-mozilla

• Gian-Carlo Pascutto: Why Twitter pictures are sideways

  We set out to do a demonstration of using WebRTC on an Android device before this years Mobile World Congress. I'm happy to say we made the deadline and were able to demonstrate some nice desktop Firefox to Android video calls. We only got the demonstration code working shortly before ...

  Posted February 27, 2013 by noreply@blogger.com (Gian-Carlo Pascutto)

• Lucas Rocha: UI improvements in Firefox for Android

  Now that we’ve landed all the major changes for our next UI iteration, it’s probably a good time to spread the word about it and get some more feedback. The goals with these changes are: keeping a clear distinction between different types of tabs; making better use of the screen ...

  Posted February 25, 2013 by Lucas Rocha

• John Hammink: Keynote on Firefox OS at Campus Party Recife!

  NOTE: I put this up on my blog almost 6 months ago - and never realized it didn't get published at the time! Chris Heilmann and I just finished our keynote at Campus Party Recife in this lovely Brazillian coastal town. It's amazing to see the enthusiasm and momentum around ...

  Posted February 24, 2013 by noreply@blogger.com (John Hammink)

• 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

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