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: New Blog Design

  New year, time for a long overdue design refresh on my blog! The new WordPress theme that I’ve been slowly working on is now live. Here are some quick notes about the making of it. Design The main goal of the new design is to bring focus to the content, ...

  Posted January 25, 2013 by Lucas Rocha

• Naoki Hirata: Example of Session based testing

  see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=830657#c23 30 minutes. Tested a fix. found 7 potential bugs. If you want agile testing… there you go. Now I just have check and verify they aren’t reported already… and file them if they aren’t… Filed under: mobifx, mobile, Planet, QA, QMO, Uncategorized

  Posted January 25, 2013 by shizen008

• Lucas Rocha: Featured bug #2 in Firefox for Android

  Before bringing up the next featured bug, it’s probably a good time for a quick update on the state of Firefox for Android’s coding community. Long story short: we have never had as many coding contributors as we have now! Here’s what some of them have been working on. Sriram ...

  Posted January 23, 2013 by Lucas Rocha

• Sriram Ramasubramanian: Compound Drawables

  Many a times we tend to add an image to a text for a Button. The pictorial representation of an action is easier for the user to understand and provides a visual identity for the application. In Android, there is a general perception that this has needs a minimum of ...

  Posted January 15, 2013 by Sriram Ramani

• Naoki Hirata: Sometimes stating generic things can be dangerous…

  My thought is that “people who have coded at one point in their lifetime may be better QA people than those that have not ever coded.” Why? When I had mentored some new QA members that have coded before… I ask them this question “Take the design, take the spec, ...

  Posted January 14, 2013 by shizen008

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