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.

• Ian Barlow: Improved type on Firefox for Android

  Project Readability The Firefox UX team has been thinking a lot about type and readability lately, as part of our ongoing goal to make the web more beautiful and more readable on Firefox for Android than on any other mobile web browser. Since the web is made almost entirely of ...

  Posted March 19, 2013 by ianbarlow

• Chris Peterson: Stacked Git: Mercurial-style Patch Queues for Git

  Most Mozilla developers use Mercurial (hg) patch queues to organize patches and revise them based on feedback from Bugzilla code reviews. I had not found a similar git workflow that was nearly as convenient until Stacked Git. Suggestions to use git rebase --interactive and temporary branches were not as nimble ...

  Posted March 19, 2013 by Chris Peterson

• Naoki Hirata: Submitting pending crashes…

  Ted just made a wonderful new script for us to upload pending folder crashes. It requires poster (ie you will have to run |sudo pip install poster| you run it by |submit.py /path/to/files/*.dmp| The submit.py script is found here : http://hg.mozilla.org/users/tmielczarek_mozilla.com/crashsubmit/file/04bad2ba2637 What it’s useful for? Sometimes pending crashes aren’t submitted ...

  Posted March 18, 2013 by shizen008

• Kartikaya Gupta: Android Beam (NFC) support in Fennec

  Last week I landed bug 726335 which adds support for sharing the currently visible tab URL via Android Beam in Fennec. I also had two follow-up patches because I forgot to check the API levels in which the relevant APIs where added... doh! But anyway, if you have two Android ...

  Posted March 14, 2013 by stak

• 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

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