For this post, please welcome guest blogger and SDK developer Matteo Ferretti who has been hard at work porting the SDK to work with the new native version of Mobile Firefox. Getting Started Add-on SDK version 1.5 is due to be released on February 21st, and we're pleased to announce that this version will introduce… Continue reading
Tomorrow I’m heading to Europe for a week or so; amongst other things I am very very excited to be attending FOSDEM for the first time after hearing about it for years! I’ll be speaking and generally helping out in the Mozilla project’s dev room. If you are at all interested in add-on development, there… Continue reading
Project News Firefox developer Tim Taubert blogged about an interesting technique for getting Firefox’s native websocket implementation working on IRC Cloud using an SDK-based add-on. Frustrated with debugging geolocation code? Try Louis-Remi Babe’s excellent Geo Devtool addon. This addon is SDK based and allows you to manually set the browser’s current geolocation. Last but not… Continue reading
Project News SDK 1.2 Released! Blog posts: Security Mechanisms in the SDK & Planet Jetpack BETA SDK hack day coming to Mountain View November 19th. Register now! Development news: 1.3 is in stabilization, 1.4 is in development. Meeting Brief Builder re-pack changes pushed to production last Wed. Will re-pack add-ons for 1.2 SDK: need to… Continue reading
Project News London Add-on Workshop SDK slides are posted. We’re running an end-of year add-on competition focusing on restartless addons. Meeting Brief Builder / re-pack scripts need more testing. SDK 1.2 RC1 to be released later today. L10n and Mobile support under active development, no hard time-lines for landing on trunk. Planning an all-day SDK… Continue reading
News: SDK 1.1 Released! The London SDK Workshop next week is filling up fast! If you’re in the London area and want to attend, sign up now! Announcing the Bay-area edition of the Add-on SDK Workshop coming this October 17th in Mountain View at the Computer History Museum! Project Meeting Brief SDK re-pack is blocked… Continue reading
Firefox 4 for mobile is here – now get mobile add-ons!
Ok, so it’s not a full week, but this virtual training event will give you all the information you need to build and port a mobile add-on for Firefox! Firefox 4 Beta for Android and Maemo has been released into the wild. Pretty soon it will be available for download in the Android Marketplace. Already… Continue reading
Firefox for mobile (Fennec) is bumping its version numbering to more closely match desktop releases of Firefox. This means “Firefox 2.0b1 for Android & Maemo” is becoming “Firefox 4.0b1 for Android & Maemo” and will be released as “Firefox 4.0 for Android & Maemo”. We are aligning mobile Firefox and desktop Firefox since the web… Continue reading
AMO has been updated with 2.0a1 and 2.0b1pre versions for Firefox Mobile. Alpha 1 will be released in the next day or so, so please test your extension if you already are compatible with 2.0a1pre, it is very likely that your extension will still work. Also, the Fennec nightly builds have been updated to 2.0b1pre,… Continue reading
