I’m happy to announce that James Willcox, better known to many as snorp, is now an Android Widget peer. James has been doing reviews and acting as a de-facto peer for a while now so it is about time to make it official.
Thanks to the great work of Kim Moir we now have nightly builds of Firefox for Android x86. If you have one of these devices, such as the Motorola Razr I, ZTE Grand X or Intel Black Ray you can download a nightly…
As I write this I’m sitting on a Virgin flight to SFO from Boston. Strangely enough, exactly 5 years and a day ago I was also on a Virgin flight to SFO from London. Back then I was flying out to start my new job at Mozilla. Earlier that year I had started to get antsy in my previous job…
The mobile team is coming to Boston the 3rd week of August along with some of our friends from graphics, layout, sync, automation and QA for a work week. As part of the week we’re holding a hack day focusing on mobile games and mobile add-ons on Thursday August 16th on the 7th floor of…
We launched pretty cool product about a month ago. It got lots of really great coverage in the press. After spending 9 months rewriting Firefox for Android, we’re really happy with the results. But that mostly just establishes a baseline for us and onward we go. Firefox 15 has lots of…
Firefox 8 for Android is now being built with NDKr5. Bug 657723 tracked deploying the updated NDK to our build slaves and updating the configuration to use it. After a couple of hiccups along the way we started producing on change builds with it on Wed July 27th and the first NDKr5 built…
About a year ago I posted a VMWare VM that had been set up to build Fennec for Android. That was still pretty early in the development of Fennec for Android and things have changed a lot since then. In particular, we now support developing with a stock NDKr5 (or NDKr6). So…
Since we switched to the rapid release process, the mobile team has been using tracking-fennec to track bugs we care about for a particular release (so that tracking-fennec=7+ means the patch or feature either landed in Firefox 7 or we expect it to). Yesterday…
The changes required to build Fennec for Android with NDKr5 have landed. Up until now you had to use a custom built version of NDKr4 that included STL support (based off of Crystax’s NDK). Now with NDKr5, you can build Fennec with a stock NDK.
Most Android keyboards show what’s called an “extracted text view” when they’re in landscape mode, where it takes over the whole screen hiding the underlying application. However, you can use the EditorInfo.IME_FLAG_NO_EXTRACT_UI flag with…