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Mozilla Launches Firefox OS Simulator 3.0

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Re: Mozilla Launches Firefox OS Simulator 3.0

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Post by drothlis »

antihero wrote: post #5

Wow, it looks like a really slick OS. I think it'll be neat seeing web-apps as first class citizens - it never made sense to me why we have to use Objective-C or Java just to make some UI or whatever.

And you can even test your FirefoxOS apps with the Selenium WebDriver API!

Mozilla's talk about testing FirefoxOS, at the Google Test Automation Conference last week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X41eqcmC2Dk

Writeup: http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/548910/9c5d6bd1bd69f34c/

Demo of automated UI test using Appium to test an app on the FirefoxOS simulator: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J0aXDbjiUE#t=34m30s

Re: Mozilla Launches Firefox OS Simulator 3.0

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Post by cji »

skizm wrote: post #4

Is there any way to get your hands a dev phone without being a mobile app developer rockstar (I assume they give them away to these guys/girls)? Alternatively is there a method to get your hands on the OS and load it on an android phone to play around with? The simulator is great and all but I love seeing the finished product on an actual phone.

If you can't snag a developer phone, there is support for building it for a limited number of android handsets. Compatible devices: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/... Installation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/...

Re: Mozilla Launches Firefox OS Simulator 3.0

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Post by fabrice_d »

johansch wrote: post #9
skizm wrote: post #4

Is there any way to get your hands a dev phone without being a mobile app developer rockstar (I assume they give them away to these guys/girls)? Alternatively is there a method to get your hands on the OS and load it on an android phone to play around with? The simulator is great and all but I love seeing the finished product on an actual phone.

I think they are afraid of showing real-world performance to soon...

Everything was developed in the open from day 1. We are not hiding anything there. If you get a Keon from Geeksphone, you'll get a good idea of how it performs on low-end hardware similar to the one that will be sold by the first carriers. And it's pretty good I think. (disclaimer: I'm a Mozilla employee working on b2g)

Re: Mozilla Launches Firefox OS Simulator 3.0

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Post by doublec »

skizm wrote: post #4

Is there any way to get your hands a dev phone without being a mobile app developer rockstar (I assume they give them away to these guys/girls)? Alternatively is there a method to get your hands on the OS and load it on an android phone to play around with? The simulator is great and all but I love seeing the finished product on an actual phone.

It runs ok on a Nexus S http://bluishcoder.co.nz/2013/04/22/running-firefox-os-on-ne...

Re: Mozilla Launches Firefox OS Simulator 3.0

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Post by vidarh »

antihero wrote: post #5

Wow, it looks like a really slick OS. I think it'll be neat seeing web-apps as first class citizens - it never made sense to me why we have to use Objective-C or Java just to make some UI or whatever.

Having to deal ludicrously overcomplicated environments is what's kept me from writing apps for my own use for my Android phone. I recently took to the decidedly suboptimal choice (on Android) of "simply" writing js/html apps with localstorage as a workaround, so an OS that is designed to actually make apps written that way a first class citizen will be awesome.

Re: Mozilla Launches Firefox OS Simulator 3.0

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Post by lucian1900 »

bru wrote: post #17
zo65aLVnK wrote: post #14

is Firefox OS based on Android?

Did you even look up your question on a search engine before asking it? The dedicated Wikipedia page has all the information you are looking for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_OS (spoiler: no it is not)

Correction: yes, it is; it uses Android kernels.
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