Ask HN: Best Firefox phone to get?

Re:Ask HN: Best Firefox phone to get? by AndrewDucker on Sunday April 27, 2014 @05:08PM (#7656887)

It's a shame there isn't a "Firefox OS" app for Android, that basically acts as if it _was_ the OS for the phone.

That way you could try it out without having to throw away your existing install/apps. There's no reason it couldn't be installed as the launcher, and take over running everything on the phone. I assume that that would be a fair amount of extra work though.

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Re:Ask HN: Best Firefox phone to get? by kbrosnan on Sunday April 27, 2014 @07:49PM (#7657491)

This really is not trivial. Firefox OS runs on the same fork of Linux as Android but does not have any of the Dalvik bits.

There is Firefox for Android, you can go to https://marketplace.firefox.com to test most apps. There are some apps that only specify manifests for Firefox OS.

The everything.me launcher may provide some of the look and feel of Firefox OS. http://blog.everything.me/2014/02/06/mozilla-and-everythingm...

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Re:Ask HN: Best Firefox phone to get? by fabrice_d on Sunday April 27, 2014 @09:41PM (#7657805)

Actually we could do it, it's basically "just" loading gaia's system app packaged for android web runtime. That would still need quite some work as we don't have yet feature parity on some api support. That sounds like a cool contributor project that could be mentored.

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