Firefox: The Next Mobile Platform

Re:Firefox: The Next Mobile Platform by lukifer on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @02:51PM (#9305899)

I think the smart move for Mozilla would be a unified build process that exported FFos apps to iPhone and Android. If it were positioned as the best "write-once" hybrid web framework, FFos would gain a much larger app ecosystem as a by-product.

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Re:Firefox: The Next Mobile Platform by on_and_off on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @04:00PM (#9306412)

I don't know any popular app (Facebook, Spotify, Deezer, Play Music, Gmail, Pocket, ...) that uses such an hybrid framework. All the major apps have teams dedicated to each platform. They might share some code with a shared c++ library or J2objc (or a similar solution) but never a write-once ship everywhere app.

So that would only allow them to gain the low popularity/quality app. That's not really a win.

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Re:Firefox: The Next Mobile Platform by hotsy_botsy on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @03:36PM (#9306228)

This happened a while ago, but hasn't seemed to catch on: https://github.com/mozilla/apk-factory-service

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Re:Firefox: The Next Mobile Platform by aries1980 on Thursday April 02, 2015 @04:35PM (#9313040)

The issue is you need to have a pre-installed Firefox on the device. Too bad, such dependency can't be set in the manifests so it won't pull automatically from App Store or Google Play.

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