Mozilla Launches Firefox OS Simulator 3.0(thenextweb.com)

124 pointsby Lightning13 anni fa18 comments

Mozilla Launches Firefox OS Simulator 3.0

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/05/02/mozilla-launches-firefox-os-3-0-simulator-with-push-to-device-rotation-simulation-geolocation-api-and-more/

6 comments

tallowen13 anni fa

Just to clarify the simulator is now version 3.0, not the OS itself.

Here is a link from Mozilla explaining whats new in the new version of the simulator:

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/05/firefox-os-simulator-3-0-r...

antihero13 anni fa

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.

clauretano13 anni fa

Somewhere, a former Palm webOS engineer is reading your comment and crying.

drothlis13 anni fa

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

vidarh13 anni fa

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.

tcdowney13 anni fa

Now if only their developer phones were easier to get a hold of.

I was totally ready to impulse buy a Keon last week, but I missed the initial rush on them.

ndesaulniers13 anni fa

If you're interested in seeing the code for it, it's made with love and open sourced up on github. Please try it out and leave us some constructive criticism in our issue tracker: https://github.com/mozilla/r2d2b2g/issues?state=open

skizm13 anni fa

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.

dagurp13 anni fa

http://www.geeksphone.com/ Went on sale about a week ago. I think they're sold out though

LukeShu13 anni fa

They put a few more up every day.

Each day they go through the cycle:

  - shop is down, has a white page saying that the shop will
    be up again "in the following hours"
  - the shop goes live
  - the shop sells out
  - the shop is up, but says "Out of stock" on product pages

doublec13 anni fa

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

cji13 anni fa

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/...

johansch13 anni fa

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

fabrice_d13 anni fa

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)

zo65aLVnK13 anni fa

is Firefox OS based on Android?

bru13 anni fa

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)

lucian190013 anni fa

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

Mikeb8513 anni fa

I think it has some lower-level Android bits, I don't believe it has Dalvik though...