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Preview FirefoxOS with R2D2B2G

54 points by davidwalshblog 14y ago

mtgx 14y ago
Why are they allowing the Twitter app to have a square background? At least force it into a circle background even with its own square background. I actually like the consistency of having every icon a circle no matter matter. It makes it look much cleaner than how Android icons look (all different shapes and sizes). I suggest they fully enforce the circle backgrounds.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
  It's not as if it's difficult, it's just border-radius: 24px; or an SVG mask.
- sp332 14y ago
  "Gallery" and "Settings" aren't really circles either. I don't see any point in enforcing the shape of icons.
gagege 14y ago
Not working for me in Firefox 16.0.2 on Windows 7. There's just a black phone sized Firefox window on my screen.
josteink 14y ago
Unfortunately it seemed like I couldn't get it to work on Windows. How long is it supposed to take before you see anything in the simulator?
- firefoxman1 14y ago
  I had the same issue here (Firefox 16, linux). I downloaded the latest nightly build and it works for me.
tedchs 14y ago
Great, so now all my mobile apps can have the same performance, consistent look & feel, and full access to the phone's capabilities as Phonegap / Cordova / Titanium! Clearly this is a step forward for mobile development.
css771 14y ago
Or, if you have a Galaxy Nexus, try out an alpha port here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1805282 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1805282
- Andrex 14y ago
  Thanks! Been meaning to check this out for a while.
sbouafif 14y ago
Really nice! I just tried it for a few minutes and that's impressive. Works really well on Mac and FF Nightly. A few things thought: - I didn't find how to switch between apps. - Setting a custom resolution will be a good feature. - Copy/Paste from desktop to B2G edit: Ok so to go back to home screen, on a mac use fn+left arrow key of fn+right arrow ke
- deleted 14y ago
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- mburns 14y ago
  To switch between apps, you can hold the Home button down (Don't know what that is mapped to in r2d2b2g, and it will 'zoom out' to a WebOS-like list of cards that you can swipe left or right. Swipe up to Quit the app. Press home, or one of the cards, to return.
- pettazz 14y ago
  Looks like Home is the home button and End is the lock button. (on Mac fn+left = Home and fn+right = End)
TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
OT, but Firefox's extension downloading (at least on Windows 8 Desktop) seems to stop when the pop-up loses focus, meaning you either have to sit there for 8 minutes, or right-click and do "Save Link as...", and then open the downloaded files.
- jamii 14y ago
  There is a tiny plugin logo to the left of the address bar. Clicking on that will bring the popup back. Easily missed though.
  - TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
    For me it restarted the download...
drivebyacct2 14y ago
I don't know why they won't just start making nightly builds. If they setup Jenkins and produced GSM and CDMA Galaxy Nexus build, they would increase testing and feedback significantly.
- jlongster 14y ago
  I believe there are licensing issues with the actual device drivers, they can't be distributed.
ubersoldat2k7 14y ago
Lovely, I just tried with Selenium and it works. Also, with Eclipse Orion on the other tab and all you need is Firefox to do all development.
digitarald 14y ago
Great to hear that it works with all your tools! Follow the development at https://github.com/mozilla/r2d2b2g/ https://github.com/mozilla/r2d2b2g/ . We are working on the first release, so feedback is more than welcome!

mtgx 14y ago

Why are they allowing the Twitter app to have a square background? At least force it into a circle background even with its own square background. I actually like the consistency of having every icon a circle no matter matter. It makes it look much cleaner than how Android icons look (all different shapes and sizes). I suggest they fully enforce the circle backgrounds.

TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
It's not as if it's difficult, it's just border-radius: 24px; or an SVG mask.
sp332 14y ago
"Gallery" and "Settings" aren't really circles either. I don't see any point in enforcing the shape of icons.

gagege 14y ago

Not working for me in Firefox 16.0.2 on Windows 7. There's just a black phone sized Firefox window on my screen.

josteink 14y ago

Unfortunately it seemed like I couldn't get it to work on Windows. How long is it supposed to take before you see anything in the simulator?

firefoxman1 14y ago
I had the same issue here (Firefox 16, linux). I downloaded the latest nightly build and it works for me.

tedchs 14y ago

Great, so now all my mobile apps can have the same performance, consistent look & feel, and full access to the phone's capabilities as Phonegap / Cordova / Titanium! Clearly this is a step forward for mobile development.

css771 14y ago

Or, if you have a Galaxy Nexus, try out an alpha port here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1805282 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1805282

Andrex 14y ago
Thanks! Been meaning to check this out for a while.

sbouafif 14y ago

Really nice! I just tried it for a few minutes and that's impressive. Works really well on Mac and FF Nightly. A few things thought: - I didn't find how to switch between apps. - Setting a custom resolution will be a good feature. - Copy/Paste from desktop to B2G edit: Ok so to go back to home screen, on a mac use fn+left arrow key of fn+right arrow ke

deleted 14y ago
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mburns 14y ago
To switch between apps, you can hold the Home button down (Don't know what that is mapped to in r2d2b2g, and it will 'zoom out' to a WebOS-like list of cards that you can swipe left or right. Swipe up to Quit the app. Press home, or one of the cards, to return.
pettazz 14y ago
Looks like Home is the home button and End is the lock button. (on Mac fn+left = Home and fn+right = End)

TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago

OT, but Firefox's extension downloading (at least on Windows 8 Desktop) seems to stop when the pop-up loses focus, meaning you either have to sit there for 8 minutes, or right-click and do "Save Link as...", and then open the downloaded files.

jamii 14y ago
There is a tiny plugin logo to the left of the address bar. Clicking on that will bring the popup back. Easily missed though.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
  For me it restarted the download...

drivebyacct2 14y ago

I don't know why they won't just start making nightly builds. If they setup Jenkins and produced GSM and CDMA Galaxy Nexus build, they would increase testing and feedback significantly.

jlongster 14y ago
I believe there are licensing issues with the actual device drivers, they can't be distributed.

ubersoldat2k7 14y ago

Lovely, I just tried with Selenium and it works. Also, with Eclipse Orion on the other tab and all you need is Firefox to do all development.

digitarald 14y ago

Great to hear that it works with all your tools! Follow the development at https://github.com/mozilla/r2d2b2g/ https://github.com/mozilla/r2d2b2g/ . We are working on the first release, so feedback is more than welcome!