Hi everyone. I wanted to give you all a quick overview of where we are with our plans to deliver developer tools targeted at web app developers for Firefox OS and the web app runtimes on android and desktop.
Developer tools support in Firefox OS We've been hard at work adding developer tools actors into the Gecko 26 code in time for the Firefox OS 1.2 branch. We expect to get this all landed before the merge and following that we'll be landing some more actors bringing additional features for Firefox OS 1.3. Firefox OS Simulator We recently released version 4 of the Firefox OS simulator and version 5 is in development. This will be the last version that runs Firefox OS 1.1 and perhaps more importantly the last version that includes the dashboard for managing apps. Version 5 of the simulator will also only be compatible up to Firefox 25 as changes to the devtools protocol in Firefox 26 break things after then. Those wanting to test against Firefox 1.1 will have to continue using an older version of Firefox, the Firefox 24 ESR release would work. After this we'll be switching to lighter builds of simulator, moving all the app management side into the new tool in Firefox... App Manager (name TBD) The replacement for the dashboard from simulator is in development and the first pieces have already landed in Firefox. Flip the devtools.appmanager.enabled pref to see it in the web development menu. This simplifies connecting to devices and simulators and listing, installing and debugging apps. For now the ability to connect to a Firefox OS device will require an additional add-on which installs a version of the adb binary. We hope to ship that built into Firefox at a later point. The App Manager will also eventually have a way of downloading and installing different versions of simulator to connect to. Now that the first version has landed and started riding the trains for 26 we'll start working on adding new features that will be supported in Firefox OS 1.3. Features like mocking web APIs and web activities. We expect by next February to have support for connecting to and debugging both Firefox OS 1.2 and 1.3 though the capabilities will differ slightly between those two versions, as they will continue to do as we add more capabilities into later versions of Firefox OS. For now salivate over the screencast of the work: http://people.mozilla.com/~prouget/appmanager.webm and if you have any questions please let me know. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
