Up until recently users granted permissions to apps when they installed or updated the apps. Beginning in Android 6.0 users now grant permissions to an app while the app is running — if supported…
Last week the Firefox for Android team got together in San Francisco for a hack week. Our goal was to make progress on projects related to increasing user engagement, particularly around saving and revisiting content. And progress was made!
Hacktoberfest is a worldwide event to celebrate and support open source. Firefox Daylight for Android will be part of Hacktoberfest again this year, and we have put Hacktoberfest labels on many of our GitHub issues!
When the Android thread annotations such as @UiThread and @WorkerThread were announced, I was excited — I could rest assured that the compiler was on my side, ensuring I wasn’t causing performance hits by writing to disk from the UI thread…
One of our goals for Firefox for Android 42.0 was to create a kid and parent-friendly web experience (Project KinderFox / KidFox): The browser should be easy to use for a kid and at the same time parents want to be in control and decide what the kid…
After upgrading to Android Studio 3.0, I discovered a few mysterious new files in my app’s data directory (/data/data/org.mozilla.focus.debug/, in this case):
/data/data/org.mozilla.focus.debug/
For Project Prox, we were asked to implement a design¹ like this:
March 16, 2018
When looking at a GitHub issue, I often need to know, “What PRs are open for this issue?” I wrote the GitHub Issue Hoister add-on to address my problem.
