Full-Blown Firefox On Android
One of the developers on the Mozilla Firefox team is a guy named Vladimir Vuki?evi? and he has just made a really interesting post on his blog about Firefox and Android. Basically, they’ve got the FULL FIREFOX browser working on Android and although it has some kinks (which he explains) it seems to be working really well.
Why the full Firefox? Because it’s much more complex and complicated to get running on Android… so if they can do THIS version they can do anything. Not a bad approach.
I like some of the things I had to hear about his experience with Android:
- Porting Firefox/Fennec to Android is progressing at a good clip
- Android has been pretty great to work with so far;
- It’s a bit unusual platform for us due to its Java core, but with the NDK we’re able to bridge things together without many problems.
As for the outlook of completion? Nothing to get too excited about but a product is definitely in-the-works and they’re optimistic:
We’re still a ways to go before any kind of usable alpha release, but we’re certainly one step closer. We’ll also be able to accelerate our progress now that we have some of the basic scaffolding in place. I know I’m looking forward to running Fennec on my Droid, and there are tons of Android devices coming out that should be great platforms for Fennec.
Eagerly awaiting!
[Via Giz]
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Full-Blown Firefox On Android
One of the developers on the Mozilla Firefox team is a guy named Vladimir Vuki?evi? and he has just made a really interesting post on his blog about Firefox and Android. Basically, they’ve got the FULL FIREFOX browser working on Android and although it has some kinks (which he explains) it seems to be working really well.
Why the full Firefox? Because it’s much more complex and complicated to get running on Android… so if they can do THIS version they can do anything. Not a bad approach.
I like some of the things I had to hear about his experience with Android:
- Porting Firefox/Fennec to Android is progressing at a good clip
- Android has been pretty great to work with so far;
- It’s a bit unusual platform for us due to its Java core, but with the NDK we’re able to bridge things together without many problems.
As for the outlook of completion? Nothing to get too excited about but a product is definitely in-the-works and they’re optimistic:
We’re still a ways to go before any kind of usable alpha release, but we’re certainly one step closer. We’ll also be able to accelerate our progress now that we have some of the basic scaffolding in place. I know I’m looking forward to running Fennec on my Droid, and there are tons of Android devices coming out that should be great platforms for Fennec.
Eagerly awaiting!
[Via Giz]
July 29th, 2010 at 5:03 pm
I just love what you’re doing with your site. I initially found it a little bit back on yahoo and am grateful that I clicked on your link! There’s some really great, helpful information about the different Android phones and Android apps here.
This is such an exciting time (assuming you’re an Android-geek like myself) to own one of these great phones. I’ve changed my lifestyle dramatically since I got my . A bunch less TV and a lot more monkeying around with my phone. I don’t even feel too bad because some of the amazing Android apps out there are helping me with my everyday life… Well, that’s my excuse anyways!