Thanks Julio and Rodrigo for your responses it answered my questions.
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Rodrigo Silveira <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > As Julio mentioned, the APK generated by mozilla have a dependency on > firefox for android being installed. When you submit an app to Firefox > Marketplace, you have the option of enabling installation on android and > desktop as well. You can use webAPIs[1] on your app and firefox will work > as a web-native bridge with the web runtime. Check out this recent mozilla > hacks post on the subject[2]. If you're already using cordova APIs, there's > no real advantage on using this though, it's more for the other way around: > You target FirefoxOS and you get android support "for free". > > [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAPI > [2] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/06/firefox-os-apps-run-on-android/ > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "julio cesar sanchez" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, June 23, 2014 1:32:38 AM > Subject: Re: APK generated from FireFoxOS App? > > Not sure if it's the same thing, but some time ago firefox beta for > android included the option to install firefox os apps on android > phones. > I tried it and the apps were installed as new apps from a server > generated .apk, but it was using the firefox app for opening the > firefox os apps or using something from there, because if you delete > the firefox app the firefox os apps stop working. > > > > 2014-06-21 4:16 GMT+02:00 Carlos Santana <[email protected]>: > > I'm curious about this: > > > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Marketplace/Options/Open_web_apps_for_android > > > > Anyone knows more about how this works and compares to cordova android? > > > > Is generating a cordova android APK? > > Is using android web view or gecko web view? > > Is using some some sort of shim layer call "web runtime" for FirefoxOS > API > > birding to Android? > > > > Anything here to leverage(i.e. Concepts, API separation, packaging on the > > the cloud, etc) for Cordova, maybe in the area of android plug-able web > > views? > > > > -- Carlos > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Carlos Santana > > <[email protected]> > -- Carlos Santana <[email protected]>
