Mobile Firefox add-on development is getting more and more relevant. As Firefox for Android steadily adds users and continues to be top-rated on Google’s Play Store we are also seeing increased traffic from millions of Android users on the Add-ons site looking for themes and extensions. We’re even running a contest to get developers interested… Continue reading
WE SHIPPED!! Unless you’re hiding under a rock, you are probably aware that the Mozilla Project has released Firefox 21 today. Additionally, unless you’ve been completely ignoring my recent posts on this blog, you might also realize that Firefox 21 signals a new chapter in the life of the Jetpack project, as we ship the… Continue reading
Project News Help out Jetpack by using Stack Overflow! You may not be aware, but one of the most common sites where people ask questions about the Add-on SDK is actually on Stackoverflow.com. Questions are marked with the [firefox-addon-sdk] tag, and several new ones appear each week. While you are there, you should also check… Continue reading
Project News We are releasing SDK 1.14rc2 tomorrow, which will also likely be tagged tomorrow as the 1.14 release candidate. In addition to this we are coordinating with the Firefox team and release-drivers to ensure that the code in 1.14 is exactly the same as what we will release in Firefox 21. If you’re maintaining… Continue reading
Project News The entire developer tools team ( including the Jetpack team! ) will be meeting up in California next week to work together and hack on new ideas. As such, there will be no weekly meeting next week. Jetpack Bugmaster Wes Kocher released a module called ‘bmo.js’ that allows SDK developers simple access to… Continue reading
Project News Over the last couple of days I’ve published a couple of posts about the near future of the project as we land the SDK’s apis in Firefox: [part 1] & [part 2]. If you have any feedback on these posts, please comment there, below, or ideally post to the Google group. We took… Continue reading
Project News Much thanks to Mozillian Marc Chevrier for not only reporting but providing a patch for bug 829651. I love it when developers report into bugs with patches! Quick Stats Total open bugs: 436 Bugs created last week: 29 Bugs fixed last week: 18 Total SDK-based Add-ons on AMO: 1,421 Open pull requests on… Continue reading
Project News It’s a new year! And with that comes a new SDK product road-map for 2013! The blog post is here, and if you have any feedback we’d love to hear about it on this Google groups thread. Quick Stats Total open bugs: 436 Bugs created last week: 17 Bugs fixed last week: 10… Continue reading
Project News We released 1.12 last Tuesday, but there was no weekly update here due to a particularly busy week at an Add-ons Work Week last week. Even better, despite some major differences introduced in SDK 1.12, Piotr was able to get Builder updated to support 1.12 last Wednesday. Today’s Jetpack meeting was the last… Continue reading
I’m pleased to announce that we have released SDK 1.12 today; you can download the SDK directly in either zip or tarball format. Update: The Add-on Builder has now been updated to support SDK 1.12. What’s new? Enhancements to simple-prefs. I’m really pleased to include in this release some much-needed enhancements to the simple-prefs module… Continue reading
