{"id":1488,"date":"2010-04-08T10:14:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T17:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2010-04-08T10:14:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T17:14:27","slug":"last-chance-to-take-the-mobile-add-on-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2010\/04\/08\/last-chance-to-take-the-mobile-add-on-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Chance to Take the Mobile Add-on Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This post is by Caitlin Looney from the Firefox Mobile team.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/files\/2010\/04\/mobile_challenge_banner.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1489\" title=\"mobile_challenge_banner\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/files\/2010\/04\/mobile_challenge_banner-300x133.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/files\/2010\/04\/mobile_challenge_banner-300x133.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/files\/2010\/04\/mobile_challenge_banner.jpg 710w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/En\/Mobile\/Challenge\">Mobile Add-on Challenge<\/a> ends this Monday, April 12, which means this is your last weekend to develop a killer mobile add-on for your chance to get cool Mozilla Mobile swag and a new <a href=\"http:\/\/maemo.nokia.com\/n900\/\">Nokia N900<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Add-on developers are challenged to develop a compatible Firefox  mobile add-on that shows innovation and considers the mobile context  (small screen size, touch screen, out and about, etc.) At the end of the Challenge, our panel of judges (consisting  of members from the Mobile and Add-ons teams) will select ten winners  who will receive a new\u00a0  in addition to other great mobile merchandise!<\/p>\n<p>The last challenge resulted in many fantastic add-ons. <a href=\"http:\/\/missmobile.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/14\/congrats-to-our-mobile-add-on-challenge-winners\/\">Check  out our previous winners\u2019 award-winning add-ons<\/a> that have been  recognized by press around the globe. Despite these awesome innovations,  there is much more room to help enhance the look, feel and  functionality of Firefox on mobile devices. Here are some themes the  Mozilla Mobile team finds especially interesting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Using device APIs:<\/strong> js-ctypes (Fennec 1.0)  might be  used to hook into the device (addressbook or camera) and add   functionality to a Web app by making a pagemod (jetpack- or   greasemonkey-like add-on)<br \/>\n<em>Check out these helpful resources  around js-cytypes:<br \/>\n<\/em> <em><a rel=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en\/JavaScript_code_modules\/ctypes.jsm\">ctypes   on Mobile Developer Center <\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<em> <a rel=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/#_http:\/\/blog.desre.org\/post\/2009\/11\/19\/Using-GStreamer-with-js-ctypes_#\">blog   post using GStreamer js-ctypes <\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Photo,  media, social and sharing tools<\/strong>: Create a  social aggregator for  quickly viewing streams from Twitter, Facebook,  etc; Create a tool for  sharing images, links and text<\/li>\n<li><strong>Saving files and Session  Restore<\/strong>: Save as PDF,  Save Image, Remember last open tabs,  etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So what are you waiting for? Develop an add-on for Firefox for a  chance to win a new phone, and most importantly, see your innovation  used by people around the world on multiple platforms and devices!\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/En\/Mobile\/Challenge\"> See the  complete contest details and rules here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Many thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forum.nokia.com\/\">Forum  Nokia<\/a>, Nokia\u2019s Developer portal for supporting this challenge!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is by Caitlin Looney from the Firefox Mobile team. Our Mobile Add-on Challenge ends this Monday, April 12, which means this is your last weekend to develop a &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2010\/04\/08\/last-chance-to-take-the-mobile-add-on-challenge\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Last Chance to Take the Mobile Add-on Challenge - Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2010\/04\/08\/last-chance-to-take-the-mobile-add-on-challenge\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Nick Nguyen\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2010\/04\/08\/last-chance-to-take-the-mobile-add-on-challenge\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2010\/04\/08\/last-chance-to-take-the-mobile-add-on-challenge\/\",\"name\":\"Last Chance to Take the Mobile Add-on Challenge - 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