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This page has been deleted because it's archaic. Please see the main [[Mobile/Fennec/Android | Fennec]] development page.
 
== Features ==
 
*Awesome Bar – Go to your favorite sites in just a couple of keystrokes with intelligent and personalized searching
*Firefox Sync – Sync your Firefox tabs, history, bookmarks and passwords between your desktop and mobile device for a seamless browsing experience
*Tabbed browsing – View open tabs as thumbnails to easily identify and select the Web page you’d like to go to next
 
*Fast - Instantly startup (<300ms)
*Small - Low memory usage (consistent with other browsers)
*Energy - Doesn't eat your battery
 
== Background ==
 
* http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2011/11/firefox-for-android-nightly-channel-switches-to-native-ui-builds/
* http://madhava.com/egotism/archive/005058.html
* http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/11/-mozilla-is-working-on.ars
 
== Nightly Builds ==
 
If you want to try the new NativeUI on your Android device, you can download the latest nightly builds here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Platforms/Android#Download_Nightly
 
What's in them? See here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fennec/NativeUI/NightlyFeatures
 
== How To Build, Test, and Debug  ==
 
The project repository is here: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central
 
Follow the instructions from [[Mobile/Fennec/Android]].
 
== Architecture ==
 
*[[Fennec/NativeUI/Architecture Overview|Overview]]
*[[Fennec/NativeUI/Messages|Messaging between Java and XUL/JS]]
*[[Fennec/NativeUI/Viewport|Viewport]]
 
== Design ==
 
The UI design is under revision, to make it simpler and to make more use of standard Android controls (i.e. hardware/system menu button, back button) and to make sure that more touchevents can be passed directly to web content.
 
Overview and detail here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fennec/NativeUI/UserExperience
 
== Coding Style ==
[[Mobile/Fennec/Android#Coding_Style]]
 
== QA ==
 
*Contact: Kevin Brosnan (kbrosnan)
*Bugs: [https://etherpad.mozilla.org/fennec-native-ui-qa-bugs Fennec native UI testing]
*Notes: [https://etherpad.mozilla.org/testing-native-fennec Fennec native UI notes]
 
== Weekly Showcase  ==
 
*Wednesdays @ 12:00 PDT/Warp Core
*[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fennec/NativeUI/Notes_10-26-2011 Notes 10-26]
*[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fennec/NativeUI/Showcase11-9  11-9]
*[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fennec/NativeUI/Showcase11-16 11-16]
*[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fennec/NativeUI/Showcase11-23 11-23]
*[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fennec/NativeUI/Showcase11-30 11-30]

Latest revision as of 21:26, 12 August 2013

This page has been deleted because it's archaic. Please see the main Fennec development page.