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" <jcesarmob...@gmail.com> To: dev@cordova.apache.org 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 <csantan...@gmail.com>: > 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 > <csantan...@gmail.com>
