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Christopher Price
Aug 10, 2016, 3:38:25 AM8/10/16
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The whole Firefox OS to B2G migration is hard to follow, and seems to keep evolving. At last week’s meeting, Project Tablet appears to have been cancelled by Mozilla’s board.
This gives some opportunity for B2GDroid to actually come back into the Firefox fold, and serve that Project Tablet vision.
It would be very easy to default-boot an Android device to B2GDroid (and have that serve as the home screen). The concerns of the board regarding app compatibility would be resolved, as Android apps could be called (even Google Play) from inside the B2G shell.
Is B2GDroid still actively being maintained? There was literally only one other message showing in the archives, so I’m setting the expectations low this morning… but I think this would be a good opportunity for Mozilla to look back into.
Fabrice Desré
Aug 10, 2016, 10:34:03 AM8/10/16
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Hi Christopher,
Unfortunately no, b2gdroid is not maintained anymore. The code was
removed from mozilla central.
That being said, it was fairly self contained so this should be possible
to maintain it "out of tree". The prototype also showed a number a UX
issues that would have to be seriously addressed, and we never got the
resources for that.
cheers,
Fabrice
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Unfortunately no, b2gdroid is not maintained anymore. The code was
removed from mozilla central.
That being said, it was fairly self contained so this should be possible
to maintain it "out of tree". The prototype also showed a number a UX
issues that would have to be seriously addressed, and we never got the
resources for that.
cheers,
Fabrice
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Christopher Price
Aug 10, 2016, 10:56:19 AM8/10/16
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You might want to make the case for it to comeback. I saw the Project Tablet prospectus - that document alone cost a ton to make. I don’t have to have contacts at Mozilla to know from that PPT (which I’m amazed went public) that Mozilla has a commercial interest in the tablet space.
B2GDroid is low-touch in terms of modification, and allows you to take any tablet and make it a reference.
It’s not my war to fight, B2G is still an unstable mess in my view, even where it’s supposed to be gunning for (IoT/TV/etc). But if Mozilla does want to pursue tablets, B2GDroid would net Mozilla a Mozilla tablet for the 50% that hasn’t adopted a tablet - with full Android app compatibility.
Up to you guys to make the case internally, I’d be shouting in the wind out here.
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