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Using Android as a base

Using Android as a base

Posted Sep 5, 2013 16:43 UTC (Thu) by wlach (subscriber, #23397)
In reply to: Using Android as a base by njwhite
Parent article: Firefox OS on the ZTE Open

FirefoxOS is basically Android with the Dalvik/Java bits removed and replaced with a very specialized copy of mobile Firefox/Gecko. I wouldn't say there's a very close coupling between Android and FirefoxOS -- most of our development efforts occur either in Firefox/Gecko or the web applications which run on top of it.


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