Mozilla Is Making an Android-Based Mobile OS
July 26th, 2011Via: Gizmodo:
Choice is a wonderful thing, but successful restaurants have smaller menus for a reason. If you’ve been grappling with making a decision on phone platforms as is, Mozilla’s about to chuck their hat into the ring with their Boot to Gecko mobile platform.
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So where does Android fit into all of it? Mozilla understands that it’s difficult creating a new platform from the ground up, so is taking some of Android’s code that lets it work on hardware, and will add a new UI and application stack pulled from Firefox’s cross-platform layout engine Gecko. Lest you think this is just another Android phone with custom UI over it, think again—Mozilla has boldly said they won’t be adopting the Java language used in Android, nor will they support native code programming.
