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Another Hacking Gaia Tutorial

Published on June 6, 2014.

More than two months ago I had update a tutorial that Salvador de la Puente González wrote about hacking Gaia, the Firefox OS UI. Most of the steps are the same but using Simulator 2.0 is a little different and at this blog post I will cover this changes.

Step 0: set-up

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If you want pictures related with this part, go to the previous tutorial.

  1. Install Firefox. If you want you can try use the nightly version of Firefox but I’m getting a little problem with it, for more information see Bug 1020520.
  2. Enter about:app-namager in the URL bar.
  3. Click on “Start Simulator at the bottom of the page.
  4. Click on “Add”.
  5. Click on “Install Simulator”.
  6. Select “Install Firefox OS 2.0 Simulator (unstable)” and follow the steps to install the simulator.

Step 1: Download and hack Gaia

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Virtual Keyboard for Tablets

Published on June 5, 2014.

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This post was previous published at blog.rgaiacs.com. Some links might got broken during the conversion from reStructuredText to Markdown.

Yesterday a friend wrote a blog post regarding the Firefox OS Tablet Keyboard where he compare the virtual keyboard of Firefox OS Tablet with the virtual keyboard of others players (webOS, Android and iOS).

IMHO, one of the main points of the blog post was:

"To make our keyboard more useful we could use some new keys such as (...) number row. We could use a number row on top or some clever way to input numbers."

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Math Virtual Keyboard Specifications

Published on June 5, 2014.

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This post was previous published at blog.rgaiacs.com. Some links might got broken during the conversion from reStructuredText to Markdown.

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I should have done this at the first day of GSoC. =(

Bug 983043 is a meta bug where Firefox OS UX team make available the most updated version of Firefox OS Keyboard Specifications. Have the specifications in hand is awesome because you know what you need to do.

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Flatfish and (La)TeX

Published on June 3, 2014.

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This post was previous published at blog.rgaiacs.com. Some links might got broken during the conversion from reStructuredText to Markdown.

This is a "How to" for people that are tracking my GSoC project and in this post you will find steps to test the first prototype of my GSoC project. I hope that you like it and I will love to get any type of feedbacks.

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This blog post have some screenshots of my Flatfish running

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GSoC: May 26 - June 01

Published on June 2, 2014.

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This post was previous published at blog.rgaiacs.com. Some links might got broken during the conversion from reStructuredText to Markdown.

This is one of the reports about my GSoC project and cover the second week of "Students coding".

The second week wasn't as great I was hoping before it start. Again I waste time trying to build all the Firefox OS stack since I fail on this task. The good news is that I got the Flatfish tablet and wrote a better demo to test the keyboard. Bellow you will find more details about the past week and the plans for this one.

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