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Does this actually support the interesting parts of phone APIs like push messaging (and notifications), bluetooth, in app billing via the stores etc.?

And is it compatible with the equivalent Chrome OS APIs or are we looking at writing web apps two different ways?

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Yeah, a lot of web APIs have implementations that connect directly to the Android equivalent. When writing a web app you'd always use a "web" API though. Some of those APIs are still very new and Chrome and Mozilla haven't reached consensus yet so you'd have to deal with prefixing and what not.

Mozilla's APIs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API

Some of the APIs you list (like Bluetooth[1]) are available on Firefox OS, but only for system applications and not yet in Firefox for Android or desktop. This may change if the API becomes a web standard in the future.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAPI/WebBluetooth

in-app billing is coming soon, as is simple push; the other API's will appear on Firefox for Android (and therefore be available to these apps) on an API-by-API basis, see https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI

some API's are the same as Chrome OS, some are not; we are talking regularly with those folks about standardizing API's.

I work on the service and CLI, so I'm probably wrong... but I think we're incrementally fixing these.

See https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/06/testing-your-native-androi... for an example

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