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how to code firefox home screen having side panel in android

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guptaprafull1986
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in FireFox Android Application, there is side panel comes while scroll horizontally the screen. I want to know, how this is implemented in android source code.

in FireFox Android Application, there is side panel comes while scroll horizontally the screen. I want to know, how this is implemented in android source code.

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Kevin
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We don't use Java for Firefox. The sidebars are created using a UI toolkit called XUL.

https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-release/file/9f3cb9952ec4/mobile/chrome/content/browser.xul#l198

guptaprafull1986
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Thanks for your response. But i am not able to understand this concept. Can you please share sample source code of this with respect to android?

Thanks in advance. Prafull

Kevin
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Firefox is a C++/JavaScript/XUL application using the Android native development kit. This allows us to use our own UI controls that are cross platform. They have no Java analogue.

http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html