On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 9:47 AM, Paul Rouget wrote:
> And we can’t use dev-doc-needed to keep a reference up to date (too
> often, we forget about the flag, and like Chris said, the MDN editors
> are very busy too), and that’s clearly the responsibility of the
> developer, not of the MDN team.
Ev
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 9:14 PM, Andrew Sutherland
wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015, at 09:41 PM, J. Ryan Stinnett wrote:
>> At the moment, once a toolbox opens, the toolbox still takes the full
>> width of the window, however it no longer goes full height. You can
>> resize
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Andrew Sutherland
wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015, at 07:51 PM, J. Ryan Stinnett wrote:
>> We are thinking of removing the dropdown layout and switching to the
>> sidebar one permanently. If there are some valid concerns for keeping
>> it as i
Currently WebIDE uses dropdowns for selecting project and runtime
items. We've been working on a version of the interface that removes
the dropdowns and replaces them with sidebars.
Check out a screenshot[1] of the sidebar mode to learn more.
You can try out this sidebar mode by setting the
"devt
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Michael Henretty
wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 5:59 PM, J. Ryan Stinnett wrote:
>>
>> It seems the list is currently configured to use mailman style archives:
>>
>> https://lists.mozilla.org/pipermail/dev-fxos/
>
>
>
>
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Chris Mills wrote:
> Also, I assumed there would be a google group at
>
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mozilla.dev.fxos
>
> to go along with the new mailing list, but this doesn’t seem to exist.
It seems the list is currently configured to use mailman
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Dan Callahan wrote:
> (Compiling the entirety of b2g and desktop Fx to test each change was a bit
> more than I'm used to, coming from the Python / Node.js worlds.)
Testing on real devices is important, but for a lot of DevTools
changes you can use B2G Desktop to
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Eitan Isaacson wrote:
> So whats the migration path for the hackerplace directory? Should I be
> updating my addon and submitting a pull request?
See Michael's dev-b2g thread "Putting new Add-ons on Hackerplace".
- Ryan
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The Firefox OS Simulator add-on is still based on B2G desktop today.
In the past, we've released new add-ons by pulling XPIs from B2G
desktop build runs in automation (for all existing platforms).
There's been discussion about having the simulator use Mulet instead,
but so far no action has been
On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 10:41 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
> At the very least I'd like to see solid data on that CDNs most of the
> time support updating the manifest in-place
I might be misreading the question, but I'll give it a try.
>From both past work experience and vendor docs, CDN vendors typ
On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Gabriele Svelto wrote:
> We've identified a rather bad battery-draining issue that had lingered
> in our codebase for a long time in bug 1173140 [1]. Fabrice just landed
> a fix in bug 1180533 [2] so it should trickle down to devices with the
> next update (not sure
Adding Jordan and Victor, who may have more details on the DevTools option.
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 5:10 AM, Wilson Page wrote:
> AFAIK there are two ways to profile an app:
>
> 'profile.sh' - Build a custom B2G with the `MOZ_PROFILING=1` flag and use
> `profile.sh` script in the B2G repo.
>
> A
As the error message suggests, is this a Firefox profile that has been
used with a newer version of Firefox before?
- Ryan
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 12:39 AM, MOS wrote:
> hi
> i using firefox portable(ver38)
> but i Encounter with following error with WebIDE:
>
> when open WebIDE it show me:
>
>
In case it was unclear, when setting the dump pref
"browser.dom.window.dump.enabled", you have to set it *for the FxOS
device*, not in Firefox on desktop. You can either edit the prefs.js
file on the device, or use WebIDE's Device Preferences feature to do
this.
- Ryan
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 6:0
I am excited to announce that we’re now shipping WiFi debugging for
Firefox OS! It’s available in Firefox OS 3.0 / master with Firefox
Nightly on desktop. To learn more, check out my post[1].
Our hope is that this will be more convenient for most developers than
USB debugging. Along with not needi
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 2:12 PM, wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 24, 2015 at 2:55:53 PM UTC-4, Julien Wajsberg wrote:
>> > I have a big issue with adb: it can't see any of my phones. "adb
>> > devices" returns an empty list.
>> > It came all of a sudden: I updated nothing, it just appeared today. This
Attachments don't come through on the mailing list. Can we post this
somewhere and link to it?
- Ryan
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Wesly Huang wrote:
> Sorry for late, besides the release note Mike attached before (I can't see
> the attachment but assume it's the release note provided by T2M
The WebIDE DevTools team would like to better understand how people
would prefer to interact with WebIDE. There have been some past
threads about using it in a browser tab, as a separate app, etc. so it
would be very useful for us to learn more about what people want.
I've created a very quick pol
Is the code for your app open source, on GitHub or something similar?
It would be easiest to investigate with access to the code you're running.
I tried your app for a little bit, but did not see any use of images so far.
- Ryan
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Niladri dutta wrote:
> On Sunda
Sure, that's fine.
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Niladri dutta wrote:
> On Sunday, January 25, 2015 at 4:10:21 PM UTC+5:30, Niladri dutta wrote:
>> Hi All, I am trying to show an animated GIF image while making an ajax
>> request. I am able to see the image in the Firefox browser(v 35.0).But
> Is there any restriction about the display of Animated GIF image in the
> firefox OS simulator? I am runing the simulator(v 1.3) from webIDE but the
> image is not showing up.However it is displayed properly in browser(v 35).I
> can only see the alternative text in simulator.Can you please adv
It would be easier to investigate with more details about your app / web site.
Can you provide a link I can use to try it out here?
- Ryan
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 12:46 AM, Niladri dutta wrote:
> Still no solution to this :(
>
> On Sunday, January 25, 2015 at 4:10:21 PM UTC+5:30, Niladri dutta
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Giovanny Andres Gongora Granada
wrote:
> Thanks for all the answers. I filled a bug in Firefox OS :: Developer Tools
> because I think that a button to revert this without need of WebIDE. If is
> activated in the phone, the user should be able to deactivate it in t
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 9:14 PM, Giovanny Andres Gongora Granada
wrote:
> Hi Ryan,
>
> Is an interesting feature and for sure it will be useful for many people
> (include me and I think in speakers with demos). But I need to ask
> somethings that I can't understand at all. It says on the page that
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Giovanny Andres Gongora Granada
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> A few days I installed a build from master (v3.0 now) and at Developer
> section now I am seeing a button that says "Reset and root the phone". Could
> I know what is the purpose of this button? Where I or someon
Looking at the Matchstick developer guide[1], it seems there are expecting
a very specialized type of app, so we should probably think about it
separately from Panasonic / TV vendors, since I would expect them to be
different environments, even if they both appear on a TV screen in the end.
Jan an
You'll need to enable unrestricted app debugging[1] to see all of the apps.
[1]:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/WebIDE#Unrestricted_app_debugging_%28including_certified_apps.2C_main_process.2C_etc.%29
- Ryan
On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 11:57 AM, A. Crespo wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I am
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Nino Vranešič
wrote:
> Hello,
> I have pulled databases (Contacts, SMS) from Firefox OS device and would
> like to know how to import them in Firefox OS simulator.
>
> Which files do I need and where should I put them (location, using
> Windows) so they will be di
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Yusuke YAMAMOTO
wrote:
> > Oh! That's because you are building Firefox instead of B2G.
> Ah, that make sense!
>
> I tried to build to add 2 opstion[1], but I didn't get xpi file...
> [1] ac_add_options --enable-application=b2g
> GAIADIR=/path/to/gaia
>
> The
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 3:51 AM, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Oct 2014, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
>
>> I'm currently working on a networking patch for b2g (bug 1008091), but
>> when I send it on a try-run adventure I get cppunit test failures on the b2g
>> emulator.
>
>
> Replying to myself, b
We recently changed the default developer access level for 2.1 and later.
We realized that, by default, we should protect all installed apps,
not "certified" apps semi-randomly. While most Gaia apps are
certified apps, you can definitely have very private data that should
be protected in any type
It's a bit tricky, as it tries to build both 32-bit and 64-bit code,
but this error says you're missing the 32-bit stuff.
See the wiki[1] about this issue. I would suggest trying solution #2
listed there.
[1]:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Building#Emulator_build_issues
- Ryan
If you are trying to test an app your developing, it would be much
easier to use the Simulator[1] with WebIDE, instead of the Emulator.
See more about different ways[2] to run Firefox OS.
[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Firefox_OS_Simulator
[2]:
https://developer.mozilla.org/
Maybe there is a nice way, but if not...
You can look at a test run[1] from Try to see what it does. Search for
"scripts/scripts/b2g_emulator_unittest.py" to see where the host
machine starts the test run.
The automation team may have a nicer answer for you though!
[1]:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/p
Bug 975084 just landed on m-c, which adds the needed server-side
support to inspect FxOS browser tabs from WebIDE.
After updating your device to include this, you can use the DevTools
toolbox with remote browser tabs, just like you can today with apps on
the device. They appear at the bottom of th
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 9:59 PM, Michael Henretty wrote:
> Is it possible to make the WebIDE talk to a custom build of b2g-desktop (or
> one downloaded from pvt)?
There are several approaches you can take:
* Run your b2g-desktop build with "-start-debugger-server PORT" and
use WebIDE's remote r
Yeah, the docs should be clarified a bit...
You currently need the same "unlimited" DevTools access to target the
main process as you do for certified apps (and that section describes
getting such access), but the docs do not currently mention or discuss
that this also enables you to reach the mai
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Chris Mills wrote:
>
> Does this look ok? Please suggest or add more details as you deem necessary.
Looks good to me! Thanks Chris.
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Chris -
I think it would be helpful to document the difference between the
variants, maybe with a table or something. This is something I found
quite confusing when getting started with the project.
I wasn't sure where to best put this info on MDN. Is there an existing
page this would fit into, o
WebIDE[1] should be able to detect the emulator as a "USB device". You
can then use it to push your app.
[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/WebIDE
- Ryan
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Louis_Chang wrote:
> Do anyone know how to flash the application to emulator(where to put
Hmm, but it works on real devices, just not the simulator... Are you
sure that CSP is an issue here?
The Keeper app is also a hosted app. That page makes it seem like the
CSP doesn't apply to hosted apps by default, but I don't know for
certain.
- Ryan
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Frederik
It's possible this is a Simulator specific issue, as I've also seen
this happen to the mozilla.org home page in the 2.2 Simulator.
Jonathon, the image suggests you are testing on a simulator. If so,
which exact build (from the Add-on Manager)?
- Ryan
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Kartikaya Gu
Please file a bug about this[1].
I agree it's bad, so let's work together to figure out how to fix it
in the bug. I have not seen this happen locally with latest Nightly,
so we'll need to work out why it happened to you.
Please include any details that may seem relevant, such as apps you
have, ve
If you use WebIDE (with its ADB Helper for USB devices) but also
occasionally run external ADB commands like "adb logcat" from your
terminal, keep reading.
In the past, if you ran "adb logcat" or some other ADB command outside
Firefox, launched Firefox, and then closed it, it would kill the ADB
se
I believe this is due to the CSP[1] applied to packaged apps. Inline
scripts aren't allowed. See that page for more info.
[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps/CSP
- Ryan
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Nawfel BGH wrote:
> Hello, This is a simplified code to reproduce a bug in firefox
This is great to hear!
Do we need to let the MDN docs team / someone else know to update docs
about this for app developers, so they can learn about this new
ability? This seems like something that quite a few developers might
be interested in.
- Ryan
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Kyle Machul
As a some observant people have noticed, WebIDE (which replaces App
Manager) is now enabled by default in Nightly. Everyone on the App
Tools team has been working hard to polish this new tool that we
originally announced back in June.
For more details about this, see my blog post[1] or the MDN pag
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 4:01 AM, Jan Jongboom wrote:
> We realize that in all docs we write and demo's we gave we tell people to use
> the App Manager and now its gone from nightly?
App Manager is being replaced by WebIDE[1], which has just been
enabled by default in Nightly, which also hides th
Is your camera app a certified app? If so, you'll need to enable
certified app debugging first by setting a pref on the device[1].
[1]:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Using_the_App_Manager#Debugging_Certified_Apps_2
- Ryan
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 7:06 AM, Fecny Smith wrote:
> H
I don't recall ever having to use "sudo" when flashing a device from
OS X, so I am a bit unsure why a few people have found that they need
it suddenly.
Chris, perhaps the permissions on those scripts aren't set correctly?
If you do "ls -l shallow_flash.sh", what do you get back?
- Ryan
On Thu, A
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Julien Wajsberg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> it's been quite a long time I worked on Gecko, and now I see that merely
> running "./build.sh gecko" also runs the gaia build. Why is this happening?
> The gaia build takes a really _really_ long time (especially with the
> default
On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 7:16 AM, Jovan Gerodetti
wrote:
> I just started a to develop a new app, added some UI and among others a text
> input field. But every time I start the app in the Simulator and click on
> the input field the cursor appears and then the simulator crashes...
>
> I use the Fi
Do we keep factory images of devices around anywhere?
For example, if I wanted to debug an issue that a user is seeing with
the Flame as arrived from the factory by restoring to that condition,
is there a good way to do that?
- Ryan
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On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Gabriela Montagu wrote:
>
> On 5 June 2014 17:09, Robert Kaiser wrote:
>>
>> App Manager is part of Firefox itself, you don't need an add-on to get it.
>> That said, it might install the ADB helper add-ons or so, but that doesn't
>> change that with a current Firef
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 8:25 PM, Bob Thulfram wrote:
> I saw somewhere that the screen size would be 400 x 800 pixels. I just
> got my ZTE Open C today and when I ran a simple test for innerWidth,
> innerHeight, outerWidth, outerHeight, I only got
>
> 320x533 for outer and 320x513 for inner. Am I
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Orlando Romero wrote:
> Ok, that seems to be a patch. I downloaded the client from here:
> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/b2g/nightly/latest-mozilla-central/
> and I don't know how to apply this patch or what place. But I discovered
> something curious: m
For this issue, I think we'll need more info before it can be
resolved. It might be easiest if you stop by the #devtools room on IRC
or file a bug report[1].
Good things to include:
* What OS are you running?
* What exact build of the Simulator do you have (from the Add-on Manager)?
* Enable verb
The 1.4 and later simulators are built in a different way, and for the
moment, they do not offer options to set a custom runtime or Gaia profile
like the earlier simulators. We would like to bring those options back
though.
You can follow this work in bug 970298.
- Ryan
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at
The preferences that store these settings contain the key
"fxos_1_3_simulator". Using the about:config page, you can search for all
such prefs and reset them to their initial values.
- Ryan
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Prateek Jadhwani <
prateekjadhw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I
The steps Walter posted should only be needed if you want to manipulate
certified apps via the App Manager.
But yes, please look over the wiki page he linked. You may want to try the
ADB Helper addon, so you don't need to explicitly forward from the terminal.
If you are still having issues, check
e:
>>
>>> Hello Prateek,
>>>
>>> J. Ryan is absolutly right. u with simulators 1.3+ u should be able to
>>> use App manager. ( about:app-manager). it really works well and is
>>> awesomely good.
>>>
>>> i tried it with the s
With 1.2+, you should be able to use the App Manager[1]. It should work
well for regular apps, and hopefully most certified apps too.
However, I have never tried using it to update the code of the system app.
I am a bit skeptical that it will work... but you can always give it a try!
:) If you fin
Abhiram -
It's usually easiest to resolve these issues over IRC. If you'll stop by
the #devtools room, that's likely to be the fastest way to resolve this.
Otherwise if that's not possible, what OS are you using on your machine?
- Ryan
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Abhiram Chintangal wrote:
Unfortunately, we don't support 1.1 devices with the App Manager, as they
are missing a number of things that would be needed for a good debugging
experience with a new Firefox build.
However, it should be possible to push this kind of app to a 1.1 device
using the "old" 1.1 Simulator (which works
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 1:19 PM, an wrote:
> I'm building on a Debian Wheezy box (on which I've previously built for
> inari device without problems) for the emulator and am getting:
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGL. I have all required libraries installed and
> recommended symbolic links done. Ca
If you're able to get on IRC[1], I'd suggest stopping by #devtools. It's
easiest to debug these sorts of issues in real time.
[1]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/IRC
- Ryan
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Towfique anam wrote:
> Hi,
> I am running a ubuntu 12.04 precise 64 bit edition, and I have tr
I am trying to flash my Keon with a debug build from master so that I can
use GDB to debug an issue.
When I flash the system partition (which I assumed would be a good way to
get gdbserver and whatever else I may need to debug on the device), I end
up with a black screen and the following log on s
The above snippet doesn't contain any errors, so start by doing what it
suggests: Run "./build.sh -j1" for better messages.
- Ryan
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Techno Buddha wrote:
> Hello all,
> I'm trying to figure out what my next step is with regards to ICS and
> galaxys2
>
> #1 make di
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 12:18 PM, jezra wrote:
> I never said it was a 3rd party update, but I would definitely prefer
> if the update files weren't hosted on 3rd party file locker. Trust only
> goes so far.
>
In the Hacks blog post Julien linked to, the files are hosted on Dropbox
from account c
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Worik Stanton wrote:
> On 29/01/14 07:07, J. Ryan Stinnett wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Worik Stanton >wrote:
> >
> >> On 28/01/14 05:52, J. Ryan Stinnett wrote:
> >>> No changes have been made thus f
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Worik Stanton wrote:
> On 28/01/14 05:52, J. Ryan Stinnett wrote:
> > No changes have been made thus far, so the process remains the same for
> all
> > versions >= 1.2. 1.3 should work fine by following the instructions on
> the
> >
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Worik Stanton wrote:
> On 18/09/13 05:47, J. Ryan Stinnett wrote:
> >
> > If you have a developer build of 1.2 and would like to enable debugging
> of
> > certified apps on your device, I've added the necessary steps[1] on th
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 9:45 AM, BenNG wrote:
> Hi there !
>
> Good idea bit it doesn't work
>
> $ adb shell stop-b2g
> /system/bin/sh: stop-b2g: not found
>
The command you are looking for is "adb shell stop b2g" (no hyphen).
- Ryan
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On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 2:02 PM, wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
> I'm trying to debug the content of a web page in the Firefox OS browser
> (Firefox). Reading the documentation I tryed to use the App Manager,
> enabling the debug of certified apps. Everything worked as expected, but
> when I started
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Prateek Jadhwani wrote:
> Hey Guys,
>
> I am Having trouble with my geeksphone peak. The firefox simulator
> dashboard
> is not able to detect it. Here are some options that are selected on my
> phone
>
> USB Storage : Enabled
> Developer Menu
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Benjamin Smedberg
wrote:
> I've been trying to do a B2G emulator build on mac to debug a tinderbox
> error and been having a dickens of a time. The last error that doesn't seem
> to be documented anywhere is:
>
> host Executable: triangleV2 (out/host/darwin-x86/ob
Juanma -
I am not aware of known issues with this.
Are you using the simulator or a device?
What version of Fx OS?
It may be easier to diagnose if you stop by #devtools on IRC.
- Ryan
On Dec 3, 2013 4:34 PM, "Juanma" wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am experiencing problems to debug apps loaded in the
770a5a5f305b23896d7805f6b2637e3a2919cee
> > Date: Sat Nov 2 07:55:55 2013 -0700
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > ====
> > 薛高照 Orson Hsueh
> > Skype: orson.hsueh
> >
> >
> >
>
What version of Firefox OS is installed on the device?
- Ryan
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 9:18 PM, Orson wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Using Firefox Nightly v.28.0 the simulator dashboard.
> After pressing the Push button, but can not install the App to Flatfish
> Device.
>
> Console log:
> ~/firefox$ sudo
I am trying to build the emulator (I've tried both "emulator" and
"emulator-x86") for the first time in a while, but I keep getting errors.
I am using OS X 10.8.5 with Xcode 5.0.1. I believe I have all build
dependencies and have set things up to use gcc 4.6.
Here's the error I get:
host Executa
This would also be valuable for the App Manager team. We'd like to be able
to test how the DebuggerServer is started on B2G, as we currently see a lot
of breakages there since there is no coverage of this code path.
Is anything I can do to help make a case for including a test runner like
this for
On Monday, November 4, 2013 10:36:24 AM UTC-6, Zac Campbell wrote:
> It's even worse than that; there's even "desktopb2g" which is more like
> the Simulator but running stand alone and then there are even some devs
> that debug Gaia apps by loading it directly in Firefox desktop.
My understanding
better solution for the 1.3 timeframe so that
we can expose an option to enable this on all devices, while also balancing
the security issues involved.
Thanks,
J. Ryan Stinnett
[1]:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/Using_the_App_Manager#Debugging
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Julien Wajsberg wrote:
> Le 17/09/2013 19:47, J. Ryan Stinnett a écrit :
> > [1]:
> >
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/Using_the_App_Manager#Debugging_Certified_Apps
>
> I suppose it's possible to simply
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