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KaiOS is a web-based mobile operating system developed by KaiOS Technologies Inc. It is forked from B2G (Boot to Gecko), an open source community-driven successor of Firefox OS which was discontinued by Mozilla in 2016.

KaiOS is a web-based mobile operating system developed by KaiOS Technologies Inc. It is forked from B2G (Boot to Gecko), an open source community-driven successor of Firefox OS which was discontinued by Mozilla in 2016. The first release was published in March 2017. A small range of mobile phones is shipped with KaiOS mainly to the US, Europe, and India. In 2018, Google invested $22M in the operating system according to TechCrunch. In 2019, KaiOS Technologies secures $50 million of Series B funding.

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How to create apps for mobiles which are using KaiOS?

I recently found in news that KaiOS has been used in 4G Volte Enabled feature mobile phones. I was wondering how to create apps for KaiOS. Any help on creating apps for KaiOS has been greatly appreciated.
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How can a Flutter app be proposed on the KaiOS apps store?

When building a Flutter app for iOS or Android or both, one may wish to build it for KaiOS as well. Flutter allows the generation of web applications. KaiOS accepts web applications in its apps store. So, I am wondering whether it is realistic and…
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KaiOS - Share using WhatsApp

I'm trying to develop an app for KaiOS where I want to share text messages with WhatsApp. I tried with deep-links like: app://whatsapp/send whatsapp://send Both didn't work. Does anyone know how share content with WhatsApp?
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Set up KaiOS Environment on Mac OS high Sierra

I followed the KaiOS documentation to set up environment for KaiOS app development but the instructions there provided is only for Debian/unix system most of command is not working because lack of apt in mac. How should I set up KaiOS development…
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Firebase Analytics - file:// based environment support

I am developing an app for KaiOS, a fork of the old Firefox OS, for which apps are based on HTML5 + JS. When compiling and running on device, Firebase analytics stops working. I receive an error as follows. I believe the issue is due to the fact…
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How to implement push notification in KaiOS app

I am trying to implement push notification in KaiOS app. I simply follow below links. W3C Push API Push API introduction Service Worker Cookbook - Web Push Payload After follow all links the push is working in browser but not in KaiOS app. If…
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How to toggle developer mode in Nokia 8110 4G?

There is no menu entry in Nokia 8110 4G to switch to developer mode. How can you enable it without hacking firmware?
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How to implement deeplinks in KaiOS

A user should be able to click on a link like app:this/is/some/link?with=information and the desired app opens and does some action. This question is similar but just the other side to KaiOS - Share using WhatsApp. Another application should link to…
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Do Spreadtrum USB Drivers exist for Linux?

I'm trying to connect to a KaiOS device with adb but whenever I run adb devices I get an empty list of devices, however when I run lsusb I get: Bus 001 Device 017: ID 1782:4001 Spreadtrum Communications Inc. Spreadtrum Phone I've done all the…
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Backspace doesn't work in number input field KaiOS | Svelte3

I've run into this weird problem while developing an app for KaiOS using Svelte3. When the input field is set to type number the backspace doesn't work. At all. When it's set to "text" it works…
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How to use the KaiOS action icons?

According to the KaiOS Developer Page there are some predefined action icons which developers can use in their projects (or they can design new icons by themselves). I'd like to use one of action icons but I don't know how. On aforementioned page…
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Javascript communication between a React component and a js library

I have been working on a Bluetooth based KaiOS mobile application in which the user interfaces have developed using React.js and I had created a simple javascript class to manage the Bluetooth based operations such as scanning, connect/disconnect,…
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KaiOS infinite scrolling

I have a little issue with scrolling in KaiOS. I would like to have the first element selected when the user goes down on the last element. So, I used document.getElementById(element).scrollIntoView(); to get the first element into the view. Works…
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How to access KaiOS native contacts data

I've tried to access the contacts data store using a worker, it worked but it returns 0 data stores when I do: navigator.getDataStores('contacts') Does the native KaiOS contacts app even use a data store? How do I access the native contacts data in…
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Unique device identification for KaiOS featured phones

I am trying to find unique device identification in KaiOS featured phones such as Jio Phone. I am developing an app for featured phone using plain JavaScript and need to uniquely identify each mobile device, I am unable to find any solution for…
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