NativeWindow

The NativeWindow object enables Firefox for Android add-ons to create user interface components.

NativeWindow is available as a property of the chrome window object. For example, if you use this template for initializing your extension, you can access it from the window argument passed into loadIntoWindow():

function loadIntoWindow(window) {
  window.NativeWindow.toast.show("I'm starting!", "short");
}

You can also access the chrome window using nsIWindowMediator:

let window = Services.wm.getMostRecentWindow("navigator:browser");
window.NativeWindow.toast.show("Here's another toast message!", "short");

Obtain NativeWindow object with add-on SDK:

// Obtain commonly used services : Services.jsm
// https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/JavaScript_code_modules/Services.jsm
const { Services } = require("resource://gre/modules/Services.jsm");
function getNativeWindow() {
	let window = Services.wm.getMostRecentWindow("navigator:browser");
	return window.NativeWindow;
}

The NativeWindow object enables developers of Firefox for Android add-ons to create UI components.

It supports the following components:

• Menu items
• Doorhanger notifications
• Context menus items
• Android toast alerts Deprecated since Gecko 45
• Page actions Deprecated since Gecko 34

menu

Add items to the main menu in Firefox for Android. See the menu API documentation.

/*
label: menu label
icon: file:// or data: URI for an icon
callback: JS function called when menu is tapped
returns a menu ID that can be used to remove the menu
*/
let id = NativeWindow.menu.add(label, icon, callback);
NativeWindow.menu.remove(id);

doorhanger

Show and hide doorhanger notifications. See the doorhanger API documentation.

/*
message: displayed text
value: string based tag
buttons: array of JS objects used to create buttons in the notification
tabId: tab associated with this notification
options: JS object that has 'persistence' and 'timeout' options
*/
NativeWindow.doorhanger.show(message, value, buttons, tabId, options);
NativeWindow.doorhanger.hide(value, tabId);

contextmenus

Add and remove context menu items. See the contextmenus API documentation.

/*
label: menu label
selector: JS object that has a 'matches(element)' function. Used to show the menu.
callback: JS function called when menu is tapped
returns a menu ID that can be used to remove the menu
*/
let id = NativeWindow.contextmenu.add(label, selector, callback);
NativeWindow.contextmenu.remove(id);

toast

Show Android toast notifications. See the toast API documentation.

/*
message: displayed text
duration: "short" or "long"; Used for alert timeout
*/
NativeWindow.toast.show(message, duration);

pageactions

Add and remove pageactions, i.e. clickable indicators in the URL bar. See the pageactions API documentation.

/*
title: Pageaction title
icon: Icon image for the pageaction
clickCallback: Callback called when pageaction is clicked
longClickCallback: Callback called when pageaction is long pressed
*/
let options = {
  title: "title",
  icon: "chrome://myaddon/skin/image.png",
  clickCallback: function() { },
  longClickCallback: function() { } (optional)
};
//Adding pageaction
let id = NativeWindow.pageactions.add(options);
//Remove pageaction
NativeWindow.pageactions.remove(id);