Building Apps for Firefox OS
May 08, 2015
Slides from the Getting Started with Firefox OS event in the Mozilla space in London on 7th December 2012 http://www.meetup.com/FirefoxOS/events/90510272/
The event was intended to get people building their first Hello World app for Firefox OS.
The event was intended to get people building their first Hello World app for Firefox OS.
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Here to Help
BenMozilla
FranciscoTelefonica
ThomasBlueVia
FernandoTelefonica
ZacMozilla
"A complete, standalone operating system for the open web."
The Web is the PlatformIn Firefox OS, everything is a web app. Just HTML5, CSS and JavaScript.
wiki.mozilla.org/Gaia
Web APIsWeb APIs extend the capabilities of the web to include, and in places exceed, the capabilities of competing stacks.
wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI
Open Web AppsApps built with standard web technologies in an open ecosystem with multiple app stores.
marketplace.firefox.com/developers/
1. {2. "name": "My App",3. "description": "My elevator pitch goes here",4. "launch_path": "/",5. "icons": {6. "128": "/img/icon-128.png"7. },8. "developer": {9. "name": "Your name or organization",
10. "url": "http://your-homepage-here.org"11. },12. "default_locale": "en"13. }
manifest.webapp
Firefox Development Tools
Firefox OS Simulator
You will need...
1. A text editor2. A web server3. A web browser
(Firefox Nightly with the Firefox OS Simulator extension)
Let's get hacking!etherpad.mozilla.org/firefoxos-apps
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