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Ruth John (Rumyra)
October 10, 2013
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Building apps for FirefoxOS
Full talk slides introducing how to start building apps for Firefox OS
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October 10, 2013
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Transcript
ì Building apps for Firefox OS
Hello ì Hi, I’m Ruth ì Work in
The Lab at o2 (Telefonica) ì UX, Design, Front End Dev ì @rumyra
But what the? ì It’s an OperaIng System!
ì (Mobile) Device, then Gonk ì Firefox rendering engine -‐> Gecko ì Otherwise known as ‘Boot to Gecko’
But what the? ì It’s an OperaIng System!
ì (Mobile) Device, then Gonk ì Firefox rendering engine -‐> Gecko ì Otherwise known as ‘Boot to Gecko’
Gaia ì Suite of web apps ì Run
naIvely on device ì Can boot on other devices (Raspberry Pi) ì All Open Source
Devices Geeksphone Foxconn tablet
Released! ì Mozilla, Telefonica, & ZTE ì
‘ZTE Open’ ì €69 ì Ebay ì This country?
ì Devices
No device? ì Simulator: Firefox Add On
How do I build apps?
How do I build apps?
How do I build apps? ì You probably already have
ì HTML, CSS, Javascript ì Other web technologies ì Simples!
Anything else? ì Manifest – root of app,
JSON format ì Responsive design ì Icons ì Offline
New technology ì HTML5 api’s ì GeolocaIon,
getUserMedia ì New webAPIs :D
WebAPIs (are awesome)
I’ve made an app – now what? ì Packaged
Apps -‐> Mozilla marketplace ì Hosted Apps -‐> Host it anywhere (even Github pages)
Resources ì heps://addons.mozilla.org/en-‐US/firefox/addon/firefox-‐os-‐ simulator/ ì hep://manifest-‐validator.com/ ì
heps://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/ or heps://developer.mozilla.org/en-‐US/docs/WebAPI ì heps://developer.mozilla.org/en-‐US/docs/Apps/Packaged_apps ì hep://www.12devsofxmas.co.uk/post/2012-‐12-‐27-‐day-‐2-‐lets-‐ make-‐a-‐firefoxos-‐app
Thank you ì Ruth John ì @rumyra