Building Apps for Firefox OS

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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.

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Here to Help

BenMozilla

FranciscoTelefonica

ThomasBlueVia

FernandoTelefonica

ZacMozilla

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"A complete, standalone operating system for the open web."

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The Web is the PlatformIn Firefox OS, everything is a web app. Just HTML5, CSS and JavaScript.

wiki.mozilla.org/Gaia

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Web APIsWeb APIs extend the capabilities of the web to include, and in places exceed, the capabilities of competing stacks.

wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI

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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

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Firefox Development Tools

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Firefox OS Simulator

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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