Intro to Firefox OSWith Mahir Labib Chowdhury

Wondering?Why another OS for

Mobile Platform?

Suppose

You want to build an App For Mobile Platform.

What Mobile?

Android? Needs Java

iOS?Runs Objective-C

Windows? Requires

C#

Now what?Looks like You have to go a long

way to build an App for all Mobile

Platform!So what are you going

to do? Learn Them All

OR find a better

Alternative?

Think About what

connects the All major

Platforms?

Yes! The “Web” Connects them ALL!

How?

Firefox OS

Comes to the Rescue!

Bringing Open Web Standard to the

Mobile Platform!

Interested?

Let’s take a look in Firefox OS,

Inside Out!

AboutFirefox OS is :

1. A web tech based OS

2. Runs on Phone, Tab, TV

3. An OS with A Philosophy to

preserve Your Freedom

Parts

Gonk Gecko Gaia

Firefox OS contains Three parts

GonkSay Hello,

… underlying magic

Gonk(The Actual OS)

Linux Kernel

Based on AOSP

Enables HAL

Exposes Hardware to Gecko

It talks with the Hardware.

GeckoKnow

… engine that runs the

web

Gecko(The rendering Engine)

Renders HTML, CSS

Executes JavaScript

Displays Webpage into Gaia

Same engine that powers Firefox

The Browser that displays Web!

GaiaMeet

… look and fell

Gaia(User Interface)

Lock Screen

Home Screen

Dialer

Keyboard

Everything we see in Firefox OS!

This Together Makes

this …this …and this

Vision… the philosophy, inside

Open Web > Mobile OS

By taking the advantage of

Mozilla’s Powerful

“Rendering Engine”, Gecko,

Firefox OS runs Open Web

technologies like HTML,

CSS and JavaScript as well

as web friendly APIs.

Low Cost Smartphones

1. Low CPU

2. Low RAM3. Low Power

Freedom

1. Do Not Track Me

2. Full Open Source

3. Secured by Firefox Account

4. Full Verified Apps From Marketplace

5. No trouble in Changing Platform

Future

Future, Firefox OS Helping to Build

1. Technologies built on Web Standard

2. Hardware exploitation possible through Web

APIs

3. Paving the way of a Hybrid App Development

4. Helping to create an Unified App platform

Acknowledgement

Rabby Hossain

Ashickur Rahman Noor

Ratul Minhaz