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Learning Firefox OS Application Development

By : Tanay Pant
Book Image

Learning Firefox OS Application Development

By: Tanay Pant

Overview of this book

With broad compatibility, the latest in web technologies, and powerful development tools, Firefox is a great choice for both web developers and end users. Firefox OS’s promotion of HTML5 as a first class citizen opens up the walled gardens of mobile application development for web developers. It is because of this initiative that no special SDKs are required to develop for Firefox OS. This book will help you excel in the art of developing applications for Firefox OS. It sequentially covers knowledge building, skills acquisition, and practical applications. Starting with an introduction to Firefox OS, usage of WebIDE, and then the application structure, this book introduces applications of increasing complexity with each chapter. An application that measures your tapping speed, a geolocation tagging application, and a photo editing and sharing application are the three applications that will be built from scratch. You will learn about topics such as the difference between various types of Firefox OS applications, application manifest files, offline apps, and designing principles for applications. You will also learn to test and submit the applications to the marketplace and finally maintain the repository of the Firefox OS application. By the end, you will be able to develop beautifully designed, fully-fledged, and rigorously tested Firefox OS applications and also share them at the Firefox OS Marketplace.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning Firefox OS Application Development
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Checking responsiveness with responsive design view


As mentioned earlier, it is really important to thoroughly test if your application is design responsive. Earlier, developers had to take care of this task by resizing their browser windows, but thankfully, Firefox offers Responsive Design View in its arsenal of developer tools. You can go over to responsive design view by navigating to Tools | Web Developer | Responsive Design View. This allows you to check your applications by testing them in some preset sizes of mobile devices. You can also set a custom size by dragging the corners of the mobile responsive view to test the elements. It allows other options, such as displaying the page in landscape mode at the device size that you have set and simulating touch events. You can also take a screenshot of the application in the size that has been set by you by clicking on the camera icon.

The following is an illustration of our application Clickr in Responsive Design Mode set at size 320*480...