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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

Firefox Marketplace


Firefox Marketplace (http://marketplace.firefox.com) is an online marketplace that offers you free and paid applications for Firefox on Android, Desktop, and Firefox OS. Let's take a look at a screenshot of the Firefox Marketplace:

Just like any other other applications store, such as Apple App Store or Google Play Store, Firefox Marketplace offers you a wide range of applications from games to productivity applications. Firefox Marketplace has been set up in a manner that allows developers to submit their applications in a very easy way. Although it is the main channel for the distribution of Firefox OS applications, you are not compulsorily required to use it. The review criteria of Marketplace are also very well documented and you will study the review guidelines for application submission as well, later in this chapter.

First of all, we will submit our application Clickr to Marketplace as a packaged application and demonstrate the steps taken while submitting the application...