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Learning Firefox OS Application Development

By : Tanay Pant
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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

Marketplace review criteria


Let's now discuss the various criteria based on which the reviewers decide whether an application should be published in the Marketplace or not. One important thing to keep in mind is that Marketplace reviewers do not review an application on the basis of how it looks, but rather on the basis of the working of an application. The review process is quite fair and transparent, since Firefox Marketplace has reviewers from Mozilla's huge volunteer base as well, in addition to full-time employees.

Some of the main points that are considered while reviewing the application are: usability (navigation and functionality), security (take care of CSP guidelines), content (non-offensive and IARC rated), functionality, and the privacy policy of the application.

If your application adheres to these simple guidelines, and you follow all the instructions present in the previous chapters carefully, then you should not face any problem in your application being accepted in Marketplace...