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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

Publishing paid applications in Marketplace


The submission procedure for paid applications differs slightly as compared to the submission procedure for free applications.

Note

Note that we are referring to paid applications on the Marketplace and not in-app payments (however, the submission procedure for both paid apps and in-app payment apps is the same).

For the purpose of in-app payments, you can use any third-party service but you will need to take care of the implementation yourself. Firefox Marketplace currently supports only Bango as their payment provider. The following illustration for submitting a paid application:

Now, while submitting paid apps to the marketplace, you will need to select the Paid / In-app tab instead of the Free tab. The rest of the procedure is pretty much the same. You just need to fill out the Compatibility and Payments section as well for Bango.

Remember, you will need to set up a payment account with Bango first. Firefox Marketplace also offers an option to promote...