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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

Devices running Firefox OS available in the market


A large number of devices that run Firefox OS are now available for purchase from many operators and carriers in over 30 countries. Alcatel One Touch Fire, LG Fireweb, ZTE Open, Huawei Y300II, Alcatel One Touch Fire C, ZTE Open C, ZTE Open II, Alcatel One Touch Fire E, Intex Cloud FX, Spice Fire MI FX1, Symphony Gofox F15, Alcatel One Touch Fire C 2G, Zen 105 Fire, Cherry Mobile Ace, Fx0, Orange Klif, and Spice Fire One MI FX2 are examples of such devices. The following image shows the newly launched Fx0 smartphone:

In 2015, Panasonic launched Panasonic CX700, which is a television that runs on Firefox OS. Isn't that amazing? Now, the applications that you develop can also run on televisions.

Note

For complete details of the specifications and availability of the various devices that run Firefox OS, you can visit the Mozilla Firefox OS devices website at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/os/devices/.