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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

Chapter 5. Making Applications Visually Appealing – Style Guide

In this chapter, you will learn some basic designing guidelines that will help you to make your application more user friendly. You will learn how to avoid some common UI blunders, and study Gaia Building Blocks. You will then implement Gaia Building Blocks to Clickr and check whether your application adapts to different screen sizes and resolutions with the help of responsive design view. We will go through the following topics in brief:

  • Basic design guidelines

  • Avoiding UI blunders

  • Gaia building blocks

  • Implementing Gaia Building Blocks to Clickr

  • Checking design responsiveness with responsive design view

In this chapter, we will deal with topics such as how to make your Firefox OS applications visually appealing so that they share the look and feel of the Firefox OS default suite of applications, that is, the applications that are a part of Gaia. We will also discuss which practices should be followed while developing applications...