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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

Setting up an account at GitHub


So, let's get started with the task of setting up an account at GitHub. GitHub is a web-based repository hosting web service that allows users to version control their source code online. GitHub offers both private as well as public repositories. With the help of GitHub, other users can also discover your open source projects and contribute code to them. Isn't this the perfect place for your Firefox OS application's code to reside?

Go to https://github.com/ and click on Sign Up. You will be asked for details, such as your name, e-mail ID, and a password. Then you will be asked for your account plan. Select the free one and you are good to go. Signing up at GitHub is as easy as setting up a developer account at Firefox Marketplace.

On the top-right corner of your screen, you have an option from where you can see your profile and your repositories as well as the repositories that you have contributed to. That's it, congratulations, you just set up your developer...