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Learning Firefox OS Application Development

Learning Firefox OS Application Development

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Learning Firefox OS Application Development

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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 (11 chapters)
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1. Introduction to Firefox OS
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1. Introduction to Firefox OS
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Introducing Firefox OS
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The need to develop applications for Firefox OS
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The architecture of Firefox OS
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The working of components under Firefox OS's hood – an example
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HTML5 and open web applications
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The security model of Firefox OS
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Devices running Firefox OS available in the market
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2. Running Firefox OS Simulators with WebIDE
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2. Running Firefox OS Simulators with WebIDE
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Introducing WebIDE
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Installing and creating new apps by using WebIDE
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Using developer tools in WebIDE
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Browsing other runtime applications
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Uninstalling applications in Firefox OS
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3. Getting Your Hands Dirty – Firefox OS Apps
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3. Getting Your Hands Dirty – Firefox OS Apps
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Introducing Firefox OS apps
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Security access levels (permissions)
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Building our application's manifest file
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Running our application on the simulator
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Running the application as a hosted application
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4. Diving Deeper with the Fox Creating Richer Apps
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4. Diving Deeper with the Fox Creating Richer Apps
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Making hosted applications installable
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Making hosted apps work offline with AppCache
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Building Check In!
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5. Making Applications Visually Appealing – Style Guide
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5. Making Applications Visually Appealing – Style Guide
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Basic design guidelines
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Avoiding UI blunders
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Gaia Building Blocks
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Checking responsiveness with responsive design view
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6. Emerging a Guru – Learning Web APIs
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6. Emerging a Guru – Learning Web APIs
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Introducing Web APIs
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Web activities
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Building FoxFoto
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7. Testing Your Firefox OS Application
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7. Testing Your Firefox OS Application
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Introducing quality assurance
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Using the Firefox developer tools for debugging
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Improving the app's performance
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Using the App Validator
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Spoof Firefox OS Add-on
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8. Firefox Marketplace – Setting up Your Bazaar
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8. Firefox Marketplace – Setting up Your Bazaar
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Firefox Marketplace
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Submitting your application to Firefox Marketplace
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Updating your application in Marketplace
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Marketplace review criteria
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Publishing paid applications in Marketplace
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Porting existing web apps to Firefox OS
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9. Maintaining Your Firefox OS Application Code Professionally
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9. Maintaining Your Firefox OS Application Code Professionally
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Setting up an account at GitHub
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Version controlling your application
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Hosting apps on RHCloud via Git
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Preface

Mozilla publicly demonstrated the open source Firefox OS in February 2012. Firefox OS is an initiative by the open source company Mozilla to develop a mobile platform for smartphones as well as a host of other devices, such as tablets and televisions. The reason for rolling out this platform was to provide its users with an operating system that has an alternative that respects the user's privacy and puts security first. Firefox OS devices are a great choice for users who are transitioning from feature phones to smartphones or those who are concerned about privacy. Mozilla is best known for developing pieces of open source software, such as the Firefox web browser, and it doesn't answer its users rather than answering to stakeholders. The aim of Firefox OS is to run on devices that have limited hardware capabilities while still providing a unique and smooth user experience.

Mozilla has a huge community of developers and users, and they are always willing to help others on platforms such as GitHub and IRC (irc.mozilla.org). Firefox OS also has a great marketplace. It has grown over the years and offers great applications. In Firefox OS, HTML5 applications are first-class applications, and so any ordinary web application can be turned into a Firefox OS application in just a few steps. Even the user interface of Firefox OS, which is known as Gecko, has been built with the help of three components, namely HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3. This makes developing applications easy for people who have already done web development.

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