Slides from the Getting Started with Firefox OS event in the Mozilla space in London on 7th December 2012 http://www.meetup.com/FirefoxOS/events/90510272/
The event was intended to get people building their first Hello World app for Firefox OS.
4. The Web is the Platform
In Firefox OS, everything is a web app. Just HTML5, CSS
and JavaScript.
wiki.mozilla.org/Gaia
5. Web APIs
Web APIs extend the capabilities of the web to include, and
in places exceed, the capabilities of competing stacks.
wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI
6. Open Web Apps
Apps built with standard web technologies in an open
ecosystem with multiple app stores.
manifest.webapp
1. {
2. "name": "My App",
3. "description": "My elevator pitch goes here",
4. "launch_path": "/",
5. "icons": {
6. "128": "/img/icon-128.png"
7. },
8. "developer": {
9. "name": "Your name or organization",
10. "url": "http://your-homepage-here.org"
11. },
12. "default_locale": "en"
13. }
marketplace.firefox.com/developers/
9. You will need...
1. A text editor
2. A web server
3. A web browser
(Firefox Nightly with the Firefox OS Simulator extension)
Let's get hacking!
etherpad.mozilla.org/firefoxos-apps