Apps/Ecosystem

This is a project overview for the Apps Engineering team.

Current Projects

• Web Components and Templates (Potch, Sole)
  • Brick -- UI components for apps
  • mortar -- templates for building apps

• Cross-Platform tools (Piotr, Rodrigo, jweathersby)
  • PhoneGap / Apache Cordova integration -- cross-platform apps development framework

• Showcase Apps (Sole, Jen, tofumatt, et al)
  • around -- a cross-platform Foursquare client
  • Podcasts -- a podcast client for Firefox OS

• Libraries
  • localForage -- a convenience library for async data storage across platforms, with localStorage fallback
  • Webapp manifest validator -- a reusable module to test a webapp manifest for validity
    • Upcoming: static code validator for common apps rules such as CSP

• Cross-functional projects (rory, tofumatt)
  • Developer Recommendations -- Strong recommendations for web developers to make better apps
    • recroom -- a tool/library bundle and yeoman generator tying the above recommendations into a convenient package, so you don't have to.
    • Offline Initiative -- an initiative to improve the state of offline capability in apps
  • toolchain integration with WebIDE (WebIDE CLI, etc.)

Quarterly Goals

(Overarching Marketplace/Apps group goals are maintained by Rick Fant et al. The following goals align with those global initiatives, but are much more detailed and specific to the Apps Engineering group.)

• 2015: Quarter 1
• 2014: Quarter 1 | Quarter 2 | Quarter 3 | Quarter 4
• 2013: Quarter 1 | Quarter 2 | Quarter 3 | Quarter 4

Previous Quarters/Projects

• Check out the Wiki history

Tentative projects/ideas

Reach out to the Apps Engineering team in person or on IRC to discuss!