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* Skills/experience: Experience with the Web stack (HTML, JavaScript, CSS) is not required, but will accelerate your team. | * Skills/experience: Experience with the Web stack (HTML, JavaScript, CSS) is not required, but will accelerate your team. | ||
==Project | ==Project: Device-to-Device App Sharing=== | ||
Consuming mobile data is costly in many countries and applications, particularly games, can be large in size. Apps are often downloaded based on word of mouth recommendations, yet there is no way to directly transfer an app from one device to another. This is generally because content providers want users to come to their storefronts to trigger the download. What if a user could share an app directly with another user without consuming any data from their mobile plan? | Consuming mobile data is costly in many countries and applications, particularly games, can be large in size. Apps are often downloaded based on word of mouth recommendations, yet there is no way to directly transfer an app from one device to another. This is generally because content providers want users to come to their storefronts to trigger the download. What if a user could share an app directly with another user without consuming any data from their mobile plan? | ||
Device-to-Device App Sharing is about allowing users to do just that – embracing community and social sharing - no connection required. | Device-to-Device App Sharing is about allowing users to do just that – embracing community and social sharing - no connection required. | ||
==Results== | |||
* Participants | |||
** 13 students from 5 universities | |||
** Developed from Feb - May 2014 | |||
** 5 Mozilla mentors involved | |||
* Notes from all the meetings: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/fxos-openacademy | |||
* Repos: https://github.com/Firefox-OS-OpenAcademy | |||
* Status | |||
** Front-end looked mostly done | |||
** Back-end basics written, waiting for Import/Export API to land | |||
* Next steps | |||
** Bundle everything into one branch | |||
** Make UX review changes | |||
** Add unit/integration tests | |||
** Get code review | |||
** Land! | |||