Apps

(this page previously contained information about Firefox OS Apps)

Web App Developer Initiative

In 2015, Mozilla is launching a new initiative focused on the combination of several API's -- service workers, web push, and the W3C app app manifest. We believe the combination of these technologies is a platform with which we can offer developers some capabilities unmatched by native app ecosystems.

Reading List

• Paul Kinlin, "Living with Web Apps"
  • In this post, Paul gives an hour-by-hour journal of a day using only web content on his smartphone. Along the way he offers a list of "ten deadly sins of a mobile web app" along with other reflections on his experience.

• Alex Russell, "Progressive Apps: Escaping Tabs without Losing our Soul"
  • Alex lays out his best practices for modern web development based around responsive design and single-page apps, and moves on to how the addition of offlining and "save to home screen" capabilities enrich the mobile web.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZZdhTUP5qg

2015 Q3 Demoes

• https://firekey.org/
• https://brendandahl.github.io/pdfcollection/
• https://marco-c.github.io/watchy/#/series

2015 Q4 Deliverables

• https://www.npmjs.com/package/oghliner
• https://github.com/mozilla/oghliner