Apps/Ecosystem

Wait what, Ecosystem?

Imagine you're a web developer and you want to learn about this Web Apps thing. We should explain to you what this is, what you can do with it and how to build a web app, providing you with guidance and resources along the way.

Goals

• Make the app developer experience amazing
• Give app developers a very clear path to where they want to go

Audiences

• Mobile app developers
• Game developers
• Web developers
• Partners/App workshops
• Startups

Outline

• Design
• Revision/Source control
• App workshops/IDEs
• Advertising
• Statistics
• Purchases
• Hosting
• Cloud storage

Notes

• Comparative analysis, design prep - jgrlicky
  • Comparative Analysis
  • Raw Screenshots
  • jgrlicky: the movie

Relevant Sites

Internal:

• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/apps/
• https://marketplace.mozilla.org/en-US/login?to=/en-US/developers/
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Apps
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps

External:

• https://simple.com/
• https://stripe.com/ and https://stripe.com/docs
• https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#referencelibrary/GettingStarted/RoadMapiOS/

Version 1: Landing Page

Informational landing page(s) outlining the dev process for web apps.

Suggested outline:

What's a Web App? - content

• Examples
• Compare to other platforms
  • iOS, Android
  • Website
  • Add-on
• Technologies used

Code it! - content

• The parts of an open web app
• Bootstrap
• HTML5 / CSS3 / JS docs
• Localization

Test it! -- content

• Mobile
• Desktop
• Offline / online
• QA best practices document

Publish it! (see "test it" content)

• Deployment
  • (own server, Heroku, Google Appspot)
• Marketplace / AMO
• Monetization

Next Steps (see "test it" content)

• Updates
• User Engagement

Version 2: Mozilla Builder

The Mozilla Builder is a ecosystem-unifying developer tool that supports app creation from "idea to paid". The Builder will aid in idea formulation, provide a bootstrap for new projects, integrate documentation based on context, provide an authoring environment, help in app testing, and enable publishing to the Mozilla Marketplace, as well as a host of other value added services that support the entirety of the app life-cycle.