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.

• Alex Komoroske and Elisabeth Morant, "The Next Generation Mobile Web"
  • In this 40 minute Google I/O talk, Alex and Elisabeth show examples using these new API's, especially concentrating on how web push creates exciting new opportunities for user reengagement.

2015 Q3 Demoes

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

2015 Q4 Deliverables

• Oghliner v1 - https://github.com/mozilla/oghliner - initial version of a template/tool for offlining web apps and deploying them to GitHub Pages
• Platatus MVP - https://github.com/mozilla/platatus - minimal viable prototype of reference app that describes standardization/implementation status of web platform features