MozCampAsia2012/apps dissected
Apps Dissected - APIs as Awesome Sauce!
Facilitator(s): Harald Kirschner
Are you paid or volunteer staff?: Paid
Area of Contribution (Team Name): Apps/Labs
How are you currently involved with the community?: Technical partner support for apps business development
Location of Work (where do you reside?): Mountain View
Talk Length (please choose between 30, 60, 90, 120 minutes): 30
Summary: The amount of APIs Mozilla's platforms provide for HTML5 apps is breath-taking and can best be explained by showing each of them in their own habitat. A demo (preferably live, falling back to recorded, depending on API) to show the usefulness, integration and mash-up capabilities. Each demo steps through API example code afterwards, which includes a jsfiddle/github example that people can fork to hack on their own. The talk can end with a little game storming on which kind of APIs would people use to make their apps work, to internalize all the new possibilities that just got presented (would result in the 60min version or an additional workshop). This includes showcasing the various app formats (packaged and hosted) and how it affects APIs.
How your session furthers the MozCamp Goals: Educate and excite about apps with rich device integration. Engage in app creation and getting them on the marketplace.
Expected Outcome or Deliverable: See Goals. Having an awareness about APIs and that apps are not just bookmarks but rich and integrated experiences.
Desired Audience Type or Skill-set: Product managers, designers and hackers.
Equipment Needs (Video projector already included): Phone. Projector connected to my MBP. I could connect my Android to present apps running in the Android Marketplace.