Apps/Ecosystem

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This is a project overview for the Apps Engineering team.

Current Projects

  • Web Components and Templates (Arron, Potch)
    • X-tags -- web component polyfill and component framework
    • Brick -- UI components for apps
    • mortar -- templates for building apps
  • Platform intergration (Piotr, James)
    • PhoneGap / Apache Cordova integration -- cross-platform apps development framework
    • Kitchen Sink app -- test tool for cross-platform API support
    • Speakeasy -- given a "native" app package, determine if it is a wrapped HTML5 app or a "native" app.
  • Showcase Apps (Sole, Jen, tofumatt, et al)
    • RTCamera -- a WebRTC / WebGL camera app that generates animated gifs
    • around -- a cross-platform Foursquare client
    • Podcasts -- a podcast client for Firefox OS
    • Webfighter -- a canvas-based game (and in-app payments demo)
    • chatspaces -- a mobile chat app with WebRTC, push notifications, and accounts integration
  • Cross-functional projects
    • Offline Task Force -- an initiative to improve the state of offline capability in apps
    • localForage -- a convenience library for async data storage across platforms, with localStorage fallback
    • Search Experiments (Jen, w/Labs)
    • Nunjucks (jlongster) -- JS template engine

Goals

Previous Quarters/Projects

Tentative projects/ideas

Reach out to the Apps Engineering team in person or on IRC to discuss!