Ivan Dejanovic
Husband to a wonderful woman. Father to a beautiful son and daughter. Software developer by trade. Founder of Quine Interactive.
Instalable web applications
Firefox OS primer
Ivan Dejanovic
twitter: https://twitter.com/ivan_dejanovic
github: https://github.com/ivandejanovic/
What this talk is not about
- This talk is not about Firefox OS. I will give some info but will not go into details.
- This talk is not here to convince you that Firefox OS and installable web applications are one size fit all solution for you problems.
What this talk is about
- Giving you introduction to installable web applications.
- Showing you on practical examples how you might develop them yourself.
- Hopefully giving you information which will help you decide when they are useful in your projects.
Portability is the key
Web to the rescue
Native applications issues
- Users can not use same application on different platforms.
- Developers don't want to make different application for different platform.
- Downloading and installing applications is not simple.
- Updates are not always automatic. Users need to download or accept update.
Web applications issues
- Application discovery. Urls are still hard for regular people to wrap their head around.
- Remembering, bookmarking urls is hard.
- Offline availability.
- Users use web applications like they are native. They don't understand the distinction.
Instalable web applications
http://www.w3.org/TR/appmanifest/
https://w3c-webmob.github.io/installable-webapps/
Chrome Extensions
https://developer.chrome.com/extensions
Firefox OS info
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/Platform/Architecture
Firefox OS applications
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps/Build/Building_apps_for_Firefox_OS
Hosted applications
- You can distribute them right from your website. No need for marketplace.
- Can push updates at will.
- Need to have offline built-in.
- Can't access all of the apis.
Packaged applications
- Need to distribute them through marketplace.
- Updates need to be reviewed.
- Offline functionality is built-in. Sort of.
- Can access all of the apis.
Demos
Packaged application
Hosted application
Deploying to marketplace
Try it for yourself
https://github.com/ivandejanovic/
https://github.com/robnyman/Firefox-OS-Boilerplate-App
https://github.com/webapplate/webapplate
Installable web applications Firefox OS primer
By Ivan Dejanovic
