FIREFOX OS

The Web is the Platform

Germán Toro del Valle

german.torodelvalle@telefonica.com, gtorodelvalle@gmail.com

@gtorodelvalle

Slides: http://bit.ly/fxos-web-platform

                         http://bit.ly/fxos-web-platform-live

THE UNTOLD STORY ABOUT FIREFOX OS

• Firefox OS is the unification of 2 independent initiatives by Mozilla and Telefónica:
  1. Wholesale Application Community:
     • MWC 2011 announcement (14/02/2011)
     • Open Web Device
  2. Boot 2 Gecko:
     • B2G project announcement by Andreas Gal (25/07/2011)

getting to know each other

1. How many people in the room has ever developed a Web page?
2. How many people in the room has ever developed a Firefox OS app?

Firefox os

Tizen

state of the mobile web today

This is unstoppable...

... but let's do it right

Open web apis

A SIMPLE SMS app 

{
  "name": "My SMS app",
  "description": "App to send SMS messages.",
  "icons": {
    "128": "/icons/SMS-icon.png"
  },
  "type": "certified",
  "permissions": {
    "sms": {}
  }
}

<input id="number" type="text" placeholder="666666666"> <br/>
<textarea id="text" placeholder="Type your text..."></textarea> <br/>
<button id="send"> Send </button>

document.getElementById('send').addEventListener('click', function() {
  navigator.mozMobileMessage.send(
    document.getElementById('number').value,
    document.getElementById('text').value);
});

OPEN WEB APPS

open app marketplace

OPEN (DEBUGGING) TOOLS

OPEN (DEVELOPMENT) TOOLS

the story of a big success

what about the future?

Firefox OS everywhere

(devices and countries world-wide)

DEMO TIME !!!

THANKS ;)