Apps/Ecosystem

This is a project overview for the Apps Engineering team.

Select Projects

• Firefox {,OS} <-> Web development frameworks
  • EmberCLI plugin for Firefox OS (project codename "recroom")
  • node-firefox

• Cross-Platform tools
  • PhoneGap / Apache Cordova integration -- cross-platform apps development framework

• Showcase Apps
  • around -- a cross-platform Foursquare client
  • high fidelity -- a podcast client for Firefox OS

• Libraries
  • localForage -- a convenience library for async data storage across platforms, with localStorage fallback
  • Webapp manifest validator -- a reusable module to test a webapp manifest for validity

Quarterly Goals

(Overarching Marketplace/Apps group goals are maintained by Rick Fant et al. The following goals align with those global initiatives, but are much more detailed and specific to the Apps Engineering group.)

• 2015: Quarter 1 | Quarter 2
• 2014: Quarter 1 | Quarter 2 | Quarter 3 | Quarter 4
• 2013: Quarter 1 | Quarter 2 | Quarter 3 | Quarter 4

Previous Quarters/Projects

• Check out the Wiki history

Tentative projects/ideas

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