DEMOSONFACK S. Serge Mozillian-CameroonWeb developer and Linux System administratorsss_sonfack@yahoo.com

Introduction

Mozilla is a free software community that produces, develops and promotes Mozilla products.

Lead by the Mozilla Fundation the community works in other to bring for everyone free and open web solutions. Some of the products supported by the community are : - Mozilla firefox web browser- Thunderbird mail utility- Mozilla firefox OS

Firefox OS

Firefox OS is a mobile Open SourceOperating System base on Linux andOpen Web Technogies that gives to usersan Operating System for Smartphone with great performance, personalization,intiutive and easy to use experience.

The easy to use experience of the Firefox OS makes it interface veryfamiliar to users, and therefor easy fora first time user to get used to and adaptto the OS

Firefox OSCore features What is already in ?

Firefox OS comes with some core feature like those available on mostsmartphone : ✔ Contact ✔ SMS✔ FM Radio ✔ Video player✔ Music player✔ Camera ✔ Galley and Image editing

More to that we have :

Firefox OSSocial media integration

This feature will help the user to retrieve social media Informations on his phone: for example importing Facebook contact in you phonebook, have thier Emails and photos. So you can easily Send them SMS or emails or even writeOn thier facebook wall.

Firefox OS Email

The OS has en email wizart that help you to manage you email from providers like :Yahoo mailWindows live mailGmail

More advance configuration permite you to include Support for Exchange, SMTP and IMAP

Firefox OS

Firefox web browser

The Firefox OS comes with the Firefox web browser. This browser has features like : Autocompletion ;Easy to add favorite site to bookmark Easy to add site icon to home screen

Firefox OS

Where to find app( sofware ) ?

Firefox Maketplace is where you can go and download app for you Firefox OS phone. When in the Markeplace you will find many app grouped in categories including new app and popular app.Note that the app are easy to install ( just by clicking on the install button after selecting an app.

Firefox OS

For the cost, Firefox OS is notcompeting with other mobile Operating Systems, but is there to provide to users low cost handset with Smartphone functionalities,good performance and user experience.

Developers

As everything is implemented in HTML/CSS, the OS breaks the barriers between web and mobile apps to providea great new experience, the one of an application that can be run on both Desktop, tablet and other devices.

Why should we go to Firefox OS ?

It is easy to develop on Firefox OS because apps are base on web technologies that we know already that is :HTML5 , CSS3 and JAVASCRIPT.

Developers

Where to sale you products ?

After development you can publish your app at the Mozilla Marketplace and you are sure that all Firefox OS user will be there to download it on thier smartphone

Hello worldFor this Hello world our environment is consisted of : ✔ A web server on Linux ( LAMP)

be for Windows user you can user Wamp or Easyphp

✔ A Firefox web browser✔ A Firefox OS simulator which is

install as a modul of the Firefox web browser

✔ An editor ( Geany, notepad, ..)

Where to go

● App security

www.wiki.mozilla.org/Apps/security

● Get involved

irc.mozilla.org

● Become mozillian

mozillians.org

● General information

mozilla.org