Wednesday, April 29, 2015

FirefoxOS Design

I was reading the FirefoxOS in action tutorial today and I added some code to the note app provided by the book but it had an error(although it was a simple error that I fixed) so I just stopped reading it.

I started reading articles on the app center on the mozilla developer website
  • When making an app there are some pretty obvious things everyone should do but is important anyway but these steps can be modified depending on your preference
    • When thinking of an idea for an app and you have decided you should state the purpose of the app and who would use it. Also consider if it will be on different platforms
    • Draw what the app will look like, probably a sketch for each screen and more if the app will be on multiple platforms
    • Also if your app is on different platforms it may have different features on each platform, a mobile app will sometimes have less features than a desktop site because of the lack of space(google docs is a word processor with a lot of functions but the mobile app only allows you to view your documents and not edit them which is annoying in my opinion)

This tutorial looks really good so far and I looked at the example geolocation app on my laptop but I haven't seen what it looks like on the Flame.

1 comment:

  1. This is indeed very useful information about the design process. Unfortunately, after this I found it jumped head first into some pretty advanced applications (I think it is written for experienced programmers who it assumes need more guidance with design than with development). We need simpler apps to get ourselves up to speed with this.

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