OHM 2013: A holistic view of Firefox OS
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Date: 2014-06-12

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Speaker: Stefan Arentz

Firefox OS is a new mobile operating system developed by Mozilla. It is built on web technology and is following the same principals which have made the web a success: open, hackable, universal. This talk will explain how Firefox OS functions both at low and high level, how you can hack on it and how you can write applications for it.

Firefox OS is built entirely on web technologies using Open Source Software. Everything the user sees and interacts with is rendered using standard HTML and CSS. All application code is written in JavaScript, as is the implementation of many of the new APIs which are exposed to applications and web pages.

This talk will focus on three areas to get people excited about this new Mozilla initiative: how does it work, how hackable is it and how can you write apps for it.

There will first be a high-level overview of the architecture of the Firefox OS platform, introducing key concepts and explaining how it's components interact at a basic level.

Then you will learn how you can hack on Firefox OS, either on real devices or in an emulator. You will also see how you can grab the source code, make modifications and push a customized version of Firefox OS to your phone.

The last part of the talk will focus on writing applications for end-users. You will get a good idea about technologies used and what you need to do to get started.