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| post | My Experience Developing an Application for Firefox OS | 2015-09-08 02:06:00 | firefox-os-development-experience | experience, firefox-os | false |
So, I made my first actual product, Hawk. It all started by installing Firefox OS on my Nexus 4 just to try it out.
I searched Marketplace for essential apps I would install on Android, well, a File Manager is necessary, I found this which is good but it lacks a lot.
I was wondering if I could write a File Manager–creating was not my only intention. I thought I would use React Redux stack and learn it on the way.
So I did, I wrote a File Manager which I personally think looks good and has good functionality (I have a lot of ideas to be applied). I learned React Redux, too, in my opinion it's a good pattern but I think some parts of it can be improved further.
Anyways, I'm here to talk about my experience writing a Firefox OS Application.
TL;DR: You feel right at home, debugging tools are great (WebIDE), but a little buggy sometimes. You can use latest web features without worrying about cross-platform and these shits. The overall OS performance is lower than expected.
#Home, Sweet Home Writing mobile applications using Web technologies without having to worry about porting things, banging your head against old webkit's weird behaviors and compatibility issues with old devices (looking at you, PhoneGap) feels great.
One thing I really like about Firefox and Firefox OS is most new and spicy JavaScript features are supported and you don't have to prefix anything. Although I think performance of CSS animations/transitions can be improved on Firefox (they're faster on Chrome I think), you won't have much problem writing applications for Firefox OS, I used a lot of transitions and animations in my application.
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