Slides from Software Freedom Day 2015

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%title: Intro to FxOS Tooling %author: dcallahan@mozilla.com %date: 2014-09-20

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Firefox OS?

• Free / Open Source Software mobile OS

• Built on open web technology

• Know how to build a website? You can build an app.

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Architecture

Three layers:

1. Gaia (Interface)
2. Gecko (Rendering Engine)
3. Gonk (Base OS / Platform)

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Gonk (Base OS / Platform)

• Linux Kernel (from AOSP)
• Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL)
• Minimal userland

fastboot [flash | erase | boot | reboot]

adb [ push | pull | logcat | shell ]

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Gecko (Rendering Engine)

• Common codebase for Mozilla software: Firefox, Thunderbird, etc.

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Gaia (User Interface)

• Everything you can see / touch

• 100% HTML / JS / CSS

• Build apps with tools you already know: Bootstrap, jQuery, Angular...

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Want to learn more?

https://developer.mozilla.org/Firefox_OS

https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/b2g

https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia