Develop cool OS apps!

Telenor Digital is currently launching a “How to” video guide for creating Firefox OS apps. The series teaches just about anyone how to build your first application for Firefox OS and how to get it listed in the Firefox Marketplace.

“Last year, we announced that we would be distributing Firefox OS in Serbia, Montenegro and Hungary, together with . We are working actively in ensuring that the Firefox OS developer community in our markets grows, so that we can offer our customers an excellent variety of apps and content through Firefox Marketplace,” says Ketil Høigaard, responsible for Firefox OS content and development at Telenor Digital. Firefox smartphones is an important enabler in bringing Internet to all. Ensuring that customers are provided with engaging content, also local, will be an important success factor in further roll out. An important step in this is the recently launched video series on how to develop Firefox OS apps, that basically shows anyone how to develop engaging content for Firefox smartphones.

The Firefox OS Evangelists presents

“Rolling out low-cost Firefox smartphones in our CEE markets was an important milestone, we now have to make sure that our customers are offered new and innovative services, and great local content,” says Høigaard. In this collection of short videos, Firefox OS evangelists from Mozilla and Telenor Digital met in Oslo, to explain in a few steps how you can get started to build applications for Firefox OS. Ketil Høigaard together with Firefox OS enthusiast, CEO of Jongla at 2014 “If you are a web developer and you want to build a , these screencast series Firefox OS gives you the tools to do so, without having to learn a totally new development environment,” adds Høigaard, and continues, “This is basically web development made easy, making apps in HTML 5 does not require a professional developer or great technical expertise”. If that’s not enough, the tutorials are short and easy to follow. Each of the screencasts can be watched in a short break, and the whole series should not take more than an hour to go through.

More to come!

Firefox OS is an that brings the Web to mobile devices. Instead of being a new OS with new technologies and development environments, it builds on standardized web technologies that have been in use for years now. More and more operators and handsets are embracing this new open operating system, also stimulating the creation of new content and apps. “These films will be made available in other languages as well. We will be releasing Firefox smartphones in Bangladesh in the course of 2014, which is really exciting. This also means that the videos will be available in Bangla soon, and we will be distributing it to the Bangla and Asian developer communities, in order to stimulate the making of great Firefox OS apps for this developing market,” Høigaard finishes off. Can’t wait to get started? Find the “how to” series on Mozilla’s developer blog “Building your first Firefox OS app and getting it published”- check out the introduction video here. The series features Jan Jongboom and Sergi Mansilla of Telenor Digital, and Chris Heilmann of Mozilla. You can also follow Telenor Digital on Facebook and Twitter @TelenorDigital. One new film will be released every day!

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