FxOSstub

A minimalist fxos application template

fxosstub is the most simplistic, minimalist pattern to get the most newbies started building an application for Firefox OS on mobile, and it must stay as such: no rings, no bells. The Ariadne's string through the Labyrinth, just enough to wake up the enthusiasm of legions of developers.

fxosstub does absolutely nothing, except to show a screen suitable for obtaining the familiar layout of a mobile application aujus Firefox: a top header --with an install button, a body section, a bottom toolbar --with normalized icons. In the body section, there is a text area --launching the virtual keyboardy --and a progress bar. All of this is supposed to self-adapt to an adequate size, keeping the text readable, the buttons finger-reachable.

fxosstub fills the gap between (i) what you are used to for building a regular web-page on a laptop/desktop display, and (ii) what is required on mobile with touch screens of reduced size.