I wrote a quick Hello World app, which was really easy to set up and push to my local emulator. The hardest part was getting access to the jQuery library I was trying to use. I assumed the phone would have it built in so that not every app had to have its own copy, but apparently that's not the case. Once I figured out that I needed to download a copy of jQuery to get access to it, everything went smoothly. I wrote a quick app that displays some text.
It's really nice that since the emulator is using the browser to render, I can use the Firefox element inspector to alter how my app displays while it is running, which can be really useful for previewing changes
I can also paste my code right into blogger, and with a little bit of tweaking, have my app running embedded in the page! That's really cool!
This is what it ended up looking like:
World
Awesome! We're ready for tomorrow. I spent the whole day today messing around with my Nexus 4 (I hate hardware!) until I finally got it to dual-boot Android and Firefox OS 2.0. That means I can turn the other developer's phone over to the development team, and we'll need only one more for each of you to have one.
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