Processing for FirefoxOS
Monday, September 24th, 2012
Screen capture of Firefox OS (Desktop build on Ubuntu) with installed Web app written in Processing
With Firefox OS getting closer to it’s release we will finally get our free mobile operating system (RIP Maemo). Based on a Linux kernel it boots into the runtime engine behind Firefox running webapps written in HTML, Javascript and other open web APIs. In short, it’s a mobile OS powered by Javascript. Magical!
Since processing.js ships with version 2 of Processing, our favorite creative coding tool now is one of the most powerful languages for creating HTML5 animations, interactive apps and games.
Here I will show the necessary steps for running apps written in Processing on Firefox OS. (more…)
