The most interesting part of matchstick is that the flint protocol which let you run apps without having to directly install them on device. All that relies on device discovery that is currently provided by additional daemons on device. Hopefully they'll move to the presentation api which will help everyone build apps that work on their platform.
Fabrice On 01/06/2015 08:26 AM, J. Ryan Stinnett wrote: > Looking at the Matchstick developer guide[1], it seems there are > expecting a very specialized type of app, so we should probably think > about it separately from Panasonic / TV vendors, since I would expect > them to be different environments, even if they both appear on a TV > screen in the end. > > Jan and Alex from DevTools are actively working to make the Simulator > more customizable as far as screen size, Gaia profiles, etc. but this > work will take some time. This would help simulator match what's used on > the Panasonic devices, etc. Some of this can be done today, but it's a > lot of manual building, CLI flags, and such. > > Looking at the Matchstick build instructions[2], a Gaia profile could > likely be produced that the Simulator could run, but again that's a bit > of manual work for now. > > [1]: > https://github.com/openflint/openflint.github.io/wiki/Developer%20Guide%20for%20Flint > [2]: > https://github.com/openflint/openflint.github.io/wiki/Build%20Your%20Matchstick > > - Ryan > > On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Eric Shepherd <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Yeah, with the announcement from Panasonic, there’s going to be > interest on the part of app developers in working on apps designed > to be used on a TV, so having support for simulating that > environment is going to be something we will get asked about more > and more. > > Eric Shepherd > Developer Documentation Lead > Mozilla > http://www.bitstampede.com/ > > >> On Jan 6, 2015, at 9:38 AM, Sandip Kamat <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> +Joe might be able to answer... Adding him. >> >> On Jan 6, 2015 7:02 PM, "Chris Mills" <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I’ve had a few developers interested in TV development ask me >> about Matchstick recently, and whether there’s an emulator >> available for testing or anything like that? The real dev >> devices seem a bit thin on the ground now. >> >> Chris Mills >> Senior tech writer || Mozilla >> developer.mozilla.org <http://developer.mozilla.org/> || MDN >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> || >> @chrisdavidmills -- Fabrice Desré b2g team Mozilla Corporation _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
