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Introduction — App Publishing

So you've figured out how you'll make your app a success, chosen how to deliver it and seen the options for delivering it beyond Firefox OS, and written and tested your code. Now it's time to make it available to users worldwide and publish it on Firefox Marketplace. This section provides a guide to all the tasks you need to perform to publish and update your Open Web Apps on Firefox Marketplace, as well as useful additional information.
 

Publishing guide

Submission checklist
This checklist will help you prepare for submitting your app.
Marketplace review
Understand the process and criteria used when your app is reviewed.

Policies and Guidelines

Icons (App Center)
Get details of the icon sizes required for various releases of Firefox OS.
Icon design (Mozilla Style Guide)
Your app or in-app product icons may follow a circlar or square design, find out more from the Mozilla Style Guide.
Privacy Policies
If your app uses personal data about a user, it must have a privacy policy. These guidelines cover the information you need to include in your app's privacy policy.
Screenshot guidelines
These guidelines provide information on the best approaches to the screenshots  you include in your app's Marketplace listing.
App testing and troubleshooting
These guidelines provide information on setting up a test environment, testing your app and troubleshooting issues you may find.

Submitting your app

App submission process guide
So you're ready to publish your first app, or want to publish an app with a packaging method or features you haven't used before, get step-by-step instructions for submitting your app to Firefox Marketplace.

Updating your app

Updating apps
Maintaining the momentum behind your app means offering users regular updates; for new features and, although we all hope not, bug fixes. This page provides the information you need on how to deliver your app updates through Firefox Marketplace.

Managing your published apps

App management guide
Your app is published and you now want to make changes or find out how well it's been received. In this section discover how to change your app status, review statistics, and check your reviews and ratings on Firefox Marketplace.

Additional Tools

Adding a subdomain for your app
If you want to offer more than one hosted app from your website, you'll need to create a subdomain for each one. This page explains how.

 

Document Tags and Contributors

Tags: 
  • Apps
  • Beginner
  • Firefox OS
  • Intro
  • Marketplace
 Contributors to this page: chrisdavidmills, rebloor, Sheppy
 Last updated by: chrisdavidmills, Feb 15, 2016, 6:14:54 AM
  1. Prepare for success
    1. Introduction
    2. Deciding what to build
    3. Getting to know your users
    4. Choosing your business model
    5. Localizing your apps
    6. Promoting your app
    7. Creating your community
  2. Your publication options
    1. Introduction
    2. Packaged apps
    3. Hosted apps
    4. Packaged or hosted?
    5. Mobile-optimized websites
    6. Publish apps yourself
  3. App publishing overview
    1. Introduction
    2. Submission checklist
    3. Marketplace review criteria
    4. Marketplace showcase criteria
    5. Adding a subdomain for an app
    6. Policies and Guidelines
      1. Introduction
      2. Marketplace screenshot criteria
      3. Privacy policy
      4. App testing and troubleshooting
  4. Submit your app
    1. Overview
    2. Step 1: Sign-in
    3. Step 2: Load app
    4. Step 3: Listing details
    5. Step 4: Next steps
    6. Step 5: App rating
    7. Step 6: Define team members
    8. Step 7: View listing
    9. Step 8: Edit other localizations
  5. Managing and updating published apps
    1. Introduction
    2. Your app's status
    3. Updating apps
    4. App Stats
  6. Add-on submission
    1. Add-on submission overview
    2. Add-on review criteria
  7. Libraries and APIs
  8. Firefox Marketplace FAQ