I've published an app to the Mozilla Marketplace and for the most part, it just work. As for the manifest file, you can get by with as little as: { "nam

I've published an app to the Mozilla Marketplace and for the most part, it just work. As for the manifest file, you can get by with as little as: { "name":"Example", "developer": { "name":"Developer", "url":"https://example.com" }, "description":"My Description", "icons":{ "128":"/img/icon.png" }, "launch_path": "/", "installs_allowed_from": ["*"] } With this, you can install your app from the Marketplace or from your own site (by serving it with the correct mime-type). It is relatively easy to get the app installed from your own site, if you choose to ignore the Marketplace entirely (our code does it in ~80 lines of CoffeeScript) as seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMxeK1_xY98 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMxeK1_xY98 One thing to keep in mind is that the window chrome which will house your application does not have back/forward buttons, does not have bookmarks, or an address bar. Remember this when designing your interface (you may been to provide in-app back/forward buttons, bookmarks, etc). The only problems I ran into when developing this was that the API was unstable at the time (a few months ago) and that relative URLs for installation didn't work (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745928 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745928) but the devs in the mozilla #webapps IRC channel were helpful. The nice thing about the Marketplace is that you can specify which form factor you want your app available to - Desktop/Laptop, Phone, Tablet. On the phone side, things are easy: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7uT3PPCyPD8/UP9RTN-392I/AAAAAAAAC0A/mh8tfq9BpLY/s668/Screenshot_2013-01-22-21-55-19.png https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7uT3PPCyPD8/UP9RTN-392I/A... https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-GB4Vt6YVTKA/UP9RSDzDy8I/AAAAAAAACz4/_iURmFiVTLw/s668/Screenshot_2013-01-22-21-55-30.png https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-GB4Vt6YVTKA/UP9RSDzDy8I/A... https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-dXnc0iuIBdM/UP9RRW_UILI/AAAAAAAACzw/EZcLT6_xR1Q/s668/Screenshot_2013-01-22-21-55-40.png https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-dXnc0iuIBdM/UP9RRW_UILI/A... https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-NReWzbudobw/UP9RnJEiHpI/AAAAAAAAC0I/4iH_q98qOVk/s668/Screenshot_2013-01-22-21-57-16.png https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-NReWzbudobw/UP9RnJEiHpI/A...