jdb353 wrote:There's a Utah-based Mozilla community with a couple of people interested in developing an LDS scriptures app. Join us on Mozilla's IRC server in #mozillautah and ping me (gueroJeff) or Garrett (garrettn) so we can coordinate an effort.
One thing that we really need to understand is the availability for use to use the scriptures in a Firefox OS app like this (licensing issues, etc.). Could a moderator comment on that please?
There is an API for third-party apps to access the scriptures as described in the wiki article
Third-party API for gospel content. However, to become a real Gospel Library app like those on iOS, Android, and Windows 8, you would definitely want to hook into the APIs that allow syncing of annotations with LDS.org. That requires the use of LDS Account authentication, which is only available to official Church applications. Official applications can only be developed under the direction of Church employees, but with that direction, much of the work can be done by volunteers.
See
this post, which is in the middle of a discussion of how the Windows 8 version of Gospel Library evolved from a totally volunteer effort into an official app.
Questions that can benefit the larger community should be asked in a public forum, not a private message.
