Plasma Mobile in Randa(aaaaaaaa)
Last week I had a chance to attend the Randa meetings 2017, my plan was to work on the Plasma Mobile during the sprint, improve the state of current images. A few things changed over the course of the...
View ArticleHow to emulate Plasma Mobile on your machine with qemu
If you want to develop for Plasma Mobile, but you don’t have a Mobile device, it is useful to emulate a Plasma Mobile on your desktop or laptop. Earlier this was not documented and has been asked...
View ArticleHow do I test Plasma Mobile? (part 1)
Last week we asked the Free Software community what they wanted to do to help us move forward with Plasma Mobile. These were the results from the poll on Twitter:And this was what the poll on Google+...
View ArticleHow do I test Plasma Mobile? (part 2)
The first part of this series focused on testing Plasma Mobile on virtual machine and/or on a PC/laptop. In this second part we will focus on testing Plasma Mobile on actual mobile devices.Currently...
View ArticlePlasma Mobile on open devices
Plasma Mobile reference images are based on halium, which uses the propietary binary blobs to make use of phone hardware. This requires the libhybris which allows us to use bionic based binary blobs in...
View ArticleI'm going to QtCon and Akademy 2016
QtCon starts on this Sept 1st and I will be traveling to Berlin on this Tuesday. This is second Akademy I am attending after Akademy 2014 in Czech Republic. During QtCon I am giving presentation titled...
View ArticlePlasma Mobile running on Nexus 5X (bullhead)
Currently Plasma Mobile is supported by very small number of devices, for example Nexus 5, and One plus one. These devices uses Android 5.0 or CM12 as their base. Current libhybris upstream doesn’t...
View ArticleCyanogenMod, LineageOS and Plasma Mobile
We are at almost end of 2016, unfortunately 2016 also took away great project with it, Cyanogenmod. However there is fork named LineageOS in pipeline. Given we switched our android base to CyanogenMod...
View ArticleNeon CI was down, Why?
This post is public service announcement regarding the KDE Neon infrastructure.Earlier we KDE neon developers decided that we should build the armhf and/or arm64 packages on Neon CI itself instead of...
View ArticleAkademy 2017 - Recap
Last month I had opportunity to visit the Almería, Spain for Akademy 2017. Akademy 2017 is KDE’s annual world summit. Akademy makes it possible to meet the felow KDE contributors, some of whom you only...
View ArticlePlasma Mobile in Randa(aaaaaaaa)
Last week I had a chance to attend the Randa meetings 2017, my plan was to work on the Plasma Mobile during the sprint, improve the state of current images. A few things changed over the course of the...
View ArticleHow to emulate Plasma Mobile on your machine with qemu
If you want to develop for Plasma Mobile, but you don’t have a Mobile device, it is useful to emulate a Plasma Mobile on your desktop or laptop. Earlier this was not documented and has been asked...
View ArticleHow do I test Plasma Mobile? (part 1)
Last week we asked the Free Software community what they wanted to do to help us move forward with Plasma Mobile. These were the results from the poll on Twitter:And this was what the poll on Google+...
View ArticleHow do I test Plasma Mobile? (part 2)
The first part of this series focused on testing Plasma Mobile on virtual machine and/or on a PC/laptop. In this second part we will focus on testing Plasma Mobile on actual mobile devices.Currently...
View ArticlePlasma Mobile on open devices
Plasma Mobile reference images are based on halium, which uses the propietary binary blobs to make use of phone hardware. This requires the libhybris which allows us to use bionic based binary blobs in...
View ArticleFind your way to Plasma Mobile
Find your own way to help develop Plasma MobileThe Plasma Mobile project was started by the KDE community with the goal of becoming a free, user-friendly, privacy-enabling and customizable platform for...
View ArticlePlasma Mobile at Plasma Sprint Valencia
In June month we gathered in Slimbook’s offices to work on Plasma. Along with Plasma developers, we were also joined by KDE Usability and Productivity team.During the sprint I mostly worked to create...
View ArticleAkademy 2019 recap
Akademy 2019 was hosted in the Milan, Italy. I had opportunity to attend the event and meet the other KDE developers, designers and users.TalksThere were many interesting talks, including use of...
View ArticleKeysmith v0.1 release
I am happy to announce the v0.1 release of the keysmith.Keysmith is Two-factor code generator for Plasma Mobile and Desktop.You can get first release from...
View ArticlePlasma Mobile as Daily Driver on PinePhone
Last week I was in Bluesystems GmbH meeting in Germany, almost 7000 km away from home. While one would hope that this journey is smooth, of-course this was not case for my journey. I missed my phone in...
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