09-10-2021, 02:51 PM
(09-10-2021, 02:04 AM)biketool Wrote:(09-09-2021, 03:24 PM)ragreenburg Wrote: Good news is, I just released a new version with a few nice QOL fixes and an updated deb. Thank you for the encouraging words, honestly the struggle of trying and failing to make a deb/flatpak for hours on end made me want to just throw this project aside.
This is why we need a centralized and well documented/flowcharted way to Pinephone compatible apps with many examples even some video probably. It gets tricky because this is not x86, or AMD64 but a special build for every other device that the OSs support, which complicates things. So far I ahve been convinced that Flatpak is probably the way to go. I can only cheerleader and suggest solutions we come up with here, I am not a coder and I have no authority, I can help problem solve this issue which will in my opinion make or break the ecosystem and ultimately the success of the Pine mobile hardware platforms.
The success of the apple phone OS, Googles moble OS, Symbian, even Maemo Linux and WebOS Linux were ultimately usable because they had both a fully populated set of basic function apps as well as the accessory apps to cover most needs as are found in all of the above OSs. The fully populated 'app store' was strongly supported I know especially in the case of Palm and Nokia as basic competitive survival strategies.
I will try to get in contact with the big Pine related OS's communities(Manjaro, Mobian, and Postmarkett); I think UBports is too far off to join) and gauge their interest. We already have the offer of support from Pine64 but it has to be our effort and then ask for resources as needed.
I think you are absolutely right. The issue is for a Phosh app you kinda want to use Gtk since it is native and I wrote my app in python but there isn't a ton of resources out there to get help. I tried making a UT app a year or so ago but they use Clickable which has not great documentation which made it hard to understand anything and is the reason I never made that app. If you want a mobile ecosystem to succeed you need to make it easy for people to make apps, simple as that. The biggest reason people stop using the PP (aside from it being slow) is that it doesn't have the apps most people need/use in their day to day lives and if we don't get good documentation on how to make those apps then it will stop people from using the OS.