Re:Runs on the Librem 5 Smartphone – Week 2
by mikece on Friday July 12, 2019 @12:07AM
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Is there any reason why applications cannot be written for the Librem 5 with Flutter? The Flutter framework compiles to ARM binary and the UI is rendered with Skia, a C++ UI layer. It's not like a bunch of widgets would need to be written and supported on Librem, just the Skia layer. What am I missing?
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That would be a massive amount of work. In my opinion, Purism correctly limited the scope of the original proposal -- a FOSS phone that can make calls, and send messages (and maybe use a web browser?). libhandy (the library that allows GTK applications to "shrink" their UI for a phone) is intended to minimise work by allowing Purism to take advantage to existing software (e.g. Settings, Web browser). Even this is a huge amount of work (I've written about it here/Reddit in the past).
Re:Runs on the Librem 5 Smartphone – Week 2
by RandomBacon on Friday July 12, 2019 @12:09AM
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They aren't writing applications, they are improving Gnome to work with small touch displays.