Plasma Mobile Explained

Plasma Mobile
Developer:KDE
Programming Language:C++, QML
Operating System:Linux
License:GPLv2

Plasma Mobile is a Plasma variant for smartphones.[1] [2] [3] It is currently available for the Pinephone, and supported devices for postmarketOS such as the OnePlus 6.[4]

It is shipped by several Linux distributions, such as postmarketOS and Manjaro.[5]

History

After Plasma Active sponsor Coherent Theory (under the Make·Play·Live brand)[6] [7] had given up their ambitions to release a tablet computer,[8] Blue Systems emerged as a new sponsor in 2015 and shifted the focus of Plasma's handheld work towards smartphones.[9] [10] The official announcement of the new form-factor interface was on 25 July 2015 at Akademy, accompanied by a working prototype running on a Nexus 5.Pine64 began sales of their PinePhone mobile device, with the KDE Community Edition being made available as pre-orders on 1 December 2020.[11] [12]

Technology

Plasma Mobile uses KWin's Wayland session and the Qt framework. Distributions shipping Plasma Mobile can choose to support Android applications through Waydroid, which runs Android in a container on the device.[13]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Swapnil Bhartiya. 25 July 2015. KDE Community announces fully open source Plasma Mobile. 23 August 2015. ITworld.
  2. Web site: February 5, 2018. Jack . Wallen. Why KDE's Plasma Mobile is the ideal platform for Linux fans and developers. 2021-06-07. TechRepublic. en.
  3. Web site: Max . Eddy. 2021-01-28. Break Away From Android: 7 Free Open-Source Mobile OSes to Try. 2021-06-07. PCMag. en-gb.
  4. Web site: FAQ. 2020-07-18. www.plasma-mobile.org.
  5. Web site: Distributions offering Plasma Mobile. 17 November 2022.
  6. Web site: Byfield. Bruce. Orchestration. 2019-04-28. Linux Magazine.
  7. Web site: Akademy: Plasma Active and Make Play Live. lwn.net.
  8. Web site: Larabel. Michael. 2014-05-24. Improv Open ARM Board Failure Leads To A Ton Of In-Fighting. 2019-04-28. Phoronix.
  9. Web site: Bhartiya. Swapnil. 25 July 2015. Sebastian Kügler: KDE's Plasma Mobile is running on Plasma 5 and Kubuntu. 23 August 2015. ITworld.
  10. Web site: Embracing Mobile. 23 August 2015. sebas' blog. 30 July 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150730100322/http://vizzzion.org/blog/2015/07/embracing-mobile/. dead.
  11. Web site: 2020-12-01. PinePhone: KDE community edition. 2021-03-05. Plasma Mobile. en.
  12. Web site: 2020-11-15. Introducing the PinePhone - KDE Community edition. 2021-03-05. KDE Community. en.
  13. Web site: WayDroid brings lag-free Android app integration to the OnePlus 6/6T Linux port. 17 November 2022. TuxPhones. 24 July 2021 .

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