Summary
Plasma Mobile is a Plasma variant for smartphones.[2][3][4] It is currently available for the Pinephone, and supported devices for postmarketOS such as the OnePlus 6.[5]
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| Developer(s) | KDE |
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| Stable release | 5.27.10[1] 
/ 5 December 2023 |
| Preview release | n/a
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| Repository | invent |
| Written in | C++, QML |
| Operating system | Linux |
| License | GPLv2 |
| Website | plasma-mobile |
It is shipped by several Linux distributions, such as postmarketOS and Manjaro.[6]
History edit
After Plasma Active sponsor Coherent Theory (under the Make·Play·Live brand)[7][8] had given up their ambitions to release a tablet computer,[9] Blue Systems emerged as a new sponsor in 2015 and shifted the focus of Plasma's handheld work towards smartphones.[10][11] 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.[2] Pine64 began sales of their PinePhone mobile device, with the KDE Community Edition being made available as pre-orders on 1 December 2020.[12][13]
Technology edit
Plasma Mobile uses KWin's Wayland session and the Qt framework.[10] Distributions shipping Plasma Mobile can choose to support Android applications through Waydroid, which runs Android in a container on the device.[14]
See also edit
- Phosh
- Plasma Bigscreen
- Sxmo
References edit
- ^ "KDE Plasma 5.27.10, Bugfix Release for December". 5 December 2023. Retrieved 5 December 2023.
- ^ a b Swapnil Bhartiya (25 July 2015). "KDE Community announces fully open source Plasma Mobile". ITworld. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
- ^ Wallen, Jack (February 5, 2018). "Why KDE's Plasma Mobile is the ideal platform for Linux fans and developers". TechRepublic. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
- ^ Eddy, Max (2021-01-28). "Break Away From Android: 7 Free Open-Source Mobile OSes to Try". PCMag. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
- ^ "FAQ". www.plasma-mobile.org. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
- ^ "Distributions offering Plasma Mobile". Retrieved 17 November 2022.
- ^ Byfield, Bruce. "Orchestration". Linux Magazine. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
- ^ "Akademy: Plasma Active and Make Play Live". lwn.net.
- ^ Larabel, Michael (2014-05-24). "Improv Open ARM Board Failure Leads To A Ton Of In-Fighting". Phoronix. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
- ^ a b Bhartiya, Swapnil (25 July 2015). "Sebastian Kügler: KDE's Plasma Mobile is running on Plasma 5 and Kubuntu". ITworld. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
- ^ "Embracing Mobile". sebas' blog. Archived from the original on 30 July 2015. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
- ^ "PinePhone: KDE community edition". Plasma Mobile. 2020-12-01. Retrieved 2021-03-05.
- ^ "Introducing the PinePhone - KDE Community edition". KDE Community. 2020-11-15. Retrieved 2021-03-05.
- ^ "WayDroid brings lag-free Android app integration to the OnePlus 6/6T Linux port". TuxPhones. 24 July 2021. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
External links edit
- Official website