Articles for #mobile

Towards a GNOME Mobile Test Suite

October 28, 2024

GNOME’s integration is tested via GNOME OS and openQA, but there are issues preventing to test GNOME Mobile the same way. Learn more about them.

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Making a Platform Adaptive for Everyone

June 10, 2021

When we announced the Librem 5, we knew we would have to invest in and build a mobile operating system and applications to run on it — by “mobile” understand “for smartphones”. To avoid reinventing the wheel, we decided to base that system on an existing environment. Librem laptops ship with our operating system PureOS, which provides GNOME as its graphical user environment as it is a modern environment and a very active project with which we share many goals, design principles and values.

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Introducing Libadwaita

March 31, 2021

GNOME 41 will come with libadwaita, the GTK 4 port of libhandy that will play a central role in defining the visual language and user experience of GNOME applications.

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What’s New in Libhandy 1.2

March 12, 2021

Libhandy 1.2 just got released in time for GNOME 40, we recommend you to use this adaptive GTK widgets library in your apps targeting that GNOME version.

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Specify Form-Factors in Your Librem 5 Apps

October 15, 2020

While more and more applications are being redesigned to take smartphones like the Librem 5 into account, PureOS still offers lots of desktop applications which are not ready to run on such devices yet.

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Handy 1 Alpha 1 and Migrating to GNOME

May 22, 2020

A few days ago we released the first alpha of Handy 1, known as Handy 0.80.0. It comes with tons of new features, such as: HdyWindow and its companion widgets, a free-form unified window that Alice presented in a blog post; HdyDeck, that you can picture as a swipeable and spatialization-aware stack; HdyViewSwitcherTitle, a simpler way to implement a view switcher in a titlebar; overhauled HdyActionRow and HdyExpanderRow; many smaller widget refinements; overhauled theming support, implemented with SASS and supporting dark variants and per-theme stylesheets; vastly improved Glade support; a cleaned up API, see the migration documentation.

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libhandy 0.0.10

June 13, 2019

libhandy 0.0.10 just got released, and it comes with a few new adaptive widgets for your GTK app. You can get this new version here.

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My Name is Handy, Lib Handy

January 19, 2019

Libhandy 0.0.7 just got released! I didn’t blog about this mobile and adaptive oriented GTK widget library since the release of its 0.0.4 version three months ago, so let’s catch up on what has been added since.

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Librem 5 ❤️ GNOME 3.32

October 11, 2018

I am glad to announce that the tooling I am working on since the beginning of the year is ready to be used! Thanks to new features introduced into libhandy 0.0.3 and 0.0.4 and thanks to a few fixes to Adwaita in GTK+ 3.24.1, you can make GTK+ 3 apps adaptive to work both on the desktop and on the upcoming GNOME-based Librem 5 phone.

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Adaptive GNOME Web

May 10, 2018

I started working on making GNOME Web work well on the Librem 5; to be sure it fits a phone’s screen I want the windows to fit in a 360 points width, which is definitely small. To do so I started with the advices from Tobias Bernard to make Web have two modes that I named normal and narrow. The normal mode is Web as you know it, while the narrow mode moves all buttons from the header bar but the hamburger menu to a new action bar at the bottom, letting the windows reach yet unreachable widths.

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One Widget to Adapt Them All and to The Librem 5 Port Them

March 3, 2018

In my previous article I shared my plans to help porting existing GTK+ applications to Purism’s upcoming Librem 5 phone without having to fork them. This article will present the GTK+ widget I developed for Purism to make this happen.

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GTK+ Apps on Phones

January 25, 2018

As some of you may already know, I recently joined Purism to help developing GTK+ apps for the upcoming Librem 5 phone. Purism and GNOME share a lot of ideas and values, so the GNOME HIG and GNOME apps are what we will focus on primarily: we will do all we can to not fork nor to reinvent the wheel but to help allowing existing GTK+ applications to work on phones.

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