Plasma Mobile

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]

Plasma Mobile
Developer(s)KDE
Stable release
5.27.8[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 12 September 2023
Preview release
n/a
Repositoryinvent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-mobile
Written inC++, QML
Operating systemLinux
LicenseGPLv2
Websiteplasma-mobile.org

It is shipped by several Linux distributions, such as postmarketOS and Manjaro.[6]

History

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] However, this stopped in 2021, with the project now being maintained by volunteers.[12]

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.[13][14]

Technology

Plasma Mobile uses KWin's Wayland session.[10] Distributions shipping Plasma Mobile can choose to support Android applications through Waydroid, which runs Android in a container on the device.[15]

See also

References
  1. "KDE Plasma 5.27.8, Bugfix Release for September". 12 September 2023. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  2. Swapnil Bhartiya (25 July 2015). "KDE Community announces fully open source Plasma Mobile". ITworld. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  3. Wallen, Jack (February 5, 2018). "Why KDE's Plasma Mobile is the ideal platform for Linux fans and developers". TechRepublic. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
  4. Eddy, Max (2021-01-28). "Break Away From Android: 7 Free Open-Source Mobile OSes to Try". PCMag. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
  5. "FAQ". www.plasma-mobile.org. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
  6. "Distributions offering Plasma Mobile". Retrieved 17 November 2022.
  7. Byfield, Bruce. "Orchestration". Linux Magazine. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
  8. "Akademy: Plasma Active and Make Play Live". lwn.net.
  9. Larabel, Michael (2014-05-24). "Improv Open ARM Board Failure Leads To A Ton Of In-Fighting". Phoronix. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
  10. Bhartiya, Swapnil (25 July 2015). "Sebastian Kügler: KDE's Plasma Mobile is running on Plasma 5 and Kubuntu". ITworld. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  11. "Embracing Mobile". sebas' blog. Archived from the original on 30 July 2015. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  12. "Moving on". Bhushan's Blog. 17 May 2021. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
  13. "PinePhone: KDE community edition". Plasma Mobile. 2020-12-01. Retrieved 2021-03-05.
  14. "Introducing the PinePhone - KDE Community edition". KDE Community. 2020-11-15. Retrieved 2021-03-05.
  15. "WayDroid brings lag-free Android app integration to the OnePlus 6/6T Linux port". TuxPhones. 24 July 2021. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
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