There is now an 'on the go' section in Flathub to promote mobile apps
There is now an 'on the go' section in Flathub to promote mobile apps
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What makes these "mobile apps"? Are they special versions optimized for phones?
They are enabled to (also) run on phones. E.g. libadwaita makes it possible to write application which can adapt to the screen size and therefore run on big and small screens.
What does "enabled" mean?
e.g. Fractal can scale down to mobile:
Hey, Fractal looks pretty cool. Might just replace Element.
Lacks many features atm, eg VoIP, matrix call, threads, etc. Still very promising and I like that it is written in Rust.
I like Commet
oh, very cool
Are these your screenshots? If so, what hardware and OS are you running, out of curiosity?
Yes, they are mine. I guess the question is targeted if they are done on a mobile device. The screenshots are done on Fedora Silverblue Gnome on a Dell XPS 13 laptop developer version (~7 years old). But I also have the Librem 5.
You can put the newer apps in a 'simulate phone screen' mode (it's still in development).
Sounds fractal
You don't need libadwaita to do that. Lots of KDE apps are designed to work on mobile. Libadwaita just makes everything broken outside of Gnome.
Didn't I write e.g.?
You sure did. Maybe libadwaita even includes tools to make it easier or something, I don't know. I just think maybe the toolkit that breaks everything all the time isn't the best example.
I know there is a lot of hate around.
Nevertheless I find it a good example, because I think they have implemented the adaptivity between big and small screen sizes very well.
Call it hate if you want, but it is an intentional design decision to break compatibility with other DEs. That is a choice they consciously made and have been very clear in communicating. There are trade offs involved. I'm not saying it's a completely irrational choice or anything, but it is aggravating for those of us that don't use Gnome when we have to deal with libadwaita apps. Libadwaita is designed from the ground up to be a Gnome exclusive thing. It is not for Linux. It is just for Gnome. That is the developers' stated intention.