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The Simplicity of Making Librem 5 Apps

April 9, 2021 Librem 5, Software FLOSS applications / librem 5 /
Phones / Software freedom / Videos

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Francois Techene

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  * The Simplicity of Making Librem 5 Apps - April 9, 2021
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Getting started with developing applications for a mobile platform
can be a challenging task, especially when it comes to building and
testing the application on the mobile device itself.

The Librem 5 makes its application development workflow extremely
simple.

  * You don't need to worry about registering a developer account
    with some parent company.
  * You don't need to register your testing devices and ask the
    permission to a parent company just to be able to build and run
    your applications on those devices.
  * You don't need to "Jailbreak" your devices in order to access
    some restricted software or hardware features.
  * And the best part is that you don't need to worry about cross
    platform compiling because you can use the development tools
    directly on the phone.

The "quick start" video below that I made for the Librem 5 developers
documentation demonstrates how quickly you can get up and running
with making your own GTK applications on a Librem 5.

In this video, I have attached a Librem 5 to an external keyboard,
mouse and monitor through a USB-C hub, and I use GNOME Builder to
quickly create a new GTK application project, build it and run it on
both the big desktop monitor and the small mobile screen with just a
drag and drop across the screens.

Yes, I do all that with the computing power of the Librem 5 only!
There are no special effects nor a hidden desktop computer. I even
did the screencast recording with an external device so it shows the
real speed of the Librem 5 when driving a 32'' Full HD monitor.

https://videos.puri.sm/docs/getting-started-l5-dev.mp4

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