[SailfishDevel] Sideload Native App To Sailfish

Network Nut sillystack at gmail.com
Wed Feb 5 03:47:02 UTC 2014


Hi All,

 

I have what I imagine to be a very common problem:

 

1.       There will be billions of people who own smartphones.

2.       I have a 100% native Linux C++ app that I would like a few of those
billions of people to use. These are my future customers.

3.       I do not necessarily want to use an app store of any kind, if I
choose not to use any.

4.       I would like for my customers to decide, at their own discretion,
whether to side-load my native app onto their smartphone by going to my web
site, and not an app store.

5.       I would like to avoid having my customers call my tech-support line
and listen on the phone for 30 minutes as one of my tech-support
representatives tells him/her how to root their phone so that they can
side-load my app.

 

In other words, I would like the same situation that exists now under the
desktop model, where anyone who owns a desktop computer has full discretion
of what they do with their computer, without (significant) restrictions from
the OS vendor.

 

I understand that Jolla allows 100% true native C++ apps, but I was unable
to determine, with a quick search on the WWW, whether Jolla allows 100%
native C++ apps under the acquisition model above.

 

Can anyone clarify? Is it true that the owner of a Jolla smartphone will be
able to determine for himself/herself whether to side-load a third-party
native application without jumping through hoops to bypass restrictions
created by the OS?

 

Regards,

 

-Nut

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