[SailfishDevel] Sideload Native App To Sailfish

[A. Wickert]

You don't need the developermode to install RPMs. You can install RPMs 
easily from the FileManager.


On 05/02/14 08:18, christopher.lamb at thurweb.ch wrote:
> No rooting (or jailbreaking) pr verboten-hacks required.
>
> Just put the phone into developer mode. In theory any user can do this 
> with a few clicks.
>
> Then you can install anything that will run.
>
> However this route does imply that the user has some idea of what they 
> are doing, just a a user installing on a Linux desktop will need some 
> idea as well. It might not be a route for a stereotypical grandma.
>
> Apologies in a advance to all the 
> non-stereotypical-Linux-savvy-Jolla-wielding-grandmas who are part of 
> this mailing list.
>
>
>
> Grüsse
>
> Chris
>
> Zitat von "Network Nut" <sillystack at gmail.com>:
>
>> 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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