[SailfishDevel] Tablet version SDK a.k.a 2.0

[Luciano Montanaro]

Well, I suppose that depending on the application you will need to
make adaptations.
But I suppose applications should largely work without changes.
Tweaking the UI may be useful, but there is not much that can be made
right now. I doubt there is much to share anyway... We are looking at
the development of SailfishOS almost in realtime... I doubt the
features of production SailfishOS  are more than three months older
than those in active development.

There are activities you may do now to ensure some form of forward
compatibility: be sure to use only element sizes and styling based on
the Theme class, do not assume the values are fixed, make sure your
application works in landscape as well as in portrait...
Do not assume PullDown and PopUp menus come from a specific
direction... If you have custom graphics, make it use SVG to allow for
scaling.

For covers, do not assume you will have the sizes will match the
current covers.

Maybe we will get new QML items with the new Sailfish OS, I hope they
will work in the phone and tablet form factors anyway.

Games with graphics will have the harder time porting... utility
applications could likely be workable without too many tweaks.

I suppose we will be able to test anything on our phones before we
will put our hands on the tablet.

I am not worried at all about the SDK availability, what worries me is
the limited number of interfaces allowed on the official store.

Luciano


On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 9:59 AM, jerome levreau
<levreau.jerome at vostoksystem.eu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I disagree Luciano.
> I'm too concern about an early sdk release for the tablet : Yes my apps will
> work on the tablet, services classes won't change but I definitively have to
> rethink layout (qml) and navigation to fit this new form factor. A simple
> scale up version will look awful...
> As pointed out, arch is different, that (probably) answers the question
> either app has to fit both or a new version will have to be build.
>
> I thinks mine will be delivered on the third batch ; wondering if dev
> contributor might get it even earlier for testing  ?
>
> Bye
>
> 2014-11-20 10:09 GMT+01:00 Luciano Montanaro <mikelima at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Andrey is being ironic, I suppose, but it is a good guess.
>>
>> I don't think you need to care, though:
>> The SDK will probably be updated a couple of times before "Sailfish
>> 2.0", with interim updates...
>> I think that, as long as your app works on a phone, it will work on
>> the tablet. Maybe layout will not be optimal, but that can be fixed
>> later on.
>>
>> Luciano
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Fabio Isgrò <fabio.isgro at messinalug.org>
>> wrote:
>> > So 4th week of May 15  or 1week of Jun 15 ?
>> >
>> > On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Andrey Kozhevnikov
>> > <coderusinbox at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> a week after OS update released, as usual :D
>> >>
>> >> 20.11.2014 00:52, Alex Smirnoff пишет:
>> >>
>> >> Is that already known when new SDK will be available?
>> >>
>> >> Could not wait to port Gcompris to Jolla.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Alex Smirnov
>> >>
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