[SailfishDevel] Update on SailfishOS roadmap

Mon Feb 16 16:02:03 UTC 2015

Tablet support will be provided in the SDK at some point and it will 
include a possibility to test your apps in the tablet screen size as 
well as other features from the new UI framework. In the mean time, if 
you're interested in a hack, you can try changing the emulator 
resolution manually by using vboxmanage in the terminal:
1. Get a list of the Virtualbox VMs and copy the UUID of the SailfishOS 
Emulator: "vboxmanage list vms"
2. Write down the current resolution: "vboxmanage getextradata UUID 
CustomVideoMode1"
3. Set a new resolution: "vboxmanage setextradata UUID CustomVideoMode1 
720x960x32"

- I'm using a smaller resolution with the tablet aspect ratio as an 
example, but you can obviously use the native resolutions also: 
1536x2048x32 for the tablet and 540x960x32 for the phone
- I suggest testing only portrait resolutions for the moment
- The scaling of the UI components etc. might change in the future

-Jarkko

On 14/02/15 08:49, Tomek wrote:
> Bijjal,
> about the tablet specific work.
>
> I am wondering how our applications would look like on the new tablet.
> Is there a way to modify the current Jolla phone emulator to use the 
> same resolution as the tablet to be?
>
>
> /Tomek
>
>
> Am 13.02.2015 um 14:09 schrieb Soumya Bijjal 
> <soumya.bijjal at jollamobile.com <mailto:soumya.bijjal at jollamobile.com>>:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Here is an update on our progress from the past month. Do note that 
>> they are all work in progress and not release ready for another few 
>> months.
>>
>> * Tablet hardware adaptation is nearly ready for MWC
>>  - USB charging, stereo speakers, sensors, accelerometer, Bluetooth, 
>> WLAN functionalities have been verified
>>
>> * Work on the new UI framework is progressing at a good pace
>>  - lock screen has been separated from the homescreen
>>  - improved notifications with visual grouping and additional actions
>>  - events view with a richer user experience
>>  - improved home screen interactions and transitions
>>  - new swipe edge transition
>>
>> * Lock screen media player controls implemented for the native media 
>> player app, under review 
>> https://together.jolla.com/question/3414/control-music-from-the-lock-screen/
>>
>> * IMAP idle/push support implemented 
>> https://together.jolla.com/question/493/imap-idle-imap-push-for-the-e-mail-app/
>>
>> * Landscape mode enabled in Maps
>>
>> * Toolchain has been updated (upgraded to GCC 4.8, binutils 2.25, 
>> switch  to Thumb2+NEON for ARM by default, march=i686 and SSE2 
>> minimum for X86)  and will take into effect with update13; expect a 
>> huge download size for  the update
>>
>> * Dual-stack support  (ipv4 and ipv6) for cellular connectivity in 
>> the middleware
>>
>> * Update to GStreamer 1.x: souphttpstc is enabled, AAC 
>> encoding/decoding works
>>
>> * Prototyping of encrypted filesystem: This is currently on hold for 
>> a short while due to MWC preparations
>>    - We have a development template to build filesystem layout on 
>> tablet that could allow home encryption
>>    - Most of the real work is still ahead of us: studying if in-place 
>> conversion  can be done with changing LVM logical volumes, /var/ 
>> encryption, user application binaries and user app data encryption 
>> and most of all placement to home instead of root, boot target for 
>> password query
>>
>> * Drop upower in favour of statefs:
>>  - udev is used directly to fetch power and battery temperature 
>> information via statefs power-udev provider
>>  - MCE now fetches battery info from statefs
>>
>> * Performance improvements:
>>  - Improved performance of adding items to the scenegraph, 
>> particularly when e.g. scrolling lists
>>  - Pool allocator for shadow nodes in the scenegraph used to reduce 
>> possible memory fragmentation
>>  - Substantially reduced the number of nodes required by the scenegraph
>>  - Reduced the amount of memory required by internal JS structures
>>  - Reduced the need to heap allocate when dealing with IR structures
>>  - Reduced the amount of memory required for SQLite caches
>>
>> As  for the next OS release, we are currently at release candidate 5 
>> for Yliaavanlampi (update 11) and expect to have another release 
>> candidate before we can decide on the release schedule.
>>
>> For this iteration, we have two main goals:
>>    1. Demonstrate the new UI framework and Tablet functionality at 
>> the Mobile World Congress, Barcelona
>>    2. Make the device usable in filesystem full condition to allow 
>> the user to recover from it on her own
>>
>> In addition, we have planned to work on the following:
>> * Tablet specific work:
>>  - Bluetooth audio configuration
>>  - Integrate microphone
>>  - Improve boot up and shutdown time
>>  - Support for OBEX FTP Bluetooth profile
>>  - Upgrade Bluetooth AVRCP to version 1.3
>>  - Check Bluetooth+WLAN coexistence
>>  - Verify MTP functionality
>>  - Performance improvements
>>  - Intel support for Android runtime
>> * Enable OpenVPN support on the OS
>> * Update to Facebook API 2.2
>> * Telepathy farstream / SIP Audio routing policy
>> * Bug fixing on issues related to Bluetooth sync, presence and 
>> accounts/calDAV
>> * New settings options to
>> - display disk space used by images, media, backup, app data etc
>> - display SD card information
>> * Update main view of Gallery app for the Tablet
>>
>> The following activities continue from the last iteration:
>> * Adapt middleware to modemless device i.e. Tablet
>> * Work towards Pulseaudio 6.0
>> * Drop upower in favour of statefs
>> * Allow factory reset operation to reset the OS to the latest 
>> available public version instead of the age old factory image
>> * Run btrfs balance operation before installing OS update
>> * Improvements to PackageKit for software update handling
>> * Sensor detection, USB, camera adaptation and filesystem layout for 
>> the Tablet
>> * USB tethering UI implementation 
>> https://together.jolla.com/question/3798/usb-tethering/
>> * Private browsing 
>> https://together.jolla.com/question/1821/private-mode-in-web-browser/
>> * Continue working on landscape mode for apps
>>
>> Thats all for now,
>> bijjal
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