Add more examples of SailfishOS apps in SDK/emulator

asked 2015-05-07 20:34:45 +0200

Oleg Kuznetsov gravatar image

Hello! I'm thinking about developing an application for Sailfish OS however I don't have Jolla phone [yet]. [also] Unfortunately, I'm bad designer, so I prefer to look how other people create interfaces of their apps to get the idea of what should I do and what I shouldn't, but in case with Jolla it's hard: on-site documentation is poor (the only useful things are creating icons, gesture system and analysis of the Sample app). Only 2 samples are bundled with the SDK (and they freeze an editor, if I try to open them directly from the IDE via a combobox menu) and only 2 are distributed with the emulator: imho, this is definitely not enough. I had to ask folks on local Linux site to provide me some screenshots (as the reference) and got them, but honestly: this is what Jolla should place in the design section of the "Sailfish OS for Developers site"...

So, my suggestion: add more examples to the SDK and add more apps to the emulator: ideally, there should be all (or almost all default apps) preinstalled apps from the real Jolla phone. All other vendors with QML-based UI do it. Thank you.

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At openrepos you can find app information that is available from github. Code can be examined & download is possible. Deploy as RPM package and they are available at the emulator. It's a nice exercise...

rgrnetalk ( 2015-05-07 20:46:24 +0200 )edit

@rgrnetalk I'd prefer to see Jolla's apps to share the same look and feel and not to stand out against them

Oleg Kuznetsov ( 2015-05-07 20:57:00 +0200 )edit

Well sometimes it's just the Silica component which makes the difference so the rest is QtQuick

And there are some more code snippets inside the documentation.

imunar ( 2015-05-08 08:27:56 +0200 )edit