![]() Unity Mail is a cool app that allows you to stay up to date with your web mail directly from your desktop. ![]() We're starting to see more and more apps that integrate with Unity. The Day Ahead: Upcoming Sessions for Day 3ġ6.00 UTC - Unity Mail: Webmail Notification on Your Desktop The next upcoming changes in the way this applications are reviewed will most probably include them being submitted through the MyApps online portal and them being made more secure by wrapping them in a container based on AppArmor or Arkose (or a combination of them).Ĭheck out the session log here. ![]() The types of apps reviewed by the ARB are small, lightweight apps, usually of the type created by Quickly (check out the sessions on Quickly on Thursday!). He focused on how the Board reviews applications and how other types are distributed in Ubuntu. Publishing Your Apps in the Software Center: The App Review Board By Stéphane GraberĬomplementing the previous session, Stéphane explained how libre+gratis apps can get into the Software Centre and what the App Review Board's (ARB) role is in that process. Hinting to Jonathan Lange's session on day 1, Anthony explained that they are looking at providing an automated process for packaging, with the intention of removing the last big remaining manual process.Ĭheck out the session log here. Once an app has been submitted, it needs to be packaged (if it wasn't already) and reviewed before being published. He then walked the audience through the 5-step process to send an app for review, including all the necessary metadata and payment details. Available on, it started off as the need to automate the submission of commercial apps to the Software Centre, expanding to a full-blown online portal that can now tackle any type of submission. ![]() In another session devoted to the app developer strategy, Anthony told us all about the MyApps webapp developers can use to submit their applications to the Software Center. Publishing Your Apps in the Software Center: The MyApps Portal By Anthony Lenton The highlights included the GDP Bazaar integration plug in, which allows working with the bzr source revision control system and others (Subversion, Mercurial, Git), as well as the Source Code Browser plugin, a class and function browser based on Exuberant Ctags.Ĭheck out the session log here. Starting off with a description of Gedit plugins, their purpose and how to install them, Curtis delved into the general-purpose plugins and the developer plugins (click to install) plugins, explaining how to set them up and his recommended choice of plugins to convert Gedit in the perfect programming editor. Making App Development Easy: Gedit Developer Plugins By Curtis Hovey From there he went on describing the Unity 2D architecture and the release policy, pointing out to the Unity 2D daily PPA, for those testers who want to be on the bleeding edge., and wrapped up answering the questions from the audience.Ĭheck out the session log here. It essentially is an implementation of the main Unity user interface using the Qt toolkit and the QML declarative language, while reusing the backend technologies from Unity. ![]() The Making of Unity 2D By Florian BoucaultĪn interactive and popular session, in which Florian started describing the main goal behind the Unity 2D project: to run on platforms that do not provide accelerated OpenGL. From setting up code hosting for a seamless integration, to setting up the translations settings to tips and tricks for best practices, the presentation should give developers a good grasp of how to start getting their apps translated and ready to reach a wider audience.Ĭheck out the session log here. In this session we learned how to link up an app that already has internationalization support to Launchpad Translations, so that it is exposed to Launchpad's extensive community of translators who'll effectively make your app speak almost any language. Making Your App Speak Languages with Launchpad Translations By David Planella 5 min read Ubuntu App Developer Week - Day 2 SummaryĪnother app developer day is over and we're nearly halfway through the week. ![]()
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