Mobile interface

The mobile interface is SonicDE's shell for phones, built with the same technologies as the desktop. It lives in the sonic-mobile-interface repository, which still uses its upstream name, Plasma Mobile, in places such as the session name.

To write an application for it, start with the Kirigami tutorial. Kirigami applications adapt to the size of the screen, so the same application can run on the desktop and on a phone. To write a widget, see the Plasma documentation.

#Current status

The shell runs on X11, and its session starts through startplasma-x11. It hasn't been tried on a phone yet. Some things differ from the upstream Plasma Mobile:

• Navigation uses the panel's buttons. Touch gestures such as swiping up for the task switcher aren't available, because SonicWin's gesture handlers don't activate on X11.
• The on-screen keyboard is Sonic Keyboard. It runs inside each application and opens when a text field gets focus, so the panel's keyboard buttons only control a keyboard in the shell itself.
• There is no Waydroid integration or screen recording quick setting, as both depend on Wayland.
• Quick settings can't appear over the lock screen. Raising a window over the locker is a Wayland feature, and RaiseLockscreen does nothing here.

#In this section

• Execute applications covers the environment for running and debugging applications and the shell.
• Porting a new device explains what hardware support is needed and how to add a device's settings.
• Telephony stack describes the layers between the modem and the applications, and which of them SonicDE ships.