Plasma Mobile offer a Free (as in Freedom and beer), user-friendly, privacy-enabling and customizable platform for mobile devices. Plasma Mobile is Free software and developed in an open process. Plasma Mobile is currently under development, a prototype running on a smartphone and providing basic functionality is available.
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Plasma Mobile's goal is to enable the user to fully use her device. It is designed as an inclusive system, aiming at supporting all kinds of apps. Native apps are developed using Qt, but we also support apps written in GTK, Android apps, Ubuntu apps, and many others, as long as the license allows it and we can get it to work at a technical level.
Plasma Mobile's development process welcomes contributions at all levels. If you want to get your hands dirty on a cool app, if you want to provide a system functionality such as a mobile hotspot, if you want to improve power management at the kernel level, if you want to help with the design, Plasma Mobile welcomes your contributions.
If you want to take part in the creation of Plasma Mobile, get in touch with us!
The most common offerings on mobile devices lack openness and trust. In a world of walled gardens, we want to create a platform that respects and protects the user's privacy to the fullest. We want to provide a fully open base which others can help develop and use for themselves, or in their products.
As a Free software community, it is our mission to give the user an option to retain full control over their data. The choice for a mobile operating system should not be a choice between missing functions and a giving away privacy of your data and life. Plasma Mobile lets you choose the services you want to integrate deeply into your system. It won't share any data unless you explicitely ask it to.
Plasma Mobile is available as a developer prototype running on an LG Nexus 5 smartphone. It can make and receive phone calls, provides a workspace to manage the system and a task switcher to control and navigate apps on the device. We have included a number of apps, both native and 3rd party in the device images so the system can be tested and improved further.
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More info, such as installation instructions, is available in the Plasma Mobile wiki and on the Plasma Mobile website The code for various Plasma Mobile components can be found on git.kde.org
You can ask questions in our Plasma Mobile forum, or send an email to the plasma-devel mailing list, or (for private inquiries) to Sebastian Kügler (sebas@kde.org).