Meeting Notes

We need more people on this
What makes it hard to contribute to Plasma Mobile?
A lot of work can be done on desktop, doing things on hardware is quite hard at the moment, and for some things that is necessary.
Would an easy cross-compilation setup help? (e.g. via kdesrc-build)
Different use-cases
- Application development, ideally a single click in the IDE bringing your app on the phone
- Base image/shell development
Cross-compilation complexity vs emulated/native compilation performance
- binfmt emulation works also in combination with Docker
- this needs more documentation
weekly/nightly postmarketOS images would help a lot
- postmarketOS not using glibc and systemd can be a challenge

Primarily used hardware are the One+ 6, works better than the PinePhone.
- those devices are aging, makes it harder to be motivated to work on this for your own use
Fairphone could be an option
mainline Linux situation on random current phones has improved for the basics, camera etc still a challenge

consider Android as a stepping stone/proving ground for Plasma Mobile apps
less useful for apps using highly platform-specific APIs (dialer, calendar, KIO, etc)
- Merkuro is missing due to Akonadi
- kclock is missing due to maintainer decision
- Calindori and Plasma Phonebook work, but don't interact with the Android platform contact/calendar
Android apps not discoverable (not in Play Store and not in Google Play)
F-Droid:
- client fails when APK changed since the last repo update
- stable APKs are rebuilt daily, we don't have a proper release process as for other platforms
Google
- build pipeline into Play Store exist, but requires manual release steps, as well as some initial paperwork

is the current stack around Akonadi the right approach?
there is a ton of stuff in there we don't want to rewrite
Carl is working on optimizing the multi-process aspect
Dan is looking into replace MySQL with Sqlite in Akonadi
not something we want on Android though, there we should use the platform services
we'd also need sliding window sync in Akonadi (locally only having the last N days of state), which would probably also solve some of the performance problems by massively reducing the amount of local data

push notifications/prepare apps for suspending/killing background apps
push notifications need the server deployment and the XDG portal API, everything else should ready meanwhile