That's right — we're on an ambitious plan to build an open smartphone that puts Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) at the core of our ecosystem. Check ou...
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That's looking bloody amazing James !!!
Q: So using PWA technology, that still means all the apps running on your Prism need to be developed using your tools. Not possible to install/run existing apps, like Twitter that you are mentioning...
Keep up the AMAZING work James
I wonder if you could post builds for the PinePhone (Pro) occasionally, so we can play with it and possibly help debug, or do/can we build and load on phone.
Just super interested in what you're doing James !!
Hey Gert, thanks for your support! With regards to PWAs, any website can theoretically become an app for the Prism (it'll be added to the home screen and will act like an app). Websites with a Web App Manifest will also have extra features, such as being able to work offline, too — since Twitter has a manifest, it will essentially act like a native app!
Build-wise, it's certainly something we're looking forward to release — a few features (such as some kind of update mechanism!) would probably be needed to be added, but I'm sure we can release an early Alpha build fairly soon!
Of course, the PinePhone I have is non-Pro, but I should imagine that there's some sort of build compatibility with Pros I hope... Something I'll have to check!
Great, can't wait
Yes a build for the Pro would be amazing please
Cheers
Gert
This is insane! Can't wait to see the next posts.
Thank you! It's certainly an ambitious project of ours, but hopefully, we'll be able to provide updates with regards to the development of our project soon!
Whoa!
Thanks for checking my post out, Ben! This isn't your typical software-development-oriented type of post on dev.to, but I'm sure many people will appreciate both the software and hardware side in developing a smartphone platform...
Best of luck with your project!
Thanks! From where we are at so far, it seems to be going really well, and development has come a long way in such a short space of time! Fingers crossed we'll be able to share some more dev updates here sometime soon...
Can't wait to listen more from you guys!
Hopefully more should be on the way soon! There's already a few bug fixes and features that have been added since the video, so hopefully we should be able to provide an update at some point!
Thanks Leonid!
This project is so cool.
But I have a couple of questions.
2 Does Prism Project is able to run the web automation framework to test itself?
Such as Cypress or Robot framework
Thanks for sharing
Awesome work! I can't wait to have one in my hands and test it
Thanks! We've been working really hard on this first version, an alpha should be ready soon!