Ahoy all,
As you might have noticed, there has been lot of stuff happening on
application development and application releasing. Some of you who
have already submitted applications to Harbour (Jolla's app store
intake) have faced these challenges already. Thank you very much for
your submissions.
Here is a list of items we have identified that cause headache and
are
the reasons why your app might not have gotten store approval yet:
- Icon size:
·SDK still uses 90x90 icon size whereas the device uses 86x86.
Harbour
submission requires 86x86 icons. An update to the SDK will be
released
soon to sync it up to the new icon size.
- Icon path defined in .desktop file:
·Application icon path is not needed anymore (Icon=appname is
enough),
you will have to remove absolute paths for Harbour submission. The
home screen in upcoming SDK release will have a fix for this.
- Application name
·There will be a FAQ on Harbour regarding what file names need to
match the RPM package name at upload time. Your application name
should be in "dotted" form, e.g. com.example.myapp and we will soon
update Harbour to validate this and then all the applications should
follow this naming convention.
- QML API
·For QML application development we support QtQuick 2.x and Sailfish
Silica 1.0. In our repositories there are various other packages but
as they are not reviewed by us we cannot guarantee that APIs they
provide are available in future, so take caution when using them -
your application might be rejected or stop working if you are using
unsupported API.
- Shared libraries
·You can ship your own private copies of shared libraries that you
link against in /usr/share/<name of your app>/, you are not
allowed to
install shared libraries anywhere else.
- Private QML imports
·If you are using custom QML imports, you have to install them into
/usr/share/<name of your app>/, you are not allowed to install the
QML
imports anywhere else. Also, the name of your QML import must match
the application package name (e.g. an application
"org.example.coolapp" can only have a single private qml import
module, and that must be imported as "import org.example.coolapp
1.0").
- Runtimes
·Application runtimes such as Python are not supported yet, but we
are
actively working on getting Python support into shape, at which point
Python QML APIs will be allowed in Harbour. Stay tuned.
- More info
·There will be the mentioned FAQ page on Harbour which addresses the
known application submission problems.
Hopefully, most of these will make sense and not require
clarification
but if you need any help at all, just holler. We hope to expand the
list of supported APIs, and are interested in feedback from you as to
what you would like to see and be able to do in store applications.
Should you have any questions or improvement ideas of these, please
send replies to this mailing list.
Happy hacking,
The Jolla Crew
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