Since my first blog post we got an huge amount of feedback and it’s amazing to see that you are as excited about KDE Connect as we are. This way I want to say “Thank you” for all your kind words and tell you that this kind of positive feedback is what keeps us going. I would also like to share some tips and tricks about KDE Connect that you might not know yet, but first I would like to clear up a common misconception.
After I shared the link to the KDE Connect Development Telegram group almost 20 people joined within 24 hours. I certainly did not expect such a interest in KDE Connect. When I joined the project about a year ago the hardest part for me was setting up a proper development workflow, meaning configuring, building, installing and debugging the application and interacting with git and Phabricator. To ease your start in KDE Connect development I would like to give you the guide I wish I had back then.
As I said a couple of days ago we got a lot to announce for KDE Connect. This is the first of many posts where I show you what we were up to. It may not be as exciting as you hoped for because the really big features are not-quite-ready, so hang on :) First we squashed some bugs, including a pretty nasty crash in the NotificationsPlugin. In my first post about KDE Connect I told you about the album cover art on Android.
Last weekend the core KDE Connect development team met for a sprint at the amazing Verse office in Barcelona. It was an amazing opportunity to get to know each other (most of us have never met before) and discuss the future of KDE Connect in an amazing and productive atmosphere. We squashed some bugs, implemented new features and laid the foundation for other ones. Some weeks ago we asked people on Reddit which features they liked to see in KDE Connect.
Hey there! We haven’t blogged about KDE Connect in a long time, but that doesn’t mean that we’ve been lazy. Some new people have joined the project and together we have implemented some exciting features. Our last post was about version 1.0, but recently we released version 1.8 of the Android app and 1.2.1 of the desktop component some time ago, which we did not blog about yet. Until now! We got some fancy new features in place:
