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Blog posts tagged
"Snap"

Sergio Schvezov
3 February 2017

Snapcraft 2.26 has been released

Internet of Things Article

Hello snapcrafters! We are pleased to announce the release of version 2.26 of snapcraft has been released: https://launchpad.net/snapcraft/+milestone/2.26 Contributions This release has seen some contributions from outside of the snapcraft core team, so we want to give a shout out to these folks, here’s a team thank you for: Björn Tilleni ...

David Callé
2 February 2017

Run scripts during snapcraft builds with “scriptlets”

Internet of Things Article

Please note: this blog post is over 5 years old and is out of date. Scriptlets have been superseded by Overrides. If you have snapped an application, or tried to snap an application, you know that Snapcraft heavily depends on built-in plugins for specific build systems and that it provides a large array of choices ...

Guest
26 January 2017

Using the ubuntu-app-platform content interface in app snaps

Internet of Things Article

This is a guest post by Olivier Tilloy, Engineer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact [email protected] Recently the ubuntu-app-platform snap has been made available in the store for application developers to build their snaps without bundling all their dependencies. The ubuntu-app-platform ...

didrocks
20 January 2017

tutorials.ubuntu.com goes live!

Internet of Things Article

We are really proud to announce that Tutorials Ubuntu went live this week! What are ubuntu tutorials? Ubuntu tutorials are a topic-specific walkthroughs, giving you a very practical experience on a particular domain. They are just like learning from pair programming except you can do it on your own! They provide a step-by-step process to ...

didrocks
18 January 2017

5 Cool things Canonical does with Go

Cloud and server Article

We had the recent news that Google’s Go was awarded programming language of 2016 by TIOBE! One of the main reasons for winning is the ease of learning and pragmatic nature. It’s less about theoretical nature and more about hands-on-experience, which is why more and more customers are adopting go in Industrial settings. At Canonical ...

Amrisha Prashar
5 January 2017

10 desktop snaps written in December

Desktop Article

It’s that time of the month! Evan Dandrea put together a selection of top ten snaps written in December. To recap for those of you that may not know, snaps are a new way for developers to package their apps, bringing with it many advantages over the more traditional package formats such as .deb, .rpm, ...

Didier Roche
8 December 2016

Christmas-music-carousel-snap

Internet of Things Article

Ding ding ding! It’s Christmas time, and as part of the festive competition we’re hosting that asks you to build a seasonal snap on your RaspberryPi…we couldn’t help but try out another example of our own. Didier from the dev team has created a Christmas music carousel snap! The snap allows you to play a ...

Guest
8 December 2016

Using the ubuntu-app-platform content interface in app snaps

Internet of Things Article

This is a guest post by Olivier Tilloy, Software Engineer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact [email protected] Recently the ubuntu-app-platform snap has been made available in the store for application developers to build their snaps without bundling all their dependencies. The ubuntu-app ...

Guest
28 November 2016

Mir is not only about Unity8

Desktop Article

This is a guest post by Alan Griffiths, Software engineer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact [email protected] Mir is a project to support the management applications on the display(s) of a computer. It can be compared to the more familiar X-Windows used on the current Ubuntu desktop (and ...

Guest
17 November 2016

How to create snap packages on Qt applications

Internet of Things Article

This is a guest post by Software engineers Tim Peeters and Timo Jyrinki at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact [email protected] Introduction One of the advantages of snap packages is that they are self-contained. When you install a snap, you know that you don’t need to install additional dep ...

Sergio Schvezov
15 November 2016

Making your snaps available to the store using snapcraft

Internet of Things Article

Now that Ubuntu Core has been officially released, it might be a good time to get your snaps into the Store! Delivery and Store Concepts So let’s start with a refresher on what we have available on the Store side to manage your snaps. Every time you push a snap to the store, the store ...

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