<story><title>PinePhone Pro Announced</title><url>https://www.pine64.org/pinephonepro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>officeplant</author><text>As a owner of many pine64 products I wish there was a clear path to learning how to contribute.  My last time coding was C++ class over 16 years ago and I wish I had some sort of idea on how to get started with hobby programming in my spare time as an adult.&lt;p&gt;Edit&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F; Especially since I&amp;#x27;ve jumped on the ARM bandwagon and replaced my desktop with an M1 mac and my laptop with a Pinebook Pro.</text></item><item><author>djent</author><text>It is frustrating to me that despite the blunt verbiage about it being a beta device for software and hardware developers, people even here are griping about it being not ready for everyday use. If a free and open-source mobile operating system is missing software support for a feature you want, please contribute to its development.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ognarb</author><text>Create apps! This is the most needed. We created a tutorial for Kirigami here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;develop.kde.org&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;kirigami&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;develop.kde.org&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;kirigami&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;. There are also a few tutorials for GTK&amp;#x2F;libhandy with e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tuxphones.com&amp;#x2F;tutorial-developing-responsive-linux-smartphone-apps-gnome-builder-gtk-libhandy-gtk-part-1&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tuxphones.com&amp;#x2F;tutorial-developing-responsive-linux-s...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also join the developer channels on matrix: #plasmamobile:kde.org (not sure that the address for the GNOME one)</text></comment>
<story><title>PinePhone Pro Announced</title><url>https://www.pine64.org/pinephonepro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>officeplant</author><text>As a owner of many pine64 products I wish there was a clear path to learning how to contribute.  My last time coding was C++ class over 16 years ago and I wish I had some sort of idea on how to get started with hobby programming in my spare time as an adult.&lt;p&gt;Edit&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F; Especially since I&amp;#x27;ve jumped on the ARM bandwagon and replaced my desktop with an M1 mac and my laptop with a Pinebook Pro.</text></item><item><author>djent</author><text>It is frustrating to me that despite the blunt verbiage about it being a beta device for software and hardware developers, people even here are griping about it being not ready for everyday use. If a free and open-source mobile operating system is missing software support for a feature you want, please contribute to its development.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blihp</author><text>Just pick something that bothers you or you think is missing and start working on it.  I&amp;#x27;d recommend something application, as opposed to system, level to get started.  That way you can develop using something like Python and not worry about lots of other dependencies on whatever you&amp;#x27;re working on.&lt;p&gt;There generally isn&amp;#x27;t much in the way of formal organization in the open source world... just scratch an itch that you have.  There are relatively few people working on things specific to Linux on mobile so even a modest contribution can have a big impact.  For example, the developer of the Megapixels camera app, which is a vast improvement over what existed previously but still needs much work, just wanted a better camera app.</text></comment>