Plasma/Mobile/Roadmap

This page describes the plans to develop Plasma Mobile from a high-level. Day-to-day development and planning is done in KDE's Phabricator system.

Milestones

Plasma Mobile 0.1 "Prototype" (finished)

The Plasma Mobile prototype shows the viability of Plasma on a handheld device. The prototype boots a reference device, is able to make phone calls, select contacts from an address book and contains partly functional outlook on how handset running Plasma could look like. <embedvideo service="youtube">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auuQA0Q8qpM</embedvideo> Plasma Mobile 0.1 provides:

• Phone stack definition (libhybris if necessary, Frameworks 5 and Plasma on top)
• Basic proof-of-concept Plasma Shell providing the handset UI, including:
  • App launcher
  • Draggable top panel
  • Task switcher
  • Settings application
  • Proof-of-concept set of apps

Plasma Mobile 1.0 "Feature Phone" (WIP)

Plasma Mobile 1.0 provides an end-user ready experience with a minimal, useful feature set. This includes the underlying OS and plumbing layers, a workspace to launch and manage apps, some basic system functions to set up the network, show connection status, etc. Functions that a 1.0 should provide:

• Answering and initiating phone calls
• Contacts / Address book
• Sending and receiving SMS, possibly other IM service as SMS is pretty old fashioned
• Input: good virtual keyboard with several layouts support, localization and right-to-left layouts support
• Hardware functions:
  • Volume control
  • Network control (wifi and Mobile), incl. airplane mode
• Basic settings
  • Language / Locale
  • Clock / Timezone
  • Ringtone / Notification sounds / Do-not-disturb
  • Mobile network functions and settings
    • APN
    • Roaming
    • Tethering
    • Data Limits
• Web browser with basic functions (possibly 3rd party)
• SDK: A software development kit allowing to hack on Plasma Mobile core and 3rd party apps
• Appstore, installing, updating and removing apps
• Photo / Video camera: allows recording photos and videos
• Image / photo gallery
• Video player

See Plasma Mobile 1.0 workboard.

Plasma Mobile 2.0 "Basic Smartphone"

Plasma Mobile 2.0 builds upon the basic functionality provided in 1.0, and provides more functions:

• Personal Information Management
  • Email reading and sending
  • Calendar
  • Reminders
• Multimedia
  • Listening to audio / music
  • Accessing files through MTP (or equivalent protocol)
• Applications ecosystem

See Plasma Mobile 2.0 workboard.

Plasma Mobile 3.0 "Featured Smartphone"

• Cloud storage integration
• Games
• Cool apps
• working Android emulation