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
• 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
• 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

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:

• Email reading and sending
• Application management (installation, updating