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Building QML Apps for Ubuntu Touch

2021-08-24 [ qml app python ]

Recently I installed Ubuntu Touch on my phone and, as with most alternative OSs, I realized that some of my most used / necessary apps weren't present.

There are a multitude123 of resources online to write apps for UT, but I kept hitting issues:

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python -> pyotherside

~/.clickable/home/ is mounted to /home/phablet in Desktop Mode.

To run pip install: A custom target is what you are looking for: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/command/addcustomtarget.html

https://pypi.org/project/pykeepass/ -> SLOW

-> try rust -> https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3/ https://aeshirey.github.io/code/2020/12/01/returning-mixed-compound-types-from-rust-with-pyo3.html -> struggle but fast:

Rust crap: 134 entries

real 0m0,231s -> export RUSTFLAGS='-C target-cpu=native' real 0m0,079s

python crap

real 0m3,111s

Rust-python-crap time python -c 'import pykeepassrs; pykeepassrs.fnprinter()' real 0m0,089s

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ python3 DONT_COMMIT.py 134 PyKeePass 8.56 PyKeePass-Rs 2.41

-> +AES phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ python3 DONT_COMMIT.py 134 PyKeePass 8.56 PyKeePass-Rs 0.36

-> try to pkg -> fail,

  1. https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/appdev/index.html ↩

  2. https://mimecar.gitbooks.io/ubuntu-touch-programming-course/content/en/ ↩

  3. https://forums.ubports.com/topic/5525/python-examples/3 ↩