The Ubuntu SDK is your full-featured integrated development environment (based on QtCreator) for writing Ubuntu/Ubuntu Touch apps (QML or HTML5)
Useful links:
- Installing the SDK
- QML apps
- HTML5 apps
Questions tagged [ubuntu-sdk]
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Building Full Perl Support in Ubuntu SDK
I am running Ubuntu v14.04, and after some effort, I have successfully installed the Ubuntu SDK.
I need to use Perl + QML/Qt to develop a (potentially large) number of fully-functional apps through the Ubuntu SDK, which can then run "convergently"…
Will Braswell
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What are Click packages?
I noticed that Ubuntu SDK recently had some updates and it installed a program named "Click". I would like to know what they are and how to use them.
Also, would they make Debian packaging easier?
Archisman Panigrahi
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(QML) Flickable not working as supposed
So, while building an Ubuntu app I needed to use flickable for scrolling, so now I have code of the form
Page{
...
Flickable {
anchors.fill: parent
content.height: element1.height + element2.height ...
...
}
}
When I run it on my…
user2563892
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How to lock ubuntu device orientation in portrait or landscape from user input?
I am working on a reader app to be used on Ubuntu-Touch. When reading books from the app it would be a helpful feature to lock the orientation in either portrait or landscape. This would be useful when reading in bed sideways.
I've tried to use…
Randy_O
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Is it possible to use Python with the Ubuntu SDK?
David Planella wrote in his answer to a question I posted that:
...the recommended way to develop apps for Ubuntu is the Ubuntu SDK.
So I installed it, but looks like the supported programming language is C++. Does it mean I will need to know C++…
Zignd
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How to set app icon in the .desktop file of an Ubuntu Touch application?
I am learning the Ubuntu SDK, and I have make an new HTML5 Touch UI project with Qt Creator.
The project folder has an .desktop file. I then added an launcher.png to my project's folder.
Here is my .desktop file:
[Desktop…
Voidcode
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How can I add custom dependencies to Click packages
My Ubuntu touch application requires a package called libqt5network5 to run. (This is installable via APT.)
Once I build the Click Package from Ubuntu SDK and install, it does not check for the libqt5network5 dependency.
I wish to know how to add…
Naveen
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How do you check if a property is undefined in qml?
How do you check if a property is undefined in qml?
This is what I am trying to do:
Button {
id: myButton
text: if (text === "undefined"){"default text"}
}
Anon
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How to change index in OptionSelector immediately (without animation)?
In my app, I use an OptionSelector to choose from a list of bike stations. I also have a map component with placemarkers for each station.
When I tap a placemarker, it also changes the OptionSelector to the index of the corresponding station, as…
Aaron Hastings
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How do I dynamically add tab to tabs?
I am trying to add a new tab to the tabs component with the code below.
When running there is no error reported but no additional tabs are show.
I have tried using both tabs and tabs.__tabsModel as the parent but no additional tabs are show.
import…
Morchuboo
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How can I use emacs instead of Ubuntu SDK to write Ubuntu Touch Apps?
I want to use emacs and console tools instead of Ubuntu SDK to edit and debug my projects.
Where can I learn about doing that?
lumenwrites
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Can a single Ubuntu SDK target touch and desktop with separate layouts?
I know that touch apps will run on the desktop with the same UI, but I was wondering if it will be possible for a single Ubuntu SDK app to have a multi-window UI with desktop style UI elements when running in desktop mode, while also providing a…
sjmulder
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How can I update the Ubuntu SDK preview from the Qt 5 Beta PPA to the Qt 5 Release PPA
When the Ubuntu SDK preview was announced on the 2nd of January, it was based on the Qt 5 Beta release (as Qt 5 had not yet been released and packaged for Ubuntu). At some point, the Qt 5 release was packaged on a separate PPA and the Ubuntu SDK…
David Planella
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How to deploy an Ubuntu touch application for other GNU/Linux distributions?
My situation:
I have created an Ubuntu touch application using Ubuntu SDK, in QML & C++.
The application uses Ubuntu UI Toolkit
(Ubuntu.Components 0.1)
I want the application to run in other GNU/Linux distributions as well.
How to deploy this…
Naveen
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How do you round numbers in qml to two decimal places?
I have these ridiculously long real numbers such as 33.088117576394794, and I am trying to convert them to doubles (Two decimal places). So in this case, I want 33.09.
How do you do this in QML?
Anon
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