Plasma Mobile

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Plasma Mobile
Developer KDE
Stable release
6.5.4 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 9 December 2025;17 days ago (9 December 2025)
Preview release
n/a
Repository invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-mobile
Written in C++, QML
Operating system Linux
License GPLv2
Website www.plasma-mobile.org OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Plasma Mobile is a Plasma variant for smartphones. [2] [3] [4] It is currently available for the PinePhone, and supported devices for postmarketOS such as the OnePlus 6. [5]

Contents

It is shipped by several Linux distributions, such as postmarketOS and Manjaro. [6]

History

After Plasma Active sponsor Coherent Theory (under the Make·Play·Live brand) [7] [8] had given up their ambitions to release a tablet computer, [9] Blue Systems emerged as a new sponsor in 2015 and shifted the focus of Plasma's handheld work towards smartphones. [10] [11] The official announcement of the new form-factor interface was on 25 July 2015 at Akademy, accompanied by a working prototype running on a Nexus 5. [2] Pine64 began sales of their PinePhone mobile device, with the KDE Community Edition being made available as pre-orders on 1 December 2020. [12] [13]

Technology

Plasma Mobile uses KWin's Wayland session and the Qt framework. [10] Distributions shipping Plasma Mobile can choose to support Android applications through Waydroid, which runs Android in a container on the device. [14]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "KDE Plasma 6.5.4, Bugfix Release for December". 9 December 2025. Retrieved 9 December 2025.
  2. 1 2 Swapnil Bhartiya (25 July 2015). "KDE Community announces fully open source Plasma Mobile". ITworld. Archived from the original on 8 November 2015. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  3. ↑ Wallen, Jack (February 5, 2018). "Why KDE's Plasma Mobile is the ideal platform for Linux fans and developers". TechRepublic . Retrieved 2021-06-07.
  4. ↑ Eddy, Max (2021-01-28). "Break Away From Android: 7 Free Open-Source Mobile OSes to Try". PCMag . Retrieved 2021-06-07.
  5. ↑ "FAQ". www.plasma-mobile.org. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
  6. ↑ "Distributions offering Plasma Mobile" . Retrieved 17 November 2022.
  7. ↑ Byfield, Bruce. "Orchestration". Linux Magazine. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
  8. ↑ "Akademy: Plasma Active and Make Play Live". lwn.net.
  9. ↑ Larabel, Michael (2014-05-24). "Improv Open ARM Board Failure Leads To A Ton Of In-Fighting". Phoronix . Retrieved 2019-04-28.
  10. 1 2 Bhartiya, Swapnil (25 July 2015). "Sebastian Kügler: KDE's Plasma Mobile is running on Plasma 5 and Kubuntu". ITworld. Archived from the original on 27 July 2015. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  11. ↑ "Embracing Mobile". sebas' blog. Archived from the original on 30 July 2015. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  12. ↑ "PinePhone: KDE community edition". Plasma Mobile. 2020-12-01. Retrieved 2021-03-05.
  13. ↑ "Introducing the PinePhone - KDE Community edition". KDE Community. 2020-11-15. Retrieved 2021-03-05.
  14. ↑ "WayDroid brings lag-free Android app integration to the OnePlus 6/6T Linux port". TuxPhones. 24 July 2021. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
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