Developer(s) | KDE |
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Stable release | 5.26.5[1] ![]() |
Preview release | 5.26.90[2] ![]() |
Repository | invent |
Written in | C++, QML |
Operating system | Linux |
License | GPLv2 |
Website | plasma-mobile |
Plasma Mobile is a Plasma variant for smartphones.[3][4][5] It is currently available for the Pinephone, and supported devices for postmarketOS such as the OnePlus 6.[6]
It is shipped by several Linux distributions, such as postmarketOS and Manjaro.[7]
After Plasma Active sponsor Coherent Theory (under the Make·Play·Live brand)[8][9] had given up their ambitions to release a tablet computer,[10] Blue Systems emerged as a new sponsor in 2015 and shifted the focus of Plasma's handheld work towards smartphones.[11][12] However, this stopped in 2021, with the project now being maintained by volunteers.[13]
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.[3]
Pine64 began sales of their PinePhone mobile device, with the KDE Community Edition being made available as pre-orders on 1 December 2020.[14][15]
Plasma Mobile uses KWin's Wayland session.[11] Distributions shipping Plasma Mobile can choose to support Android applications through Waydroid, which runs Android in a container on the device.[16]