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Developer(s) | KDE |
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Stable release | 5.27.7[1] ![]() |
Preview release | n/a
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Repository | invent |
Written in | C++, QML |
Operating system | Linux |
License | GPLv2 |
Website | plasma-mobile |
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]
It is shipped by several Linux distributions, such as postmarketOS and Manjaro.[6]
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] However, this stopped in 2021, with the project now being maintained by volunteers.[12]
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.[13][14]
Plasma Mobile uses KWin's Wayland session.[10] Distributions shipping Plasma Mobile can choose to support Android applications through Waydroid, which runs Android in a container on the device.[15]