Cassidy’s Blog
App Development
Tips and tools for app developers
Publish Your Godot Engine Game to Flathub Wed, Dec 11, 2024
Reach millions of users on the Linux app store with Flatpak
If you follow me on the fediverse (@cassidy@blaede.family), you may have seen me recently gushing about ROTA, a video game I recently discovered. Besides…
elementary OS 6 Beta Available Today Fri, Apr 30, 2021
What’s a beta, and what’s new for developers?
Developers and testers, it’s the day you’ve been waiting for: elementary OS 6 Beta is available now! We first started talking publicly about elementary…
Developer Tips: GitHub Workflow Mon, Apr 8, 2019
Best practices to make development faster and easier
AppCenter leans heavily into the GitHub-based workflow for developers, ensuring that elementary isn’t recreating the wheel. However, that also means that many handy aspects…
Developer Tips: Updating Your Apps for Juno Thu, Jul 19, 2018
Be ready to debut alongside elementary OS 5
Now that the developer previews for Juno beta1 and beta2 are out, it’s prime time for app developers to get their apps ready. In…
Developer Tips: Backgrounding & System Integration Tue, May 15, 2018
Best practices for making your app a first-class citizen
How your app should integrate with elementary OS and run in the background can be a tricky topic; other platforms have different conventions like…
Developer Tips: Branding Your App Wed, Jan 31, 2018
How to give your app a unique but native look
With 75+ native GTK3 apps, AppCenter continues to fill out with quality experiences from several dozen developers. Many have begun to build their own…
Introducing New AppCenter Categories Wed, Jan 17, 2018
Better for both users and developers
We’ve been hard at work to refresh the categories on the AppCenter home page. This refresh includes some new categories plus some changes to…
Scratch is now elementary Code Tue, Jan 2, 2018
More than a name change
In 2011, elementary debuted our own “text editor.” We’ve shipped it in elementary OS ever since as Scratch, the default app for handling any…
Developer Tips: Making a Killer AppCenter Listing Fri, Aug 25, 2017
Five ways to make your app stand out
As the number of apps in AppCenter grows, it’s becoming increasingly important for your app’s listing to stand out. It’s no longer sufficient to…
Cleaning Up App Codenames Fri, Jul 21, 2017
GitHub and RDNN make for a more sane scheme
We’re making some changes to our app codenames (and how we refer to apps) to clean up a few mismatched schemes. This gets a…
Switching from macOS: Developer Environment Thu, Nov 3, 2016
Part 2 of a 5-part series
The previous piece covered The Basics. I am a professional web developer working on multiple continuously delivered node apps on GitHub, working alongside a…