Make our own standalone apps on Pi 4
ryancross
This sounds very interesting, but not sure the extra effort to support this would be worth it for the product team (especially if it is at the expense of adding other features to the core software). Can people share more details about what they are envisioning, why they want to do this, and what kind of apps they have in mind??
John A Timperio
I too would like to see this mainly I would like to see in the hollow place studio or whatever you could put your little app there and then sync it over to the device and the app would run within the setup on the device itself maybe we could update the device to have a menu system that you could select through with the buttons. And a configuration so you could set it to like a kiosk mode. Maybe the default slideshow should be listed as an app. I personally have some awesome ideas for UI changing if the UI itself was updatable.
Pieter Pletinckx
TesseractCat has successfully created some apps that run on the Pi 4 based on https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/wiki/Working-on-Raspberry-Pi
These are still #Experimental but quite the achievement!
Pieter Pletinckx
Performance aside, should there be an on-device API?
Right now when you wish to display media it is my understanding that you still need to pass by the desktop's holoplay service. The service will take the calibration config and turn it into something usable. Can it be done for on-device apps or do we need a lite version of the service?
Example use case: "Alarm Clock": An app that composes quilts based on the time, a slow updating UI that contains the Digits 0 - 9 and maybe a weather background.