snapcraft.io | Ubuntu

Igor Ljubuncic
25 February 2022

Three ways to package your Electron apps as snaps

Article Ubuntu

Software comes in many shapes and forms. One of the popular cross-platform, cross-architecture frameworks for building and distributing applications in Electron, which combines the Chromium rendering engine and the Node.js runtime. This makes Electron-based applications relatively easy to create. If you want to deploy...

Igor Ljubuncic
25 February 2022

Igor Ljubuncic
8 February 2022

How Snapcraft helps developers map out their application dependencies and efficiently build snaps

Article Ubuntu

One of the core concepts of snaps is cross-distro compatibility. Developers can build their snaps once, and they should run well on more than 40 different Linux distros. But how does one take care of all the required runtime dependencies? By providing them inside the snap, as part of the bundle. In the snap ecosystem,

Igor Ljubuncic
8 February 2022

Igor Ljubuncic
21 January 2022

Let’s build a snap together – a complex snapcraft.yaml walkthrough

Article Ubuntu

It has been a while since we talked about how to build snaps. In the past, we went through a number of detailed examples, focused on different programming languages and the use of various useful components that can be declared in snapcraft.yaml, like extensions, stage packages, layouts, and more. Today, we want to give you

Igor Ljubuncic
21 January 2022

Igor Ljubuncic
7 January 2022

The Future of Snapcraft

Article Ubuntu

System hysteresis, when applied to software, can roughly be defined as an overall lag between desired implementation of code and actual implementation of said code. Ideally, this delay should be minimal, and programmers would be able to make instantaneous changes and improvements to their applications. In reality,...

Igor Ljubuncic
7 January 2022

Igor Ljubuncic
17 December 2021

Snapcrafters – One for all, all for one

Article Ubuntu

In mid-2017, a small group of techies banded together and formed a team that would specialize in creating community-supported snaps of applications for which there was or would be no upstream support. This team called itself: Snapcrafters. Over time, it slowly, gradually grew, attracting more people and bringing yet...

Igor Ljubuncic
17 December 2021

Igor Ljubuncic
3 December 2021

Ubuntu Frame – A picture is worth a thousand snaps

Article Internet of Things

The development of graphical applications intended for use on IoT devices isn’t trivial. The complexity goes beyond the usual challenges that exist in the classic desktop and server domains. One, the IoT world is much less mature. Two, developers need to take into consideration various edge cases that do not apply to...

Igor Ljubuncic
3 December 2021

Igor Ljubuncic
26 November 2021

Craft Parts – Reusable code, Snapcraft style

Article Ubuntu

Throughout the ages, humans have always used simpler tools and materials to create more complex ones. Wood and stone for smelting bronze and iron; iron to create steel; vacuum tubes to create logical gates; logical gates to create advanced arithmetic engines, and so on. Modern software is no different. With Snapcraft in...

Igor Ljubuncic
26 November 2021

Holly Hall
19 November 2021

Top 10 apps to boost your productivity

Article Apps

Winter is rolling in (for those in the Northern Hemisphere at least). Long summer evenings are on hold for now. In these colder months, it can be difficult to get back into work and feel efficient. But whether you are feeling tired, unorganised, or demotivated, there may be an application here to help you refocus

Holly Hall
19 November 2021

Igor Ljubuncic
12 November 2021

Snapcraft offline mode – Build snaps while saving data

Article Ubuntu

As part of the snap creation cycle, the Snapcraft tool creates isolated build instances inside which all of the necessary work – download of sources, compilation, packaging, etc. – is done in a safe manner, without touching the host system. While there are many advantages to the use of the virtual machines (via Multipass) or

Igor Ljubuncic
12 November 2021

Igor Ljubuncic
20 October 2021

Snapcraft experimental login – new, secure Web-based authentication method

Article Ubuntu

Some Snapcraft operations mandate that users identify themselves. For example, if you want to push your snap to the Snap Store, you need to login on the command line. The process relies on the internal login mechanism built into Snapcraft. A preview functionality for a new Web-based authentication flow is available as...

Igor Ljubuncic
20 October 2021

Igor Ljubuncic
8 October 2021

How to make snaps faster

Article Ubuntu

A great user experience is (or at least, should be) an integral part of any software that involves user interaction. On the desktop, this starts with the application launch, and continues through the session. The overall time to completion of tasks as well as interactive responsiveness are a core element in this...

Igor Ljubuncic
8 October 2021

Canonical
7 October 2021

Why your snap’s name, description, summary may have been changed, and what we’re doing about it

Article Ubuntu

As you may be aware, last month, a few users reported seeing some of their snaps’ metadata (description, name, summary) being overwritten by what seemed to be old information. On closer inspection, this affected snaps for which the authors had modified the metadata via the Web publisher interface, and the metadata had...

Canonical
7 October 2021

Holly Hall
1 October 2021

What is an IoT marketplace?

Article Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem is expanding at a rapid rate, with the number of devices growing every year. The increase in physical hardware being manufactured multiplies the amount of software needed to perform various functions on new platforms. There are a range of IoT use cases, including voice-controlling...

Holly Hall
1 October 2021

Igor Ljubuncic
16 September 2021

Snap Performance Skunk Works – Ensuring speed and consistency for snaps

Article Ubuntu

Snaps are used on desktop machines, servers and IoT devices. However, it’s the first group that draws the most attention and scrutiny. Due to the graphic nature of desktop applications, users are often more attuned to potential problems and issues that may arise in the desktop space than with command-line tools or...

Igor Ljubuncic
16 September 2021

Blog posts tagged "snapcraft.io"

Blog posts tagged
"snapcraft.io"