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Blog posts tagged
"snapcraft"

Igor Ljubuncic
6 June 2019

Snapcraft confinement & interfaces

Desktop Article

Snaps. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the OSS Snapcraft. Its continuing mission, to provide snap users with simple, clear and effective tips and tricks on how to build and publish their applications. In this tutorial, we are going to talk about confinement and interfaces – how to restrict what your snaps can ...

Igor Ljubuncic
23 May 2019

Snapcraft parts & plugins

Desktop Article

Last week, we published Introduction to snapcraft, a tutorial that provided a detailed overview of the snap build process. We touched on the concepts like snap ecosystem components, snapcraft command line, snapcraft.yaml syntax, and more. We’d like to expand on the first lesson, and today, we are going to talk about parts and plugins, use ...

Peter Mahnke
19 May 2019

Design and Web team summary – 10 May 2019

Ubuntu Design

It was another busy iteration for the web and design team, trying to get a lot of work wrapped up before we head off to Lyon, France for our 19.10 Roadmap cycle kick-off. ...

Alan Pope
11 May 2019

Publish Your Unity Games in the Snap Store

Ubuntu Article

We often feature and promote applications and games in the Snap Store and via our social media channels. Perhaps unsurprisingly, games are popular among our followers, and our users. There are a few great games already in the Snap Store, but there’s always room for more! Snap lends itself well to packaging and distributing free ...

Martin Wimpress
10 May 2019

Fresh snaps for April 2019

Desktop Article

April was another exciting month for the Snapcraft team with Microsoft releasing Visual Studio Code as a snap. As usual, we had hundreds of other new apps come to the snap store and here are a few of our favourites. MiniZinc is a free and open-source constraint modeling language. Model constraint satisfaction and optimization problems ...

Sarah Dickinson
8 May 2019

Shared values of Travis CI and snaps enhance integration confidence for developers

Desktop Article

Travis CI is a hosted, distributed continuous integration (CI) service used to build and test software projects hosted on GitHub, and free for anyone working on open source projects. Often regarded as the home of open source testing, Travis CI enables developers to automate their build without the need to set up their own servers. ...

Martin Wimpress
22 March 2019

Snapcraft Summit Montreal

Cloud and server Article

Following previous events in New York, Seattle, and London, the fourth Snapcraft Summit is taking place in Montreal, Canada from June 11th to 13th 2019. We have partnered with Travis CI this time and also expanded the scope of the event to three tracks. Snapcraft Summit Snapcraft is the universal app store for Linux that ...

Peter Mahnke
20 March 2019

Design and Web team summary – 15 March 2019

Cloud and server Design

This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web & design team at Canonical. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work. Web team Homepage takeovers This iteration we designed and built four takeovers for our home pages including: The German version of compliance webinar The German version of AI/ML webinar A ...

Martin Wimpress
9 March 2019

Fresh KDE snaps for February 2019

Desktop Article

During February 2019 we celebrated another fine Plasma release with our friends at KDE by showcasing a month of KDE snaps on the Snapcraft Twitter and other social accounts. The KDE developers have done amazing work to create an SDK that simplifies making snaps of KDE applications and they also publish a common KDE framework ...

Igor Ljubuncic
7 March 2019

How to create snapshots of your snaps

Desktop Article

Data backups are arguably the most important part of one’s software setup. While many scenarios fall into the realm of if, data loss belongs in the when domain. Over time, every one of us will experience some kind of hardware failure, be it an optical disk, a hard disk or a lost phone. It is ...

Canonical
6 March 2019

Infographic: Snapcraft for developers

Cloud and server Article

At the end of last year, we shared an infographic highlighting the adoption of snaps by users for their desktop, server or IoT devices. Those snaps wouldn’t be available without the growing number of developers building them behind the scenes. But why have developers, including those from some of the world’s largest software companies, de ...

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