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Blog posts tagged
"snapcraft.io"


Igor Ljubuncic
4 July 2019

Faster snap development – additional tips and tricks

Desktop Article

Recently, we published several blog posts, aimed at helping developers enjoy a smoother, faster, more streamlined experience creating snaps. We discussed the tools and tricks you can employ in snapcraft to accelerate the speed at which you iterate on your builds. We want to continue the work presented in the Make your snap development fas ...


Igor Ljubuncic
27 June 2019

Development tips and tricks – snap try and snapcraft pack

Desktop Article

Over the past several months, we have shared with you several articles and tutorials showing how to accelerate application development so that a typically demanding, time-consuming process becomes an easier, faster and more fun one. Today, we’d like to introduce some additional tips and tricks. Namely, we want to talk about elegant ways y ...


Igor Ljubuncic
20 June 2019

Parallel installs – test and run multiple instances of snaps

Desktop Article

In Linux, testing software is both easy and difficult at the same time. While the repository channels offer great availability to software, you can typically only install a single instance of an application. If you want to test multiple instances, you will most likely need to configure the remainder yourself. With snaps, this is a ...


Alan Pope
19 June 2019

Fresh snaps for May 2019

Ubuntu Desktop

A little later than usual, we’ve collected some of the snaps which crossed our “desk” (Twitter feed) during May 2019. Once again, we bring you a suite of diverse applications published in the Snap Store. Take a look down the list, and discover something new today. Cloudmonkey (cmk) is a CLI and interactive shell that ...


Canonical
13 June 2019

Customisable for the enterprise: the next-generation of drones

Internet of Things Article

Drones, and their wide-ranging uses, have been a constant topic of conversation for some years now, but we’re only just beginning to move away from the hypothetical and into reality. The FAA estimates that there will be 2 million drones in the United States alone in 2019, as adoption within the likes of distribution, construction, ...


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 ...


Igor Ljubuncic
16 May 2019

Introduction to snapcraft

Desktop Article

First steps are always hard, especially in technology. Most of the time, you need a primer, just the right dose of knowledge, to get started with a platform. This tutorial and upcoming sequels are designed to provide developers with simple, clear and effective tips and tricks on how to build and publish their applications as ...


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. ...