Links

• Launchpad project

• Launchpad team

• Style guide (from Ubuntu Manual project)

Workspace for Manual Outline

Target Audience: This manual is aimed at people with development skills but who do not know the best way to build and release applications for the Ubuntu platform. The guide explains how to do 'opportunistic development' on Ubuntu and will make opinionated choices, explaining the best practices for development on Ubuntu. It is not a reference book but rather an introduction to the high-value, best parts of the Ubuntu platform, such as Quickly, desktopcouch, application indicators, and so on.

Table of Contents Draft - Ubuntu Application Development

1. Introduction and 'Quickly' build an application
2. Glade for UI building
3. Coding with Widgets
   • Creating widgets in code
   • connecting to signals
4. Media - Displays and Controls
   • gstreamer
5. Indicators to inform users
   • appindicators and windicators
6. Creating and using Dialogs
7. Using preferences
8. Tools - using Launchpad to manage your project
   • Version control with BZR
9. Persisting Data
   • The easy way: desktopcouch
   • reading/writing text files
   • writing binary files
10. Distributing your application with Users

    • Quickly release + ppas + apt:// +

    • Getting it ready for the software center

Optional Topics(if there is time and an author to get it written)

1. Online components integration(scraping web sites and reading APIs)
2. Ubuntu One - Publishing and Sharing data (optional)
3. Good Application Design (optional)

Assignments

||8. Persistent data ||Stuart Langridge||When to use desktopcouch; Creating databases, Using records, Using views, map/reduce, Using CouchGrid, * The easy way: desktopcouch

• reading/writing text files

• writing binary files||?||?||BaL||?||