Meta: Creating A Mobile App

[detherminal]

Hello, I am an android developer who codes things for learning and fun. I would like to make a mobile app for Cockpit under the name "Cockpit Mobile" and I would like to publish the app on Google Play Store on my personal account. I want permission from the Cockpit team so I can work on it.

What is your ideas and can you give me permission?

[martinpitt]

Can you please be more specific what you mean with "mobile app"? Cockpit already supports mobile browsers rather well, we put quite a lot of effort into it. I.e. you can point the browser on your phone to https://some.server:9090 and you should get something useful. But I figure that's not what you mean.

An interesting project might be to have an Android app counterpart of our Cockpit Client flatpak -- i.e. bundling the web server, login page, and cockpit-ssh so that you can point it to any machine and just have SSH installed there, instead of cockpit-ws. If you have that in mind, then by all means go ahead!

FWIW, you don't need our "permission".. If you bundle Cockpit code in your app, it must be compliant with the LGPL v2, but other than that, this is free software 😁

[Victorouma57]

hello sir , am victor ouma omwanda a kenyan who has an interest in mobile app please i want a person who is an expert in doing that so that i be guided i will be willing to pay for the token of training. my email is [email protected]

[detherminal]

I am thinking of a native application for Android that has good ui and ux. Browser apps are good but not good enough to be used daily on phone. So can I make it under the name "Cockpit Mobile"? If I can I am gonna start writing a mobile app client for Cockpit. I hope I dont give up easily. 😄

[ragavpr]

I can think about some important stuff that an app can do, but the browser can't

• Persistent notifications, that can show some status which we customized to show
• Alarm notifications, say in case of any alert (high cpu / mem, high temp / etc.)

[User8395]

I'm working on one right now. It uses a WebView to embed the Cockpit UI.