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Documentation
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Design
Learn about the design principles that make up apps on elementary OS.
Reference
Get more info about code style, reporting issues, and proposing design changes
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Loki brings a new API for Wingpanel, Launcher API support in Slingshot, new widgets like AlertView, new CSS style classes and icons, and tons more. Build feature-full apps easier than ever with Gtk 3.18 & Vala 0.34, running atop Linux 4.8
Contractor
A desktop-wide extension service that allows apps to use functionality exposed by other apps — without prior coordination.
Granite
The foundation library for elementary OS apps. Provides powerful widgets like DynamicNotebook, utilities, convenience functions, and more.
GDA
Simple, flexible database management. Supports remote and on-disk SQL databases, including SQLite. Comes with graphical and in-console SQL data browsers, a metadata extractor enabling object auto-discovery, and more.
Soup
An HTTP client/server library with synchronous and async APIs. Comes with SSL/TLS, cookies, caching, WebSockets, proxy and tunneling support, and more. Goes great with JSON-GLib.
Vala. A Modern, Fast, Open Source Language.
Familiar to anyone who's seen C#, but maintains API/ABI compatibility with C
Low memory requirements, native execution, and purpose-built for GObject
Signals, properties, generics, lambdas, assisted memory management, exception handling, type inference, async/yield & more
public class MyApp : Gtk.Application {
public MyApp () {
Object (application_id: "com.github.myteam.myapp",
flags: ApplicationFlags.FLAGS_NONE);
}
protected override void activate () {
var window = new Gtk.ApplicationWindow (this);
window.title = "MyApp";
window.set_default_size (1024, 768);
window.show_all ();
}
public static int main (string[] args) {
var app = new MyApp ();
return app.run (args);
}
}