Should KDE provide apps for Horizon OS?

[Aleix Pol]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 4:09 PM Loren Burkholder
<computersemiexpert at outlook.com> wrote:
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> In the world of VR, Meta is currently the dominant force, given its headsets are both capable and affordable. Since their Horizon OS is built on top of Android, it is capable of running normal Android apps as flat windows. However, due to Big Tech Politics™, Google has refused to make the Play Store available on Horizon OS, instead reserving it for their own upcoming Android XR. The good news is that Meta recently opened their app store to not require any sort of subjective content review[0], so any Android app can theoretically be added to the Horizon store. I've sideloaded KDE Connect to my own Quest and found it to be useful, especially for file transfer. What is the community opinion on uploading KDE Connect to the Horizon store?
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> Cheers,
> Loren Burkholder
>
> [0]: https://www.uploadvr.com/quest-app-lab-merged-into-meta-horizon-store/

We already offer KDE Connect on a number of proprietary Android stores
like Google Play and Huawei's. It would be useful if someone can do
some of the preparation and QA work there as well as refreshing the
binaries when a new stable update is released.

Please reach out on the matrix channel and we'll see how to do it properly.

@Simon yes, we are building KDE Connect on the CI now, example:
https://invent.kde.org/network/kdeconnect-android/-/commit/b7f3a7d86871ab28b22985d882809857325a42ea/pipelines?ref=master

Best,
Aleix