Ubuntu sdk applications should be easily built and tested

[Nicholas Skaggs]

When developing a ubuntu sdk application using qtcreator, it should be easy to deploy your application to a phablet device or the emulator and execute tests. Currently qtcreator has a shortcut, ctrl+f12 that partially does this. In addition, the conversion to cmake and the creation of click-buddy also partially allows this.

What is needed is to finish the work needed for click-buddy to enable provisioning and testing for phablet devices and emulators, and for this work to be integrated into qtcreator to allow a developer to easily invoke building a click package and testing it.

There are a couple bugs that inform this one:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qtcreator-plugin-ubuntu/+bug/1280781
https://bugs.launchpad.net/phablet-tools/+bug/1269163

Once complete, cmake will be required, but the template for qtcreator for a new ubuntu application utilizes cmake already. We should ensure this template complies with the workflow via click-buddu. Click-buddy will also be usable from the command line as well.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Zoltan Balogh (bzoltan)]

In the Ubuntu SDK there is a Publish tab where the developer can create and verify click package from the edited/active project with a single click.

We are working on the integration of the present Run-Debug-Build prcess to the QtC's own processes. So in the future there will not be Ctrl+F12 and other hustle, just Run or Build.

The click-budy is a great tool for the continuous integration, but I do not think it is a bug that in the last year (when click-body did not exist) the Ubuntu SDK was using other way to offer packaging features.

[Nicholas Skaggs (nskaggs)]

Repeating my comments on IRC for the report;

I mention click-buddy in the bug report, but I don't care what tool or tools are used to make this happen. What I know is that there needs to be an easy way to build a package (which qtcreator now does), and then push that package to the phone or emulator and run tests. It's the second part I want to ensure happens asap in qtcreator. I just want a UI for it, and for it to work, I don't care about the specific implementation in that regard.

Click-buddy is working on meeting the command line use case; however, most developers will be in qtcreator and using there project via the IDE. We need to ensure they have a smooth experience, however it is implemented.

Do you understand what I am requesting? I need to be able to easily deploy and test my code via qtcreator as a developer. Can you share your plans to allow for this functionality?

From your comment about the run and build, it sounds like you are planning to include what I am asking; can you share more?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package phablet-tools - 1.0+14.04.20140227.1-0ubuntu1

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phablet-tools (1.0+14.04.20140227.1-0ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=low

  [ Sergio Schvezov ]
  * Recommend ubuntu-device-flash
  * Adding initial cross build support for click-buddy (LP: #1281234)
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