How to create a new app in Endless.
Is there any separate development environment available
Hi,
We don’t have a separate development environment available right now. Currently, the best way to create a new app in Endless from scratch is to write an application that works on the GNOME platform, and package it using Flatpak. These will run on Endless OS. For more information about developing for GNOME, check here: https://developer.gnome.org/
However, there is a problem: publishing your app. At the moment, even if you have written an app, there is no way to publish it in our app center. Your best bet would be to contact us and tell us why you think it would make a good addition to Endless OS, but I couldn’t make any guarantees. 
In the future, we would like to make our app center support Flatpak apps from other sources, so that publishing becomes a lot easier.
I work on the team that’s working on making it possible to develop apps specifically aimed at Endless OS. We have recently open-sourced some of our libraries for building apps that work on top of GNOME. There is not much documentation or examples yet so you can only use them if you are very adventurous 
but making it possible for other people to use them to build apps is part of what I’ll be working on in the coming while.
Check them out at our Github page: https://github.com/endlessm
- eos-sdk - a C library with some extra GTK widgets in it
- eos-knowledge-lib - with this library you can build apps like the offline content apps that we have in Endless OS