[Sugar-devel] [Announcement] Sugarizer v0.8 is available for your device

Walter Bender walter.bender at gmail.com
Fri Jan 6 08:22:58 EST 2017


Lionel,

Congrats.

Quick question: What is the procedure for an app developer to get a new
version into your distro? Turtle Blocks has made many advances since the
version you package.

regards.

-walter

On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 3:02 AM, Lionel Laské <lionel.laske at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> I'm proud to announce the eighth version (0.8) of Sugarizer, a taste of
> Sugar for any device.
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>
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> http://sugarizer.org
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> Main features in this new version:
>
>    - Speak activity: The famous Sugar Speak activity: anything you type
>    will be spoken aloud using the speech synthesizer.
>    - Moon activity: Another famous Sugar activity. A Moon phase viewer,
>    includes Lunar phase information and eclipse data.
>    - Video Viewer activity: A generic video viewer, explore a predefined
>    libraries (Khan Academy, Canopé) or import your own library and share it
>    with others in the Journal.
>    - Shared Notes activity: A shared board where you could stick Post-It
>    notes and share it in real time with others using presence.
>    - Updated Etoys activity: Latest version of Etoys is now included in
>    the Sugarizer package.
>    - Windows 10:  Sugarizer is now available in the Windows Store [1]. So
>    if you've got a PC on Windows, Sugarizer is one click long from you.
>    - Performance improvement: script optimization and lazy loading of
>    data had dramatically improve performance in all activities.
>    - Better touch support: a new scrollable home view and a better
>    handling of long touch on touch screens of any size.
>    - Application size reduction: Sugarizer application size is now under
>    50Mb.
>    - Portuguese localization: a new language support for our friends from
>    Portugal and Brazil,
>    - SugarLabs inside: Sugarizer source code is now in SugarLabs
>    repository [8].
>
>
>
> New in Sugarizer 0.8 for Android is "Sugarizer OS". Sugarizer OS is a way
> to use Sugarizer as your Android Launcher on the device. So you could have
> the same experience with Sugarizer on your tablet/smartphone that you've
> got with Sugar on the XO laptop. More specifically, Sugarizer OS features
> are:
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>    - Directly boot the device on Sugarizer home view (no more Android
>    stuff)
>    - Full features and activities of Sugarizer (Sugarizer and Sugarizer
>    OS share the same code)
>    - Include both Sugarizer activities and Android applications in your
>    home view using favorites feature
>    - Launch Android applications from Sugarizer home view
>    - Journal will trace both Sugarizer and Android application launch
>    - Launch Android settings from the Sugarizer settings dialog
>    - Manage WiFi connection from the Sugarizer neighborhood view (like in
>    Sugar)
>
>
>
> With Sugarizer OS, Sugar on Android is now a reality: enjoy the experience
> and spread the world with Sugarizer !
>
>
>
> Sugarizer 0.8 is available on: Windows Store [1], Google Play [2], Amazon
> Store [3], Apple Store [4], Chrome Web Store [5] and F-droid [6].
>
> Sugarizer OS for Android is available in beta here [7].
>
>
>
>                Lionel.
>
>
>
> P.S.: Special thanks for their contribution on this version to Vishal
> Batchu (Speak activity), Shirsh Zibbu (Moon activity), Bert Freudenberg
> (Etoys activity), Jeremie Amsellem (Sugarizer OS), Michaël Ohayon
> (Sugarizer OS), Afmachado (Portugueuse Translation), Naofum (Japanese
> Translation), Christoph Derndorfer (German Translation),  Piotr Antosz
> (Polish Translation), Shubham Jaiswal (Arabic Translation), Samson Goddy
> (Igbo Yoruba Translation), Tymon P.Radzik (TankOp localization), Matías
> Martínez (Get Things Done, Chat Prototype and Markdown activity
> localization) - 4 students from Google Summer of Code and 5 students from
> Google Code In !
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> [1] https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9nblggh4r782
>
> [2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.olpc_
> france.sugarizer
>
> [3] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NKK7PZA
>
> [4] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sugarizer/id978495303
>
> [5] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sugarizer/
> omfgclgehghdlloggibhgicnlldjiboo
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> [6] https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.olpc_france.sugarizer
>
> [7] http://sugarizer.org/sugarizeros-beta.apk
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> [8] https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugarizer
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>
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Walter Bender
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