A springboard-inspired compositor for mobile wayland phones.
- Rust 88.6%
- Nix 9%
- Shell 2.2%
- Just 0.2%
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Springchick
A Wayland compositor for Linux phones, written in Rust with Smithay and Skia
The Authorative home for this repo is https://code.bas.es/marcus/springchick/ - Github is a mirror to allow easier contributions and visibility.
IMPORTANT: This project is made using LLM assist, however, it is not a low effort project, and I don't consider it to be slop. It is in early development. I'm daily driving it on my fairphone 5 running nixos. See dmsmobile or my flake.
- Springchick gets a lot of inspiration from iOS' springboard shell, and will be quite familiar to iPhone users.
- Implements a single finger user interface with smooth animation and live updates of all cards across transitions.
- Home manager with paging and reordering/hiding.
- Pull down to search
- dbus based rotation in fullscreen apps like media players and games.
- Keyboard shortcuts with hardware key mapping including long press.
- Automatic keyboard pop up integration with wvkbd
- External display support (mirroring only)
- Supports most required wayland protocols including ones for screen recording/shots/clipboard++
- Currently mostly tested on Nixos, I recommend using the provided flake on nixos phones. I intend to provide a postmarketos repo soon.
Screenshots
On the roadmap
- Even smoother animations.
- More actions supported for hardware key mapping
- Startup apps on boot (currently best implemented through systemd user services)
- Optional rotation for UI in addition to the current full screen rotation.