Hi, This unfortunately has come up quite a few times before. There's no "bundle" way at the moment for applications other than what yocto was told to build packages for. By default these are RPM's, but you can configure it to generate .deb (Debian) type of packages. Wrt to how to get an application on the target devices the simpliest way I can think of is to have/generate your image with agl-devel distro feature and then use scp to transfer those RPMs/DEB, where you'd to reinstall it. You can use externalsrc class or devtool which can be used to source the src directory of your application. This implies that you already have a recipe for that package and you can just issue bitbake your_application_recipe. There are alternatives like you've said by using the SDK: download target images from download.automotivelinux.org and use the SDK to compile your application. But nothing will generate a package that you can install over so you'd have to literally copy binaries and libraries to the target devices using scp. Wrt to how to create layers and add recipes these are yocto/OE question and have nothing in particular with the AGL project itself. agl-demo directory contains a lot of application recipes. Easiest I can think of is to copy/paste one of those and add the recipe name to the packagegroup. You'd probably have to iterate over that a few times until you get it to work. For UI type of application you'd have to choose between Qt/Flutter/Web-HTML5 - you should be able to identify these based on their dependencies. agl-demo-platform image is the "hello world" for Qt, where you can explore and find out what application are running on it. Similar for the Flutter and Html5 images. I'm not sure that a terminal-based hello world would actually give any value. We'd need a custom hello world for our different toolkits or specific domains: telematics, instrument cluster, kuksa.val. What we can probably due here is to improve our documentation and point people to yocto/OE docs on how to create layers and recipes. This would actually be quite beneficial if any of you is interested into contributing to the AGL project, obviously once you figured it out to actually create layers and add recipes, in a more generic way. For Flutter in particular there's been some work to automate local development [1]. This basically uses the SDK to build the app and it copies everything required for the application to run on that device. It's a python script. Maybe we can have something similar for other platforms as well, but similary with the documentation bit above, it requires someone to actually work on it. [1] https://github.com/meta-flutter/workspace-automation On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 12:30:06AM -0700, davidevansg via lists.automotivelinux.org wrote: > I don't mean to hijack your post Praveen, but this general idea is > something I'm also interested in (how to create a layer, add recipes, > get an application onto the target device, etc). > > Both, the SDK page > (https://docs.automotivelinux.org/en/octopus/#04_Developer_Guides/01_Setting_Up_AGL_SDK/) > and Creating a custom recipe page > (https://docs.automotivelinux.org/en/octopus/#04_Developer_Guides/04_Creating_a_custom_recipe/) > in my opinion, doesn't really say a lot. I can make an application > with the SDK targeted for my device (RaspberryPi) but it's not clear > how I can take that application and 'bundle' it into a package, or > layer/recipes, etc to build into the filesystem. > > I really think a 'hello-world' source code/recipe example would go a > long way here, if one could be please be provided. Or if one already > exists (struggling to find one), or there's a 'good' reference one > already in Octopus, could one please be referenced? > > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#10572): https://lists.automotivelinux.org/g/agl-dev-community/message/10572 Mute This Topic: https://lists.automotivelinux.org/mt/98986039/2167316 Group Owner: agl-dev-community+owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Unsubscribe: https://lists.automotivelinux.org/g/agl-dev-community/leave/4543822/2167316/883735764/xyzzy [list-automotive-discussions82@xxxxxxxxxxx] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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