Hello Jolla Enthusiasts. As you may know, a stopwatch application for Jolla’s Sailfish OS has been recently developed, called intuitively StopWatch. Among others, it enables the users to set an internal timer with a rest time option, has countdown support, it remembers the previous times, the timer does not stop when the phone goes to sleep and has support for calculation of the difference between consecutive laps.
The latest version available is StopWatch 1.3.1, which has been recently released. In this article I will show you how to install StopWatch 1.3.1 on Jolla’s Sailfish OS.
There are two installation methods, one from the GUI and one from the command line interface. I like the terminal method better, because I find it easier to update the apps, this was. And because I am a CLI Linux maniac. : )
Installation method 1: From the GUI.
Since StopWatch is available via OpenRepos.net, you can easily download the app and install it directly from the file manager.
Download StopWatch
Installation method 2: In the geek way, via zypper.
Since Sailfish OS is pure openSUSE, you have to switch to developer mode, install zypper, add the repository and key, update the system and install StopWatch app. Like this:
# pkcon install zypper
# zypper ar -f http://sailfish.openrepos.net/mikel83/personal-main.repo
# rpm --import http://sailfish.openrepos.net/openrepos.key
# zypper refresh
# zypper install harbour-stopwatch
To uninstall Stopwatch, you have to install zypper (if you haven’t installed it already) and uninstall the app via zypper :
# pkcon install zypper
# zypper remove harbour-stopwatch
For those who don’t know yet, Jolla is a project developed by former Nokia employees. The first Jolla smartphone is running on Sailfish OS, a modified Megoo Linux system, which is Android compatible, uses Wayland as the default display server , uses Nokia N9′s Maliit touchscreen keyboard and comes with interchangeable covers, allowing the users to easily switch them, in order to change the color/model of the phone and comes with impressive hardware specifications.
While apps with native Sailfish OS support can be installed via the Jolla Store and OpenRepos.net, Android apps can be installed via the same Jolla Store, or via F-Droid, Yandex Store, Amazon App Store, Aptoide and 1Mobile Android Market.