Why should developers still invest in native Sailfish OS apps in 2025?

[Fuchur84]

Hi Shosholoza,

there is the Jolla store (which you can not access without a SFOS device), but there are Open Repos and Chum of cause too, which have web interfaces. Those are native apps too and likely there are even more apps on those two than on the Jolla Store itself:

• https://openrepos.net/
• https://sailfishos-chum.github.io/

Hope that helps a little to see how many there are and of cause you might like to check Chum itself. It is considered a big help for developers.

Regarding Qt5: There is a QT6 possibility too, which might be interesting for you then:

Packaging Qt6 (6.7.2) for Sailfish OS

Over the last few weeks, myself and @rinigus have been working on packaging Qt6 (6.7.2) for Sailfish OS We are now at a state where the packages are usable to developers to build applications against. Packages are currnetly in an OBS repo [1], but will in time be moved to the SailfishOS:Chum repo to be easily available to all. The full list of packages is listed in this tracking issue [1], but in summary, most of Qt6 and Kf6 is available to use. The motivation for this on my side was purely …

Best regards
*Fuchur*