14 DAY TRIAL // Barry Kauler, the creator of the Puppy Linux project, announced the release and immediate availability for download of the first point release of Quirky Linux, a sister project of the Puppy Linux operating system.
According to the release notes, Quirky Linux 7.1 is dubbed Appril and has been designed from the ground up to provide Android app developers with all the tools they need to get started in minutes and create some of the most awesome applications for the Android mobile operating system.
Being built entirely from source using the T2 build system, which is a set of Bash scripts that helps anyone compile a complete GNU/Linux distribution from sources. As such, Quirky Linux 7.1 distro is not based on any other existing Linux kernel-based operating system.
The Appril release of Quirky Linux includes the Android SDK (Software Development Kit), Android Studio, App Inventor, Oracle JDK (Java Development Kit), and LiveCode tools, as well as all of their dependencies, together with the JWM (Joe's Window Manager) and ROX, providing one of the lightest environments for Android app developers.
"The intention is to have out-of-the-box, just-click-and-get-going Android app development, catering for total non-programmers with App Inventor, through intermediate with LiveCode, to hard-core coders with Android Studio," says Barry Kauler, Puppy Linux creator.
The App Inventor now runs locally
Probably the most important feature of the Quirky Linux 7.1 (Appril) release is that the App Inventor tool now runs locally. Again, users are being informed that the Quirky Linux 7.1 release contains all development tools that an Android app developer needs, everything you can think of, which makes it the best compiling environment for Linux devs.
Download Quirky Linux 7.1 (Appril) right now from Softpedia, where you will find archived IMG and USBFS images of approximately 1GB in size each, engineered to support 32-bit (x86) hardware architectures.