Ubuntu Core Snappy Touch GUI app kiosk

Question

I just learned about Ubuntu Core Snappy about 2 hours ago. I was very excited as I was thinking about making a stand alone java application that has a simple full screen touch GUI. This would be a single application full screen GUI. no desktop, kiosk. I found out that Ubuntu core "Snappy" is a terminal base interface as expected from a minimal distro. I would like to build a java application with a touch GUI interface with normal widgets like buttons and images maybe dropdowns and toggles. So far I have only found tutorials for making web server applications with this. Is there or will there be tutorials on how to make a stand alone touch app kiosk that runs local to the ubuntu core "snappy" os? Not a web server.

Thank you.

Answer 1

I don't think it is possible because you can't install Xorg on it. If you could, I would do the following. 1) enable automatic logging in and boot straight to command line

2) gut (keep important stuff though) the /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc file and add the following:

exec java -jar /path/to/jar.jar

3) add in the rc.local to execute startx on boot

This should boot into your jar on boot. If you can pull this off let me know, because I am working on a similar project.

Answer 2

This is indeed one of the possibilities, here's a walkthrough for setting up mir and a simple QML based application and a video

My java knowledge is limited at best to get the other part of the question answered correctly.