# March and April 2021 round-up

DevFeed: [March and April 2021 round-up](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/march-and-april-2021-round-up-32472.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://mobile.nixos.org/news/2021-05-04-march-april-2021-round-up.html>)

Author: Samuel Dionne-Riel

Published: 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [Mobile NixOS news](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/mobile-nixos-news.md>)

Topics: [Mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mobile.md>), [Pull Request](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pull-request.md>), [Wayland](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/wayland.md>)

Tags: [mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mobile.md>), [updates](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/updates.md>), [wayland](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/wayland.md>)

## AI overview

This March-April 2021 Mobile NixOS project update reports 11 merged pull requests, progress toward Plasma Mobile and Phosh support in NixOS, and improvements for PinePhone and other devices. The period ended with support for 18 devices.

## Source excerpt

This update is the sixteenth in a series of regular updates on the state of the project. Only changes that have been accepted and merged in Mobile NixOS are chronicled here. There's always more work currently in-progress. Notable changes During the two months 11 pull requests were merged. This sounds like there's not much that has been happening, but this is only half of the story. Plasma Mobile support in NixOS A good portion of my time has been spent working on adding support for Plasma Mobile in NixOS. The pull request needs some work still, as there are issues, mainly dealing with Wayland and Plasma integration with NixOS. With that said, a draft for a Mobile NixOS demo image using Plasma Mobile was also made. It relies on the NixOS changes. After all, Mobile NixOS is a superset composed on top of NixOS. I wouldn't recommend anyone to use it at the moment, but it's not a disaster. It's the final paper cuts, the final 10% that needs 90% of the work. It's close to being done, yet far from being over. Phosh support in NixOS Some community members, starting way back in May 2020, and even before, were working on their side on adding Phosh support in NixOS @zhaofengli ran the last mile in #121226, with the initial support for Phosh in NixOS. There is also an example configuration demo system for Phosh for Mobile NixOS. Since Phosh is already being built in Nixpkgs, you can take inspiration from that example configuration and start using it at this moment. I invite you to follow through to the different pull requests, and thank the involved individuals. Device-specific changes Pinephone improvements The kernel was updated (#321) Sound support was fixed (#337) Gadget mode was fixed (#340) Ports Support for one new device was merged in this period. Pine64 PineTab (pine64-pinetab) [@zhaofengli] (#331) Bringing the total of devices to 18.