Overview

tiles-session is a simple graphical session with basic window management functionality.

Usage

Build with tiles-session

Make sure //src/ui/bin/tiles-session to your gn build args, e.g:

fx set <product>.<board> --with //src/ui/bin/tiles-session

Launch tiles-session

ffx session launch fuchsia-pkg://fuchsia.com/tiles-session#meta/tiles-session.cm

Add your view

For example:

ffx session add fuchsia-pkg://fuchsia.com/flatland-examples#meta/flatland-view-provider.cm

Current limitations

TODO(https://fxbug.dev/42169911): update the following as features are added, and delete when fully-featured. Only one view is supported. Adding an additional view replaces the existing one.

Use cases

tile-session fills a few roles in the Fuchsia ecosystem:

• educational: explain workings of a simple yet fully-functional session
• testing: reliable basis for integration tests
• development: support development by UI teams:
  • inspect
  • expose APIs for tests to query various conditions