This blog is about KDE Connect. KDE Connect is a project to communicate across all your devices. For example, with KDE Connect you can receive your phone notifications on your desktop computer, control music playing on your desktop from your phone, or use your phone as a remote control for your desktop.

Well this is my first blog.

I've started working on KDE Connect last November. My first big features were released yesterday in KDE Connect 1.8 for Android, so cause for celebration and a blog post!

My first big feature is media notifications. KDE Connect has, since it's inception, allowed you to remotely control your music and video's. Now you can also do this with a notification, like all Android music apps do! So next time a bad song comes up, you don't need to switch to the KDE Connect app. Just click next on the notification without closing you current app. And just in case you don't like notifications popping up, there's an option to disable it.

The second big feature is album art for the media control. Since most songs belong to an album, and people put serious time into designing those album covers, it's a shame we haven't been showing those covers all this time! But wait no more: we've finally got album art in KDE Connect!

Currently, only remote album art is supported (used in e.g. Spotify). Local album art and album art in the media notifications will come in a future release of KDE Connect.