API reference

Developer's API References

The OLPC platform includes a large number of libraries and services. This page attempts to gather links to reference works which can be used when programming the XO laptops.

Platform Requirements

• Human interaction guidelines (HIG) for Sugar activities
• Activity Bundles describes the packaging structure
• Understanding sugar code provides an overview of how Sugar interacts with activities, including startup and shutdown, useful to understand the environment in which your activity will run
• Bitfrost summary (full spec) the security system which will control activities and their interaction with the system and other users

• Software components is a somewhat old document describing the various pieces of software and libraries involved in the system.

Python Libraries

• Sugar Sugar Architecture
• OLPC
• Abiword
• CSound
• D-BUS (PyDoc)
• GStreamer (PyDoc)
• Telepathy
• SECore
• HulaHop
• JSON
• UrlGrabber
• Evince
• Gtk, (PyDoc)
• GObject, (PyDoc)
• Hippo
• Yum
• RPM

Raw PyDoc documentation is automatically generated from a running official image. Script is available via bzr branch http://www.vrplumber.com/bzr/autodoc