Hey, Do anyone have experience in developing GNOME apps?

Question

I want to learn vala language for Gnome Desktop Application development but internet has a lack of resources. And tutorials are going at the top of heads. Pls post answers If any sololearner is expert in creating gnome apps or know anything about creating apps using vala...

Answer 1

I've discovered vala some weeks ago, but haven't really tried it yet (because I had problems finding a decent tutorial as well). Actually vala code compiles to C code first, so knowing C will help you with vala later on anyway and the only tutorial I found for Gtk3 on the official web site was explained in with C code... If I had time I would try this tutorial, but currently I'm working on a different project so this needs to wait for now.
I recently discovered the IDE builder, too, which was made for Gnome development and supports vala by default (and flatpak packages which is also quite nice).
Btw. vala depends on C and glib, a basic C library developed for (but not only) gnome.
I hope this was helpful :)

Answer 2

P.S. I just found this:
https://elementary.io/docs/code/getting-started#what-we-will-and-wont-cover
This could be interesting because elementary OS devs mainly use vala for their apps and the desktop environment, so there might be more information than on the official gnome website.

Answer 3

why you want to develop for gnome