Hi,

v8.0 is released so let's move forward and start to think about v8.1.

In the list below I collected the ideas I found useful and reasonable for v8.1. It's not written into stone, so feel free to make suggestions.

If you are interested in contributing in v8.1, just comment here! 🙂

Features

• Unit testing (gtest?). See #1658
• Benchmarking (gem5 or qemu?). See #1660
• lv_snapshot: buffer a widget and all of its children into an image. The source widget can be on a different screen too. The resulting image can be transformed.
• 9-patch support for lv_imgbtn.
• Optimize line and circle drawing and masking
• High level GPU support. See #2058

Examples

Missing examples

• color examples
• coordinate examples
• draw (mask and event) examples
• style color filter and const examples
• at least 2 examples for every widget (basic + styling)

New features

• merge MP examples
• add a "Try out yourself" button to the Micropython examples

Discuss

• CPP binding
• Plugins. In v8 core and extra widgets are separated. With the new flexible events, the behavior of the widgets can be modified in a modular way. E.g. a plugin to add faded area to a line chart (as in the widgets demo)

Docs

• Display the Micropytohn examples too.
• Add a link to the example C and py files
• List of all examples on a page. All in iframes grouped by category (e.g. flex, style, button)

Others

• Add automatic rebuild to get binary directly. Similarly to STM32F746 project.
• Implement release scripts. I've added a basic specification here, but we should discuss it.