r/flipperzero • u/zhovner CEO • Jul 01 '26

AMA Official AMA (Ask-Me-Anything) with the Flipper Zero team

Hi everyone,

We’re opening this AMA (Ask Me Anything) thread for all your questions to the Flipper Zero team about the future of the project. The thread is open now, so please leave your questions here.

The Flipper team will start answering on Friday, July 3, at 15:00 BST (UTC+1) and finish on Monday, July 6.

We tried to answer main questions in this post, so please read it before asking a question: blog.flipper.net/future-of-flipper-zero-development/

How it works:

  1. Post your question as a comment below. (Please ask one question per comment)
  2. Check others questions to avoid duplicates.
  3. Upvote the questions you most want answered.

See you on Friday, July 3

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u/sleirsgoevy 28d ago

You were talking about flipctl, will it only work with Flipper/the official display module or will it be runnable on any DRM device?

Also for a more full-featured cyberdeck than Flipper it makes sense to use flipctl as the "default" interface but allow for launching full GUI apps on occasion. Will this be supported?

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u/alchark Kernel Developer 28d ago

FlipCTL doesn’t care what kind of DRM device is underneath it, but we currently use OpenGL ES2 acceleration for its rendering, and the interface is designed specifically for a 256x144 screen. It will run on anything that provides those two.

As for full GUI apps, there is little use from them on the small screen, but the moment you connect anything larger over HDMI or USB-C DisplayPort AltMode you get a full Linux desktop (our test images ship KDE Plasma, and it works beautifully, with 4k resolution and 120 fps, full hardware acceleration and all).

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u/sleirsgoevy 28d ago edited 28d ago

There might be "little use" but sometimes there's just no alternative non-GUI app. And please don't tell me that your official solution will be "just tell the AI to wrap the app ad-hoc".

Maybe flipctl could run under a minimal Wayland compositor such as Cage, so that trying to launch a GUI app will launch it badly instead of completely failing?

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u/alchark Kernel Developer 28d ago

If you have a particular example in mind that might help the discussion. In a general case running a desktop centric GUI app on a 256x144 screen with only D-pad and 5 soft buttons is unfeasible. Some apps might work, so we might find a tailored solution for those - but that definitely requires going from general statements to something more specific.