For real, Nreal, the folks who do the work on UT are heroic. It makes me want to learn to code. I'd never owned a cellphone before 2020, and I was just astounded that there was a non spyware OS that worked so well. I'm still astounded that buying an appropriate used phone and switching to UT isn't MUCH more common. Also, that's great news re: cross-app communication. On behalf of the world, thanks to the EU for continuing to enact legislation that many non-EU members wind up benefitting from (death to proprietary chargers). Hopefully the future is Matrix.

@naizena You are welcome

@tekisui said in Have to initiate manufature of mobile phones or smartphones: I read something about a "dosbox" to run gluugle play apps on ubuntu touch ? Assuming you mean Google: You may be thinking of Anbox. But that is old and no longer maintained. The better option, for those devices that can support it, is called Waydroid. But how that relates to the subject of this thread is unclear to me. And I think you asked this already. Were those answers not what you were looking for?

@thereverend Currently I don't see support for that device, but if you want to you can try to port UT on it Here is a good starting point. https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/porting/introduction/index.html Good luck.

@Keneda Let's admit that a few bad technocratic decisions are made, it won't change much I think because in the world of foss, I don't speak for UT specifically but all OS, many browsers are in circulation (and perhaps more after that), the sources are mainly free access and everyone is free to put in or remove the packages they want. This is just my reflection as a non-specialist. And the thing is that I can't see politicians alienating themselves from, for example, Firefox, a secure browser (so far) and very efficient and surely widely used in all aspects of administration. Beware of the perverse effects of bad political decisions.

Above all, it is office apps that are lacking for UT and I wouldn't mind paying a reasonable price for high-performance, reliable and maintained office apps.

@arubislander said in Bring devs to UT: ... a fully viable and operational UT. I think it is dependent on the device manufacturer more than the OS developer, which is why Volla is probably the best bet.

@jeeva said in How install Ubuntu touch on my Lenovo M10 605LC: but I tried to install If you device not in device list, you should NOT try to install, unless you are OK with possible problems like bricking...

@Moem I doubt his phone is 23 years old, there where no smartphone then. @tekisui Can you tel exactly what is hammer 2, is this a codename (for instance hammerhead is Nexus 5) ?

@valeriAshten All supported devices are here https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/ any that are not need to be ported by someone with the device which is not easy. We have more info here https://t.me/UTFAQ and https://forums.ubports.com/topic/206/will-you-port-to-device-x/1

@alrico I use Lineage on the older tablets, but even that loses support.

@andrew907 Yes, piper has no code for integration into a browser.

@pachof said in hello a question is there any port for the samsung gt-i9082l or gt i9080l, and if there is not then is there someone who wants to make a port of these devices: hello need a port for the samsung grand duos gt-i9082l or samsung grand gt-i9080l to give a second life to my old phones Since you are the one who feels the need, and you also own these phones, you would be the perfect candidate to do the job. Please see https://docs.ubports.com/porting

@mark777h You can start by looking at the documentation: https://docs.ubports.com/porting

@akseli You can check it at https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/ in the search field, enter the model of your device and check if it is on the list.

@tiffafk There is currently no easy way to do that on device. You would need to apply post-processing to the images. Search for tools to do this on Linux (preferably via the command line) chances are, those tools might work on UT too. Having said that: Have you checked what exif data is included by default? Maybe it already omits those things you do not want in it.

@Moem Yes, the term gets confused. Huawei phones have a bootloader that cannot be unlocked. That is why there are so few ROMs and mods on XDA developers.