I missed an update yesterday, but I just updated to daily update 301. Tested the camera and surprisingly it worked every single time I used it, even flipping back from the rear camera back to the front camera. Played with some settings, changed some resolutions etc, took many photos, and the app still worked the entire time even after closing and reopening. Bravo to devs! Now, if only there was a solid native email application that worked, I would daily drive my pixel 3a XL. So close! Scrolling improved on daily update 299, I noticed it's not nearly as janky as it was. It's certainly much better, but not quite there yet. Patience! So far I am pretty impressed with Ubuntu touch, especially on this device. It's very smooth. Thank you to everybody who works on this project.

@pparent said in Taking the plunge: It's aslo the banks that edit passports? I'm not sure. I live here but this is not my country. Banks handle secure identification for just about anybody else here though - government website, justice, healthcare, DMV, post office, insurance companies, utilities...everything. It never fails to blow my mind that the locals are okay with private financial institutions basically spying on your every important moves online - the ones where you have to use your real identity: if you have business with anything or anyone in an official capacity, they know whom you deal with and when. But at least one of my colleagues got a painful reminder: he tried to get a loan to buy a new house and his application was declined for no reason that seemed to make sense, since he never missed a payment or got so much as a parking ticket. After some digging around with a friend who worked at the bank, it turned out the bank figured he had a drinking problem based on appointments he made online with his identity at the local equivalent of the AA and classified him as a potentially delinquent wino. And another thing that blows my mind is: it doesn't seem to bother any of the local politicians that the entire life of the country - since most everything is done online here - is entirely dependent on two foreign mobile OS vendors operating in a fascist country, with a history of abusive monopolistic practices and privacy invasion. Because I guarantee you, if the local banks know what you're doing here, Google and Apple do too. If this was my country, I'd be distressed that those two companies are the virtual gatekeepers of the entire communication infrastructure of the country. It's totally nuts if you think about it.

@Moem @XPran By the way, in regard of the initial question, note that I've just published a new app for pdf reading that is called "Chromium Pdf" that should work pretty well for simple pdf viewing task. https://forums.ubports.com/topic/11492/new-app-chromium-pdf?_=1760632558784

Just my input: to record and playback voice messages works on both focal and noble.

@domubpkm In Chromium PDF the zooming & scrolling is mostly fine and quite responsive, much better than document viewer. Although I think performance will still improve with Qt6 to be perfectly fluid, and with Qt6 PDF.js might be even better than Chromium PDF, and we'll get top-notch PDF reader.

@gpatel-fr Vndk deprecation happens in Android 15, not 14 - unless Halium 14 means Android 15 ? I think the only thing UT has to do with VNDK is mount the correct partitions to be read by the android container, which handles the rest. Ask in the porting group for more detail, there are already some short discussions around it. to check the vndk version, it's necessary to enable debug mode on the phone, connect a computer through usb and use adb You can install an app called Treble Info from F-Droid.

@uwahl better would be to install it directly trough open store app. e.g from fileManager open with openstore

@arubislander Thanks arubislander and pparent, it helps me to get an more differentiated view on the subject.

@mr_growl Good to know! It is a Mac for whatever that's worth. At the time, I wanted to try something different, and now, I'm missing Linux every time. Hahaha

@Vlad-Nirky Ok, good ideas, thank you for your help.

Just looked to the camara devices. There ist yust one: Camera 0 Front facing. Is it possible to activate the main camera without complete new install of the system?

@fihex123 Please follow the steps for the installation as descripted by arubislander. You could also take a look at this step by step description: https://forums.ubports.com/post/43884 If you have no success, try a different USB cable and a different USB port. If you are using the Windows Installer, you could also check if it works better under Linux. Sometimes the installation does not work the first time.

@Bolly said in Where can i highlight spelling errors on app pages on the OpenStore website?: Besides, you had to open an issue in each application, not both in the same application. Thanks for the heads up, I overlooked that mistake. I'll get around to fixing it. Edit: Done!

@Vlad-Nirky Hello, thank you for this information. Of course it's stupid for me, but it makes things clear! My two most important apps establish data connections to devices via Bluetooth. It's about solar and LFP batteries I can probably forget that now. Have a nice evening & best regards Charly

@0xinit69 Well, it could explain the failure. The UT port is based on Halium 11. So the Android version, before UT install, should be Android 11. [image: 1760790354793-d8bca01c-cb3e-45e8-b54d-fd73e49f254f-image.png] Consider flash to Android 11 again and retry the UT installer.

@MrT10001 Thank you for your tip. I changed for two days to the 24.04-1x Daily and it updated automatically to the stable version, now it works like a charm, no more flickering. It seems like the YouTube app has a heavy bug. At this point, I really think that now the time is come to provide all the developers with a reliable device farm. Thanks UT for the magic! Gabriel

@Moem Great idea!

@messayisto Thanks, Mate. So it needed two attempts to get it working again. I first tried the 0.5.1 Focal for UT 24.04 which also did not work. I ended up with the one for UT 20.04 which now runs smoothly.