Ubuntu Touch Q&A 176 call for questions.

UBportsNews

Ubuntu Touch Q&A 176 will be live this Saturday 18 th Oct if you can please join us at the usual time of 19:00 UTC.
Before then, if you have any questions on or about Ubuntu Touch and UBports please post them below and we will do our best to answer them in the Q&A.

Remember that questions on porting to device **** or its status, and questions on bugs, will not be answered.

Vlad Nirky

@UBportsNews
First of all, a huge thank you to those who contribute to the development of UT, its community, and the porting of new devices. You are exceptional!
Would it be possible, as Felix and Sander started to do, to create sessions, webinars, or videos to explain application development under UT?
How to get started and also progress in application or UT development, how to deal with the changes linked to Noble release, with the futur use of QT6, and so one.
Thanks for reading.
Vlad

messayisto

@UBportsNews I get the impression that some new people have joined the community recently, mostly as a result of Android's stricter bootloader rules.
Have you noticed this, and how are you dealing with it? Are there new and more developers in the project?

domubpkm

What the situation for mir2.x subsurface support on Noble ?

t12392n

I am to be a user soon as I got myself a Volla Quintus but have yet to make the switch. Looking forward to see where this is going as this is AWESOME.
I have been experimenting with the phone and its setup to prepare myself and the environment I require.

I hope nope but I haven't seen any answers to my questions somewhere, otherwise my questions are as follows:

How are things going with the project, how does it feel?
I am rooting for you in the limited way I can atm! You have no idea of how many are looking for an alternative for the droid and fruit.
What are plans for applications and their adaptation?
at the moment we have an appstore which is not connected to the others, snap or apt, and so far unique to Ubuntu Touch but this slows the community developments of apps.
(I know you can activate APT/SNAP or use Libretine however it requires some knowledge and creates some risks of a bad user experience)
What are the plans for security and privacy control?
Will there be a way to control access for apps or internal services through the main UI?

captainfunk

Hi everyone ,

Thanks for the Q&A and all the work for UT !

I have a few questions :

If we stay on Focal will we still get some updates on regular core and non-core apps ?
Is there an upgrade on the kernel when we go from Focal to Noble ? And if so which kernel is shipped on Noble ?
From Noble, is that hard/complex to revert back to Focal ? where can we find a "guide" ?

I believe Linux mobile has a bright future considering Google is making a lot of moves toward more lockdown on Android and therefore creating problems for customs FOSS android ROM / AOSP forks. Peace

uxes

I saw that the FSF is working on this Librephone project. Do you think it could help Ubuntu Touch in any way? Maybe UBports should team up with them?

Charly

Hello community,

First of all, many thanks to everyone who made UT 24.04-1.0 possible.

It is clear that there are still some errors at the beginning.

Will there be a version 24.04-1.1 soon?

Or is the normal ota rhythm followed (every 2 months)?

Best regards
Charly