Ubuntu Touch Q&A 171 call for questions

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Ubuntu Touch Q&A 171 will be live this Saturday 9th August, if you can please join us at the usual time of 19:00 UTC.
Before then though, if you have any questions on or about UBports and Ubuntu Touch 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.

RJDan

How can we encourage app development as UT users?

I have been using UT for a few weeks now and I really like it! It looks good and it is responsive.
As an OS it works well.
A big sticking point for me has been trying to do things that I used to do on my android. Many apps will likely not come to UT (in the near future) and if I need to use waydroid for most things, why use UT at all?

Most of these activities can be done in a browser with minimal effort. However for somethings this is much much more than minimal effort.
for example, I use websites like inaturalist for logging observations of animals. It is a publicly funded research initiative and does not have money to develop apps for the one person who needs it on UT.
The web interface does not work well on UT browsers.
I have to swap to an android phone when I go for hikes.

Is there an acceptable/sustainable way to poke developers to 'make an app for xyz'?
I dont have the skills or time to do it myself but I am happy to trade time or pay something.
What about a stokvel system?

Ida_

Is there a deadline for submitting translations that will reach the first stable release of Noble?
Are there any particular Weblate projects we should focus on for translations, other than the Lomiri project?
In Lomiri's Weblate project, what is the component "Online Accounts Plugins", and will it be reopened for translations in time for the first Noble release?
Which donation platform/method is the best economically and practically for UBports?

messayisto

@UBportsNews I hope this question is okay, because I am aware of the fact that Dekko2 is not a core app. Unfortunately, I don't know how to ask it on Gitlab or anything like that. So I'll just ask it here:

Will Dekko make it into noble? At the moment, the App is opening, but crashes when I try to read or write a mail. There are similar reports from different devices. I know of the too little manpower in the development. But nonetheless for many users its essential to have a working mailclient on their devices. So this is the reason I dared asking. Best wishes ti you all!

sap

hello, since noble is around the corner I would like to know how the open store would work. both from a user perspective and a developer one.
will focal apps also be available on noble?
if yes, how to publish an app for both focal and noble?

thank you very much