Organic Maps on Ubuntu Touch
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Hello,
view weeks ago I started to switch from Android (Calyx OS) to Ubuntu Touch.
I use my smartphone also as a freelancer and need to relay on it.
I tried few Navigation Apps and Organic Maps works at its best for me. It is, in a good way, simple, to use.I wrote to them, if they like to adapted it to UT.
I have no idea in programming, but I wanted to share the answer:
"Hi O.....
We would love to support the development of OM for UT more actively, but our resources are very limited. With enough donations or active contributors/developers the situation may change.
There's already the cross-platform C++ core, only the good UI should be developed on top of it (although it's a lot of work…)
What are your thoughts/ideas on that?
With best regards,
Alexander Borsuk
Software Engineer & Co-Founder @ Organic MapsSupport the development of free, privacy-focused, open-source maps:"
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I see they have a desktop app that seems more or less responsive, maybe it could be possible to run it directly in Ubuntu Touch with Xmir. That's a shame they don't have a snap you could install it directly and try it.
Upcoming Mir2.0 with wayland should also improve the feasibility of using desktop apps, in Ubuntu Touch.
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Hallo again,
now Alexander Borsuk from Organic Maps seems to change his mint, and want to find a solution for UT.
Maybe is good to know, that this app is also avaible in F-Droid. So they seems (and write) to care about privacy.
He wrote: "Maybe we can start from building OM and distribute it via snap on all Ubuntu versions? Are you familiar with this process?"
I have now idea how to program apps, but it would be nice, if one of you support this progress and make the open store richer
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@bunt7 said in Organic Maps on Ubuntu Touch:
now Alexander Borsuk from Organic Maps seems to change his mint, and want to find a solution for UT.
Amazing! Congratulations!
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@bunt7 said in Organic Maps on Ubuntu Touch:
He wrote: "Maybe we can start from building OM and distribute it via snap on all Ubuntu versions? Are you familiar with this process?"
I'm not sure what is currently possible with snap for making a fully integrated app, maybe other people can reply this question.
From what I understand their app is based on Qt, which is a good thing for making easily a native package! Though I seem to see it is based on Qt6, so it might be worth waiting for the upcoming release of Qt6 in Ubuntu Touch, that would greatly help porting the app natively. Once done, what I would do is simply try to run a binary of their desktop app built for Ubuntu 24.04 arm64, and it could potentially just work, if all dependencies are met.
So the first thing to do might be to list all the dependencies of their Desktop app.
I willing to help, at least by replying questions from my experience in porting Signal-Desktop, if you want to give him my contact. But other people may have more knowledge than me!
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@pparent
Hey pparent, I am very happy to hear this(-: -
@pparent
I can imagine, that Alexander is quite experienced, and together you will find good solutions.If sombody else have ideas, I think is always good to hear and discuss them.
I will ask Alexander if I can give you his emailadress.
