Ubuntu Touch Q&A 105 Saturday 31st July At 19:00 UTC

UBportsNews

Ubuntu Touch Q&A 105 will be this Saturday 31st of July at 19:00 UTC. As well as the latest news on Ubuntu Touch development and updates we will be answering your much appreciated questions. Forum questions will get priority so post them here before the event or during the live show using Youtube Livechat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hwHwvbVhhc and Telegram.

Please remember that questions on porting to device **** or it's status, and questions on bugs will not be answered

schad

Would you consider hosting the Q&A on FunkWhale? You've already done a lot to help support the FediVerse ecosystem with PixelFed and Mastodon accounts, so I figured FunkWhale would be a good fit too for the purposes you're currently relying on SoundCloud for.

mateo_salta

@ubportsnews (decided to try and write a small app news brief) App News roundup:

The Godot games engine has seen a lot of exciting progress https://gitlab.com/abmyii/ubports-godot Thank you to abmyii and check out the Godot 3d test from pavelprosto94 https://github.com/pavelprosto94/godot_3d_test/ This test shows how well our devices preform with various 3d graphics, and allows a quick way to test out godot games: just hack your .pck file into this app and see if your godot game will run on UT, games on ut using the engine include: Bug Bounty! from Marquis Kurt, Liner, and Circle Jump. Check out this exciting way to bring games to UT!
Corona app: scan and display EU COVID related certificates.
And (if i can put in something I ported over) Check out the point and click adventure game Dead Ascend, Made opensource from Larpon with his qak (qml aid kit, components useful for 2d game making)

kryma

First time at the Q&A, so it might be a bit of a mouthful:

Get us excited about Focal! You mentioned that there won't be any noticeable changes in the user-facing side of the system once the migration hits. What will the 20.04 core allow the dev team to do, what should we expect to start seeing more of once we're on the new LTS?

The 20.04 migration has taken the dev team a good amount of time so far - a gargantuan task for sure. Do you expect to have an easier time porting to the future LTS releases - or are we doomed to a race to keep up?

How would one approach getting into contributing to the core apps? These have internal dependencies and a complex file structure, it seems - is there any documentation to read past the intro to Clickable?

Qt is an absolutely integral part of Ubuntu Touch. It is also proprietary, non-free (in both ways) software. Has the project encountered any trouble with that?

Thank you for this project. The fact that we have a daily drivable system outside of the big two is amazing. Even more amazing is how viable of a choice it's becoming. Just having both Anbox and Libertine in your pocket is a killer feature already - big props to all the devs that moved us all towards it.

Thieb

Dear all,

Does UT fundation has some stats about UT users (something comparable to what Linux Ubuntu did (https://ubuntu.com/desktop/statistics) : how many users and the distribution across the world, what langage do they use, what setup/cell phone do users have… ? From a marketing point of view that is relevant to know that kind of things.

Speaking of marketing, do you recommend a way of doing things when asking Android developers/organizations/internet players to adapt their App to OpenStore? How to hit the target ?
I was wondering if remind people about some stats could helps...

Thanks

Aury88

what do you think about Waydroid (aka Anbox-halium). what are the differences with anbox used on UT?
~~can Waydroid be in future an acceptable solution on UT as well as Anbox?~~

Waydroid has appeared in many articles in specialist newspapers around the world. Has this sudden increased visibility of this project already led to contributors also not linked to UT?

thanks @Xray2000 for the answer!I had missed that information

A Former User

@aury88 The old Anbox would not be developed anymore, WayDroid runs into a LXC-Container and is a lot faster and smooth, this would become the new one indeed.

poVoq

Some months ago there was some talk about modernizing the push infrastructure and maybe adding webpush functionality to Morph (cool would be also PWA support by the way).

Have there been some further developments on this?

poVoq

@kryma said in Ubuntu Touch Q&A 105 Saturday 31st July At 19:00 UTC:

Qt is an absolutely integral part of Ubuntu Touch. It is also proprietary, non-free (in both ways) software.

Is is not true. qt has been fully open-source for years. Its development model is not very open, but the software itself is.

poVoq

@schad said in Ubuntu Touch Q&A 105 Saturday 31st July At 19:00 UTC:

Would you consider hosting the Q&A on FunkWhale? You've already done a lot to help support the FediVerse ecosystem with PixelFed and Mastodon accounts, so I figured FunkWhale would be a good fit too for the purposes you're currently relying on SoundCloud for.

Is the video Q&A also available on Peertube? Peertube also supports live-streaming by the way (another nice option is Owncast).

thousandtopics

Question:
Had you ever tried to offer to key people in the software world, a working phone with Ubuntu Touch (or showed a phone in a meeting/conference/party/second breakfasts), so they may notice this project?

Let's say like Spotify CEO, the Netflix gang, so we the people download chapters in the tablets with UT. A Bank or Important company to let us create or have native apps?

In less words, what do you think we are missing in order to have permission from those big companies to build or they can build us apps for our beloved platform?

P.S. Does Marius will eat the sock he promised or he has a working Desktop Version of Ubuntu Touch(when is the due date)?

mardy

@kryma said in Ubuntu Touch Q&A 105 Saturday 31st July At 19:00 UTC:

Get us excited about Focal! You mentioned that there won't be any noticeable changes in the user-facing side of the system once the migration hits. What will the 20.04 core allow the dev team to do, what should we expect to start seeing more of once we're on the new LTS?

One of the thing is that it will be easier to develop core components using modern C++ (C++17 and C++20).

Mark

@thousandtopics as it is already working on the Pi 3 (not working perfectly of course) he should manage to avoid eating a sock this time around.

roru78

@mardy said in Ubuntu Touch Q&A 105 Saturday 31st July At 19:00 UTC:

@kryma said in Ubuntu Touch Q&A 105 Saturday 31st July At 19:00 UTC:

Get us excited about Focal! You mentioned that there won't be any noticeable changes in the user-facing side of the system once the migration hits. What will the 20.04 core allow the dev team to do, what should we expect to start seeing more of once we're on the new LTS?

One of the thing is that it will be easier to develop core components using modern C++ (C++17 and C++20).

AppLee

Q&A is over, so I'll lock this thread.
Feel free to open a new thread if you wish to discuss further more.