Ubuntu Touch Q&A 109 Saturday 25th Sept At 19:00 UTC.

Moem

@thousandtopics said in Ubuntu Touch Q&A 109 Saturday 25th Sept At 19:00 UTC.:

Is the Pixel 3a the new Nexus 5?

Can you explain what you mean by this?

thousandtopics

@moem Oh yes! I have seen in youtube reviews, posts, comments and more how popular the pixel 3a is getting. The Nexus 5 is kind of old to keep supporting it, but seems to be very popular still for being a cheap phone.
Both phones in a way where supported by Google itself. Now, there are a lot of new devices comning out everyday. Keep giving support to such and old phone, might be difficult. A natural transition, and since it is becoming very popular might be the changee in promoted phones. Chaging the nexus 5 for the pixel 3a should be the most natural trasition in my opinion. I understand that the magic of these linuxy systems is to increase it's support for many years to prevent obsolence; however, let's face it. There are even as chep as nexud 5 phones with more recent versions of android. Nexus, one plus one and fairphones are old phones tha are no longer in production. New people comming to Ubuntu touch will find it difficult to find promoted phones in the future since it wil be no more of those specific 3 phones. In my experience, it has been very hard to check purchase options for those 3 promoted phones. People use to have more Xiaomi phones since are cheap.

Scoutone

Hi everyone,

I’m aware that a multiboot (i.e. having two mobileOS installed) is possible, depending on a modified recovery (aka TWRP), and by using both A/B partitions sets on compatible devices.

So, my questions are :

1- Does UT use both A/B partitions when doing an OTA-update ? (for the devices having A/B partitions of course), or does OTA-update use only one set of partitions anyway ? (cf. legacy devices)

I saw on a multiboot-tutorial that a specific build of UT was needed for multiboot, and that OTA updates then becomes unavailable. Which leads me to my last question :

2- What are the needed features and their tradeoffs for UT to be multiboot-compatible by default ? (i.e. to have the same UT as everyone, with OTA-updates, on a multiboot device)

poVoq

Is there any cooperation (other that working on the same upstream stuff) doing on with https://droidian.org/ ? Maybe it would be a good idea to get it to work with the Ubports installer?

thousandtopics

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domubpkm

@lakotaubp said in Ubuntu Touch Q&A 109 Saturday 25th Sept At 19:00 UTC.:

You should get full details from this group https://t.me/anbox_halium which is their Telegram group

I think the real active link is this now : https://t.me/WayDroid

Lakotaubp

@domubpkm Thanks for that. Is it just a name change or new group? got the link from the old anbox for all thread.

domubpkm

@lakotaubp I cannot answer in detail. Simply, your mentioned link is no longer active it seems.
I found the new link on this page: https://github.com/waydroid/waydroid

mateo_salta

@thousandtopics it has been done before, people have reverse engineered 'that app' the problem is they take legal action against the developers making them through dmca take-downs on github, and even users of the third party clients get blocked https://www.myce.com/news/whatsapp-now-permanently-bans-users-using-third-party-apps-75246/

very earily on they made a client, https://launchpad.net/whosthere

thousandtopics

@mateo_salta it might be done before, I didn't know.

MrT10001

Are there any older phones that are going to lose support, especially when the upgrade to 20.04 comes out? I am thinking phones like the Nexus 4 and 5, which Ubuntu Touch is great for repurposing these phones.

thousandtopics

@mateo_salta and if you think about it, this might be a recurrent question.

Lakotaubp

@mrt10001 Please see last Q&A Blog https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-news-1/post/ubuntu-touch-q-a-108-3778 for details

MrT10001

@lakotaubp My question has kind have been answered by Alfred, the Google Pixel 3a is the new Nexus 5.