Ok in this version of whatsweb I have the notifications working without being unconfined, and it gets to the system panel! (Provided the app is not suspended in background)

https://github.com/pparent76/whatsweb/tree/82cd0c659af09bfad4315ba6c39e398d881451c3

Hi,

Whatsweb has been upgraded to version 0.3.0. @alefnode has merged my work including some improvements listed bellow 🥳. The app should work correctly for all the main features. If you see something not working please do not hesitate report, as I'm working on it these days.

Improvements in current release:
-Support for notifications (if app suspending is disabled in Ubuntu Tweaks and app kept open)
-Smoother navigation with transitions
-Smoother keyboard appearance/appearance
-Avoid opening the keyboard untimely, when navigating
-Enable GPU acceleration
-Hide left panel for more pleasant interface
-Make Emoji panel usable
-Better graphical integration of navigation buttons ( back in chatview )
-Copy a message to clipboard quickly with a long push on message.
-Screensaver when the app is not foreground: hide the webview to save battery
-Fix "contact info" panel
-Fix left menus.
-Fix Upload files

Improvements coming very soon in another revision:

• Fix screensaver background image ( When app is not in foreground )
• Fix navigation icons&screensaver color in dark mode.
• Fix "new conversation" + "Archived conversation" + "Chats in community panel"
• Allow to download medias and export to other apps
• Optimize scaling and font-size
• Add a notice while the application is loading to inform users about the necessity to disable suspend with "Ubuntu tweaks" to get notifications.

Todo later:

• Create an internal configuration menu to tweak the app (Scaling, Font Size, Enable/Disable notifications, gpu, screensaver,background audio in webview, quick copy to clipboard, ... )
• Clean code
• Minor bug correction, and tweaks for rarely used features

@Opolork Dual boot is possible on vollaphone, it's a feature provided by the manufacturer.

https://wiki.volla.online/index.php?title=MultiBoot_mode_in_VollaOS_for_VollaPhone_Quintus

My solution to the initial question:
Here is my QML module to handle local notifications:

https://github.com/pparent76/UbuntuTouch-qml-notify-module

It contains a script setup-project.sh to install automatically all the requirements into the app project.

Also this push request to the whatsweb app can be pretty informative:

https://github.com/alefnode/ubports-apps/pull/44

Especially this commit that corresponds to setting up the module with setup-project.sh:

https://github.com/alefnode/ubports-apps/pull/44/commits/81d08baba14ed941ca0c9b246d0df543b0a452a6

And I guess privacy and freedom activists especially in the field of mobilephones, might have interest in being proactive and proposing solutions at the edge of privacy protection, rather than letting others propose solutions that are not so good for privacy.

If others want to do it, I'm willing to participate in developing such an app.

@lduboeuf said in Send notification locally from QT/C++/QML App.:

congrats for your perseverance. Now you are in the perfect situation to update or create a documentation

Thank's I will make better than this! I will update my QML notification module, and make a scripts that installs into an existing project all the prerequisites for it to work. Because there are some many tweaks to achieve it that it should not be done by a human, it's a loss of time, and the risk of mistake is too high. And anyway a script is always a more precise documentation on the actions to take than a human readable documentation.

@pparent This is not a good idea to do.

No disrespect, but I think this is why I will choose pureOS in the long run, whenever I receive the phone and it is usable.

As users I want to be able to do the same things we can do on our computer, and be in control of our device, without being artificially limited, and not being sandboxed into a container. Otherwise I would use Android!

@CatWithUT

Thank you for your work it seems very interesting to me!

Just a quick question: do you think it would be feasible to create a .click package and have it in the Openstore? In a similar fashion that uWolf and uFirefox does? Can we avoid libertine containers? Do you think upcoming Mir2.0 will change anything in this regard as it supports Wayland?

Do you use Mobian build scripts for ARM, for signal-desktop? https://github.com/0mniteck/Signal-Desktop-Mobian/releases

And also note: if we can get an initial version to build and make an UT package I'm willing to work on making patches to make the interface responsive as I have done with whatsapp web. I think this is the easy part.

But we should first make a set of scripts to build automatically a binary, and then a click package that can run on UT.

For anyone interested I made a small qml module, allowing desktop notifications with haptic feedback (vibration). Once again this is not optimal as the notification does not make its way to the ubuntu touch panel itself, and requires the app to be unconfined (EDIT it now trigers notifications on system panel, and does not require to be unconfined), but it is still very usable and usefull.

https://github.com/pparent76/UbuntuTouch-qml-notify-module

Hi,

I'm wondering how much of non-free software is there in UBports?

I guess that there must be at least non-free firmware blob in the kernel, as only few distributions remove them ( e.g Debian, Trisquel, Pureos ). Are there also non-free drivers in the kernel for some devices? Are there other non-free software unrelated to the kernel installed by default?

I think it would be most interesting to have a most precise view on this question, since the free and open-source software argument is the main advantage of UBports against Android.

Also note that Replicant maintans a list of "Freedom and privacy/security issues" for each of its targeted devices. None of them is completly free of issues.

Thank's in advance for your reply!
PIerre.

@XPran said in Desperate guy Here:

The version that i have is the 16.04.7 LTS

Uff yes this very old, make sure to upgrade the system before anything else if you want to have a decent experience. For this reason you don't have a good experience of the system.

You may have to do several upgrades in a row, as you probably won't be able to go directly from 16.04 to 24.04. Or you can, indeed reinstall a fresh system, with the installer could be the easiest option. And if you don't have any data on the phone you can wipe userdata when installing to make sure to have everything clean, but if you have userdata you want to keep leave the "wipe user data" box unticked and it will be preserved.

I would recommend installing 24.04, as it works well on Vollaphone 22 and hardware acceleration works significantly better than on 20.04 form my experience from my experience, and it will avoid further major upgrade later.

I'm very surprised you have this version if you bought the phone only 8 month ago. Was the phone new?

@XPran This is the video that you should follow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5yM7XEXryg

@XPran

Yes go to the openstore, download the app "Waydroid Helper" (You can also download there whatsweb and TELEports) , then open it and click on "Install Waydroid" and normally it should work fine after that. You should not need to run any terminal command.

If it does not work you can also try to uninstall and install again from the waydroid helper app, and if really it did not work, and also reboot the phone and/or upgrade Ubuntu Touche it if applicable.

Then you can install within the Waydroid container the official APK of whatsapp that you can find on their website.

@XPran

Apt update should not have harmed anything especially if you did not remount the filesystem in read/write before.

Did you install Waydroid helper from openstore? Did you go in the helper and follow the install waydroid process?

What version of Ubuntu Touch are you currently running ( you can see that in settings)? If you are still running 20.04, maybe you can try to ubpgrade to 24.04 before anything else.

I have a vollaphone 22 , waydroid has always worked fine for me.

@XPran

As an addition to TELEports and Whatsweb, did you try as well to install Waydroid in Ubuntu touch? Native Whatsweb and TelePorts app for Ubuntu touch should do the trick for most day-to-day needs, and offer notifications. But having a fallback to official Whatsapp and Telegram in Waydroid may be usefull as a complementary solution, if you need some advanced features at some point.

In addition to those already mentioned, uWolf can be another solution for modern pdf reading, although if it's a local file you currently need to enter this url manually "file:///home/phablet" then browse to your file on disk. You can bookmark the url or even set it as homepage if you don't use uWolf for browsing. Hopefully in the future we will be able to directly open file with uWolf from file explorer app with content hub.

Make sure to keep your system and applications up-to-date as things are rapidly moving forward.

@mihael Great thank you very much!

@mihael

Ok thank's! Scaling and font size appears correct for you?

@mihael said in Whatsweb app upgrade.:

@pparent I have a N10 on focal and a N100 on noble. Whatsaweb looks perfect on both, no problem with the scaling.

Ok Nice you will be able to test it. With latest revision normally you will have fontsize a bit bigger, that to me seems more pleasant to read, and more on par with Android app.

On another note, and I don't know if this is something that can be easily fixed: when I forward a message, it does the forwarding but then there is no back arrow from the chat. I have to restart the app. This has been with the previous version of the app as well.

I see, it will be solved in latest release, alongside other situations where you could be stuck.

@mihael and everyone,

I have a question: are you currently using noble or focal, and what's your feedback about the app scaling? (Is it too big? too small? Does it display correctly?)

I noticed that for me the upgrade ( Vollaphone 22 ) changes quite dramatically scaling in some apps, and especially in the browser, and webview based apps. Everything is way bigger than it was.

In particular in my whatsweb, for me with focal everything was a bit small but ok, there was no display problem. But with Noble it's too zoomed in, and there are display problems, the messages and images don't fit in the screen. I've had to apply a zoom factor of 0.88 to the webview.

So I think one of the important features will be to allow users to users to set the scaling of the app+ fontsize, but also it would be nice to find automatically a nice value.

[EDIT] I've done a quick tinkering, to adapt webview zoom factor automatically and make font size more pleasant, It will need to be tested on another device.

@Moem said in Taking the plunge:

The Cinny option works rather well I must say. Two niggles remain:

Three niggles remain:

*You loose end-to-end encryption, and the matrix relay server gets to read your messages unencrypted.

For Signal I use Molly Foss in Waydroid.