IMHO the currently missing piece for UT as a daily driver Full Nextcloud integration is really the way to go.

So qtcontacts-sqlite seems to have landed in a branch:

https://github.com/ubports/address-book-app/commit/db8681e0e694a03d6c95632dabb4910719925c95

@mardy great to see some further progress on this. You think CardDAV might make it for OTA12?

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-arm-alpha2-with-lomiri-pinephone/39561

Super interesting development as a lot of the things UT will need in the future (when finally based on 20.04+) can already be implemented and tested on Manjaro.

Just found this:
https://www.peterspython.com/en/blog/developing-ubuntu-touch-apps-with-python-using-pyotherside

Seems like a nice start

Pyotherside will also work with qt quick controls 2?

@AppLee said in What do you think? Use only Lomiri as poweruser?:

When I read your post I think that you want us (as a community) to bail because it's a long way until UT is polished and with many useful and fun apps. But I don't think that we should stop because that is something I want and many others too.

No, I don't want the community to bail. I like UT overall, although I like Lomiri more than some other parts.

But what I see is that this community is struggleing to maintain a lot of the stuff Canocial developed back then and which made sense for their buisiness case (taking a cut from the app-store sales like Google does). And a lot of this baggage from Canocial times does not only cause a maintainance burden (by now it is technical debt despite some nice things about it) but actively turns away new contributors. Yes some of those might be tinkerers and are not primarily thinking about the use of UT as a daily driver phone, but as with all healthy open-source communities there is always a mix of different motivations and the sum is larger than its individual parts...

Unless you want to do the port yourself it is probably better to wait for the PineTab or get a already compatible one like the old Nexus7.

For porting youself, look for LinageOS support and Android7 or maybe soon 9.

@trwidick really? mms sending is a thing now? In my entire life I have maybe send an mms once by accident and I don't think I know anyone who uses those either.

And if you think your life will depend on it, then better not use a smartphone at all. They break easily and run out of battery quickly.

Awesome. This is probably one of the future must have apps on UT. Thanks a lot

I have about one year experience running the OnePlus3 (without t) as a daily driver.

It works with the same caveats @NoelFlantier described, but the port is abandoned and quite honestly I would not recommend getting one to use with Ubuntu Touch. But if you happen to have one already, sure give flashing it a try and maybe you will like it.

KaiOS is a quite interesting commercial fork of FirefoxOS and there is a FOSS version of it called GerdaOS (https://gitlab.com/project-pris/system ).

The interesting part is that all apps are webapps like on FirefoxOS, so if the right version of the Gecko engine was made to run on UT, it should be possible to run KaiOS apps on UT.

Given the high number of devices sold with KaiOS in India/Africa etc. there are actually some potentially interesting official apps for it, for example WhatsApp.

And it might be easier to get working than Anbox, given the low resource use of it.

Here is the link of the unofficial community run app-store with a lot of details about it:
https://sites.google.com/view/bananahackers/home

I used to have an account on Open-store.io that I didn't use in some years. Coming back now it seems direct accounts got removed and you can only log in with Github/Gitlab/Ubuntu One?

I remember having a direct account and not some link and those links seems to be also unaware of me ever having linked Open-store to them, so I assume there was some change?

Is there some way to recover my original account? Thanks.

A while ago there was some talk about adding a Webkit based browser instead of depending on the perpetually outdated qtwebengine like right now. Has there been any development on that?

The Signal gateway for XMPP is also working again, in case someone prefers that.

@peat_psuwit said in Call for testing: Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0:

Media playback control is fixed in the top-panel indicator, in applications, and over Bluetooth headset.

Thanks so much for fixing this. My number one issue with UT was that I can't change music tracks over bluetooth. I hope it really works with my old car stereo now 🤩

I am wondering if anyone tried to run those apps on Waydroid.

The Trade Republic app seems to require microg but I found people saying it works on GrapheneOS for example after installing microg.

The Revolut app seems to be the main blocker for a friend of mine to try UT. No idea about the specific requirements, but it seems like you need it to validate webclient access, so the web-wrapper available at the Open-store will not work without somehow running the Android app either.

Thanks for the help.

Anyone tried it with a FP5 that has been upgraded to Android 15 already?

Anyone tried if Bluetooth media buttons work now? Those for changing the volume, changing the music track and accepting calls.

@FixOne This is awesome. You think it can be also turned into an unconfined click package for normal installation from the Open-Store?

@kugiigi Great to know. I guess I'll wait for an official release with 24.04 then to try it on my FP5.

Just wondering if anyone has tested if convergence with an external screen via the USB-C display-port is working already?