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

@AppLee Nice to hear. I finally got around getting a Lapdock and it works great with the FP5, just Android desktop mode isn't great at all compared to UT.

@Keneda Still waiting for UT to arrive on my FP5, but at least PmOS seems to make progress on it and the wiki page also claims that there is someone working on a UT port:
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Fairphone_5_(fairphone-fp5)

@kugiigi already got mine, looks promising for PostmarketOS as well. Maybe I'll get back into Ubports if it works well.

Maybe it is possible to register via the signald CLI app?

Another workaround would be to use the Slidge XMPP gateway that supports Signal, but XMPP clients on UT are sadly not great either. Movim works in the browser though, just no webpush on UT.

@LemmyMemy Uhm, when I flashed my One Plus 3 some years ago I had to reformat some of the partitions in TWRP (into ext3?) before it would install. Can't remember exactly which ones, but maybe it can give you a hint what to do.

However please be aware that the One Plus 3 port is abandoned for quite some time now and I think is unlikely to get a 20.04 upgrade because of that. I have sadly since then flashed back to Linage OS as that is still actively maintained on this device.

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.

Updater says last update from the 30th of October for the "dev" channel... so far there used to be a new build almost every day.

Did something change on the build server?

Has there been any progress on the wired headphone and bluetooth button support after that thread a while ago where many people contributed the exact response of pressing the buttons?

@jo there is only https://open-store.io/app/coronaapp.de.arnef

maybe you can manage to run the "warn app" via an Android compatibility layer (in the future), but no idea.

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?