@manland Fantastic work! I have been looking for a good way to utilize spotify on UT and had been relying on running it in anbox. I'm happy to see this work is going on.

I was able to download and install Futify on my OPO. I've started using and testing it. I've been keeping a list of issues I come across. Some of them might be true issues (i.e. not all my playlists are loaded). Others might be more feature-request-like (ability to shuffle songs in playlist, repeat a single song in a playlist, continuous loop of songs in a playlist).

Would you prefer I submit these in a single issue on gitlab or open them up separately?

Thanks again for your hard work. I am really excited about this app!

Hi Everyone,

I wanted to share my experience with getting the anbox container to start after installation as well as ask a question. I have read on here that some people are having difficulty getting the container started after they have installed anbox from the instructions. Here is what worked for me:

SYSTEM
OS: 16.04
Device: Oneplus One (bacon)

• Reboot the device after installation

• Note: I used a bluetooth keyboard for my device after this point, but you may be able to do something similar using adb shell with the device connected to a PC.

• On the device (the ubuntu-touch device), open the terminal

• Likely, adb devices will show the device to be offline.

• Do anbox-tool upgrade

• Once it finishes, check that the container has be started by doing adb devices. The emulated should now have a status of device, I believe (or at least it is not offline anymore).

This seems to work for me and I am able to install android apps pulled from my android device (although they don't appear to work... but that is another post).

My question is, is there a better way to get the container running after reboot? It seems to me that anbox-tool upgrade is like using a machine gun to kill a fly. Is there a file in the ubuntu touch filesystem that can be edited to run anbox-tool upgrade or whatever the line is in anbox-tool upgrade that starts the container?

As another experiment, I tried the following:

• reboot device
• open terminal
• run sudo mount -o rw,remount /
• adb devices still shows the container to be offline.
• anbox-tool upgrade does the trick to start the container.

Hi Everyone,

I was wondering if there were an UBT app that allows the following:

• Allows you to select apps to block at certain times of the day. For instance, don't allow the usage of Facebook from 9am to 6pm.
• Once apps are scheduled to be blocked, the schedule cannot be turned off. I.e. If I scheduled to Facebook to be blocked from 9am to 6pm, I can't regain access to Facebook by simply turning off the blocking app or restarting the phone.

There is an app on android that does this (simply called "block") but I was wondering if there were something equivalent for UBT. I checked the app store, but nothing stood out to me. Thanks in advance!

@manland I just submitted several issues gained from my experience using the app. In no way am I implying these things are missing and the app is bad. Quite the opposite. I wanted to give you as much feedback as I could so that the app succeeds! Thank you again for all your hardwork. I'll keep testing on my end.

@mihael Thank you for your response. Here is what I did:

• Reboot device.
• Launch terminal.
• adb devices shows container to be offline.
• anbox-tool enable shows Anbox is already enabled
• adb devices shows container to be offline.
• sudo mount -o rw,remount /
• anbox-tool enable shows Anbox is already enabled
• adb devices shows container to be offline.
• anbox-tool upgrade, then adb devices shows container to be started.

@hummlbach Sorry, I can definitely see Axolotl. I was anticipating an app called Signal. Thanks for the tips. I'll be messing around with it!

One app that I use every day is an app that blocks access to other apps. In the google play store it is simply called Block Apps. Basically, it allows the user to set schedules of apps that are blocked from being used until that schedule ends. I think Block Apps makes it very difficult to gain access to these apps once they are blocked (i.e. can't gain access from power down or restart).

Naively, I think this would be straightforward. Almost like a cron job interface for UT. But I have no experience developing mobile apps. If people would find this type of app useful, I'd be willing to start learning how to develop it.

@mihael ah yes. The toggling does work for me. Thanks!

@Ingo Thanks for those details. Whenever I run the command adb install-multiple -p spotify* on my device I get:

Failed to create session
Error: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Missing inherit package name

However, when I did just adb install-multiple spotify*, that seemed to work successfully. I restarted the UT device and it all seems to work! Thanks a bunch for the assistance everyone!

@hummlbach That's a good point. I'm trying to get to the bottom of how I subscribed to them originally. Whether I found them through the google calendar app or by some other means. I'll update here once I figure it out.

Yep, that sounds exactly like what I was going for hahaha. Thanks for the feedback!

Hi Everyone,

I had an idea for a webapp that would launch Morph and take the user to one of the Yotter public instances. It seems like it would be a pretty easy thing to do, with the only issue being that I have never developed a webapp!

I was wondering if folks on here wouldn't mind pointing me to some resources to begin learning webapp development for UT? I have tons of experience writing data analysis and machine learning code in python, java, and c++ (though I'm not certain how much that carries over).

Anything like structuring webapp projects in general, webapp development best practices, and subjects specific to UT would be great to start reading.

One app that I use every day is an app that blocks access to other apps. In the google play store it is simply called Block Apps. Basically, it allows the user to set schedules of apps that are blocked from being used until that schedule ends. I think Block Apps makes it very difficult to gain access to these apps once they are blocked (i.e. can't gain access from power down or restart).

Naively, I think this would be straightforward. Almost like a cron job interface for UT. But I have no experience developing mobile apps. If people would find this type of app useful, I'd be willing to start learning how to develop it.

@manland I just submitted several issues gained from my experience using the app. In no way am I implying these things are missing and the app is bad. Quite the opposite. I wanted to give you as much feedback as I could so that the app succeeds! Thank you again for all your hardwork. I'll keep testing on my end.

I was wondering if others were able to get a Nitter + RSS feed working to mimic a Twitter feed? I know there are Twitter apps in the OpenStore, but I was curious if others had tackled this particular usecase?

I did some quick searching and testing but wasn't able to come to a resolution. I also came across Yotter but haven't messed around with it much.

@manland Fantastic work! I have been looking for a good way to utilize spotify on UT and had been relying on running it in anbox. I'm happy to see this work is going on.

I was able to download and install Futify on my OPO. I've started using and testing it. I've been keeping a list of issues I come across. Some of them might be true issues (i.e. not all my playlists are loaded). Others might be more feature-request-like (ability to shuffle songs in playlist, repeat a single song in a playlist, continuous loop of songs in a playlist).

Would you prefer I submit these in a single issue on gitlab or open them up separately?

Thanks again for your hard work. I am really excited about this app!

@hummlbach Sorry, I can definitely see Axolotl. I was anticipating an app called Signal. Thanks for the tips. I'll be messing around with it!

@hummlbach I am currently running:
OS: 16.04 (2020-W24)
Device: Oneplus One (bacon)
Channel: release-candidate

@hummlbach I searched "Signal" in the openstore and didn't see an app for it.

I was wondering what others experience has been using the Signal app on their UT device or if anyone has tried it yet?