Just for fun and since it's the end of the year, I pulled some stats from the OpenStore. Enjoy and happy New Year!

OpenStore Stats 2021 (Pulled 12/27/2021)

Apps Published and Updated

• 124 new apps published in 2021
• 265 apps updated in 2021

App Types

• 557 Apps
• 509 Web Apps
• 1066 Total Apps

App Architectures

• 827 apps are architecture agnostic
• 99 apps support amd64
• 167 apps support arm64
• 236 apps support armhf

Apps with the Most Thumbs Up Ratings

1. TELEports @ 112 thumbs up ratings
2. OpenStore @ 89 thumbs up ratings
3. Dekko 2 @ 76 thumbs up ratings
4. UT Tweak Tool @ 76 thumbs up ratings
5. uNav @ 53 thumbs up ratings

Apps with the Most Happy Ratings

1. TELEports @ 30 happy ratings
2. Dekko 2 @ 23 happy ratings
3. uNav @ 16 happy ratings
4. Music @ 15 happy ratings
5. Axolotl @ 15 happy ratings

App with Most Buggy Ratings

1. Camera @ 14 buggy ratings

Highly Rated Apps (Aggregate)

1. TELEports
2. OpenStore
3. Dekko 2
4. UT Tweak Tool
5. uNav

Apps with the Most Downloads (All Time & All Versions)

1. OpenStore @ 335,885 downloads
2. Calculator @ 236,693 downloads
3. Weather @ 149,621 downloads
4. Notes @ 145,275 downloads
5. Terminal @ 128,747 downloads

Apps with the Most Downloads - Non-Preinstalled Apps (All Time & All Versions)

1. UT Tweak Tool @ 85,990 downloads
2. uNav @ 81,279 downloads
3. TELEports @ 57,469 downloads
4. Pure Maps @ 55,965 downloads
5. Axolotl @ 44,654 downloads

Authors With the Most Apps (Not Including Web Apps)

1. Joan CiberSheep @ 28 apps
2. Brian Douglass @ 24 apps
3. Michael Zanetti @ 22 apps
4. Mateo Salta @ 19 apps
5. johandoe1960 @ 15 apps
6. Gregor Santner @ 15 apps
7. UBports @ 13 apps

Heaviest Clicks

1. SuperTux @ 170 MB
2. Stellarium @ 107 MB
3. Docviewer @ 104 MB
4. Pure Maps @ 100 MB
5. Dead Ascend @ 95 MB

Most Popular License

1. GNU GPL v3 @ 577 apps
2. Creative Commons - No Rights Reserved @ 116 apps
3. GNU LGPL v3 @ 94 apps
4. Proprietary @ 82 apps
5. MIT/X/Expat License @ 75 apps

Most Revisions

1. SuperTux @ 417 revisions
2. Nymea @ 402 revisions
3. ZK DATA @ 175 revisions
4. OpenStore @ 149 revisions
5. Kaidan @ 146 revisions

Hello friends! I have another update on the core apps and I wanted to thank all the contributors that are making Ubuntu Touch awesome!

• Calculator App
  • Released version 2.4.0
    • Theme support
• Calendar App
  • New release coming soon
    • Improved colors for calendars
• Camera App
  • Moved to GitLab
• Clock App
  • Moved to GitLab
  • Working on fixing alarm timing issues
• File Manager App
  • Moved to GitLab
  • Released version 0.6.1
    • ContentHub import fixed
• Gallery App
  • Released version 2.10.1
    • New options to configure the grid size
    • Fixed missing albums when upgrading from Vivid
    • Bug fixes and UX improvements
• Messaging App
  • Can be built using Clickable (coming soon)
  • Visual imporvements (coming in next OTA)
• OpenStore
  • Released version 2.50
    • Minor fixes
• TELEports
  • Moved to UBports organization on GitLab
  • Had their second hackathon and are making great progress

Multiple apps have also had translation updates, thank you translators!

Hello everyone! I wanted to give a quick update on what's been going on in some of our core apps and developer docs recently.

• Calculator
  • Updated the math.js library to fix issues with decimals
  • Moved the code to GitLab for automated deploys to the OpenStore
• Music
  • The swipe animation between tracks in the now play view has been updated
  • The music app is now available on the OpenStore!
  • Moved code to GitLab for automated deploys to the OpenStore
• Weather
  • Currently working on getting an api key from OpenWeatherMap so we don't need to rely on the current key
• Gallery
  • New "Info" panel for media file details
  • Other minor improvements and translation updates

In general news we are slowly moving the core apps over to GitLab. We are going to setup each core app that is a click to be automatically compiled with Clickable and deployed to the OpenStore. If you're interested in setting up your own app with automated deploys to the OpenStore check out the Clickable docs.

The docs have seen some improvements thanks to some new guides by @CiberSheep. There are now guides on Content Hub export and Content Hub import & Url Dispatcher. If you are willing and able to contribute a guide or an example app you can find a full list of things we want to create over at the Development Resources GitLab project.

Thanks to all the hard work of our Core App developers/contributors, all the great translators, and our documentation writers!

Hello everyone! I just wanted to apologize for the mishap with the weather app this week. We got an api key for OpenWeatherMap for UBports and I published an update to the Weather app without realizing there should also be a Weather Channel api key. I recently pushed an update that removes the Weather Channel option and also removes the issues users were facing by moving them to the OpenWeatherMap provider. Unfortunately we won't be reactivating the Weather Channel/Weather Underground data provider since it seems they are shutting down their api in favor of a business focused IBM provider and they are no longer offering free api access and their data seems to have restrictions for some countries. For now we will keep with just OpenWeatherMap but we will look into other options like DarkSky, etc.

Hello fellow developers!

The UBports App Dev Steering committee has recently started efforts to improve the app developer documentation. The improvements are not just geared at onboarding new developers, but they are also for experienced developers. The first step in this long journey was the publishing of a revamped app dev page in the UBports docs. But there are several holes in it still! We've identified several areas where a tutorial would be useful and created a project in GitLab to track them. If you are interested in creating documentation/tutorials check out the project on GitLab and/or join our UBAD Discussion Group on matrix.

We want to make Ubuntu Touch the best development platform out there! We appreciate your help and support!

Another year just ended and continuing last year's trend here are some fun stats from the OpenStore. Ubuntu Touch is still alive and growing!

OpenStore Stats 2022 (Pulled 1/3/2022)

Types

604 Apps
550 Web Apps
1154 Total Apps

Architectures

874 apps are architecture agnostic
128 support amd64
215 support arm64
266 support armhf

Heaviest Clicks

Dead Ascend @ 189M
SuperTux @ 172 MB (last year's #1)
Pocket VMs @ 118 MB
Stellarium @ 108 MB
VSCodium @ 108MB

Published/Updated

110 new apps published in 2022
234 apps updated in 2022

Most Thumbs Up Ratings

TELEports @ 136 thumbs up ratings (last year's #1)
OpenStore @ 108 thumbs up ratings
UT Tweak Tool @ 93 thumbs up ratings
Dekko 2 @ 84 thumbs up ratings
uNav @ 67 thumbs up ratings

Most Happy Ratings

TELEports @ 33 happy ratings (last year's #1)
Dekko 2 @ 32 happy ratings
Axolotl @ 23 happy ratings
Music @ 19 happy ratings
uNav @ 17 happy ratings

Most Buggy Ratings

Axolotl @ 25 buggy ratings
Dekko 2 @ 17 buggy ratings
Camera @ 15 buggy ratings
Fmessenger @ 15 buggy ratings
SuperTux @ 14 buggy ratings

Most Highly Rated (Aggregate)

TELEports (last year's #1)
OpenStore
UT Tweak Tool
Dekko 2
uNav

Most Downloads (All Time & All Versions)

OpenStore @ 380,525 downloads (last year's #1)
Calculator @ 264,361 downloads
Weather @ 165,171 downloads
Terminal @ 147,998 downloads
Notes @ 147,429 downloads

Most Downloads - Non-Preinstalled Apps (All Time & All Versions)

UT Tweak Tool @ 101,718 downloads (last year's #1)
uNav @ 90,730 downloads
TELEports @ 73,533 downloads
Pure Maps @ 65,957 downloads
Axolotl @ 56,110 downloads

Authors With the Most Apps (Apps Only)

Joan CiberSheep @ 30 apps (last year's #1)
Brian Douglass @ 24 apps
Michael Zanetti @ 21 apps
Mateo Salta @ 19 apps
johandoe1960 @ 15 apps
Gregor Santner @ 15 apps
UBports @ 13 apps

Most Popular License

GNU GPL v3 @ 628 apps (last year's #1)
Creative Commons - No Rights Reserved @ 117 apps
GNU LGPL v3 @ 99 apps
Proprietary @ 95 apps
MIT/X/Expat License @ 84 apps

Most Revisions

SuperTux @ 754 revisions (last year's #1)
nymea:app @ 660 revisions
OpenStore@ 167 revisions
Strum Reader @ 155 revisions
Kaidan @ 146 revisions

Latest OpenStore Downloads

This estimates the number of devices in use.

Focal arm64 @ 456 downloads
Focal amd64 @ 118 downloads
Focal armhf @ 220 downloads
Focal total @ 794 downloads

Xenial arm64 @ 3,564 downloads
Xenial amd64 @ 95 downloads
Xenial armhf @ 2,431 downloads
Xenial total @ 6,090 downloads

Xenial + Focal total @ 6884 downloads

Hello friends! It's been a while since I posted a core apps updated, but that just means there are more good things to talk about. Plenty of new releases over the last few months thanks to all the hard working contributors!

• Calendar
  • Released v0.8.1
    • Improved colors in color picker
    • Improved navigation between different views
• Clock
  • Released v3.12
    • Added user defined default alarm sound
    • Created work around for alarms sounding on the wrong time
• File Manager
  • Released v0.7.0
    • Removed bottom bars
    • Added theme support
    • New option to move the rename function to the swipe right actions
• Gallery
  • Released v2.10.2
    • Various fixes
• Notes
  • Released v0.7.0
    • New splash screen
  • Released v0.8.0
    • Initial dark mode support (better support coming in the future)
• OpenStore
  • Released v2.60
    • Added "Update All" button
    • Added banner loading indicator
    • Various fixes
  • Released v2.62
    • Various fixes
• Weather
  • Released v4.5.0
    • Added theme support
    • Fixed sunset/sunrise times
    • Improved moon phase display
  • Released v4.5.1
    • Various fixes

Multiple apps have also had translation updates, thank you translators!

I've been working on this for a bit, but I wanted to release an early version of a possible Dash replacement. You can find it for download on the OpenStore. It's a bit more of a traditional home screen, but that's where the your feedback comes in. What do you think of this possibly being the default on your phone? Nothing official has been decided, this is just an experiment that I've been working on.

When taking a look keep in mind that's is pretty early stage. Although it already has support for the same icon packs that Falcon uses (props to @CiberSheep for those!). I hope you enjoy it and please leave any feedback/discussion here!

Hello again friends! I have another quick update on the core apps & developer documentation.

• Weather
  • Removed "The Weather Channel" data provider
  • Moved to GitLab
• Welcome App
  • Moved to GitLab
  • Fixed broken links
  • Cool visual refresh coming soon
• Gallery
  • Moved to GitLab
• Calendar
  • Fixed setting of the default calendar
  • Fixed custom reminders
  • Improved working hours
  • Fixed long pressing to add events
  • Recurring events have their intervals shown in the event details
• Document Viewer
  • Moved to GitLab
• Developer Documentation
  • Tutorial on writable directories
  • Tutorial on Push Notifications
  • Tutorial on User Metrics

Thanks to all the hard work of our Core App developers/contributors, all the great translators, and our documentation writers!

Thank you all for the great feedback! Some really great discussions coming out of this and hopefully we can continue this and turn out a great operating system!

One thing that Sprint really suffers from right now is that its very rough and very early. It's not very well integrated with the rest of unity. I kinda ignored the launcher when making Sprint. That's probably something that we want to keep since it's uniquely Ubuntu. So rather than the current design in Sprint it might make sense to do away with the bottom "favorites" section and make sure the launcher is better suited for the most frequently used apps. At this point the app draw in the next big unity 8 release is a bit of an unknown. But once that's a reality then we should definitely look at how that will interact with Dash/Sprint.

One thing that came up several times is how this has an Android-like feel too it. And I did borrow some ideas for other OSs. This is similar to how on my computer I'm running a "traditional" desktop environment that you could say has a Windows-like feel. But that doesn't mean that its bad. Being different for the sake of being different isn't always a good thing. I think we should take a look at what we want to focus on for Ubuntu Touch that makes it stand out when compared to other OSs. Things like privacy, security, openness, and convergence come to mind. Yes we should most certainly have our own style, we want people to know when they are running an Ubuntu Touch device. But right now the app scope doesn't really do us any favors as its very rigid and lacks any customization. Another thing to consider is onboarding new users. Borrowing ideas from other OSs can help ease users into using Ubuntu Touch.

Due to the range of responses, I think it makes sense to include more customizations in the final solutions as people want different things out if their Ubuntu Touch. And the other take away (as mentioned above), is that we should come up with a few key features/points that we want to define Ubuntu Touch.

Again thank you all for the feedback!

@UltrasonicNoise I went ahead and removed the clicks from prang.ultrasonicmadness. Let me know if you need any more help!

Hello all! I just wanted to inform everyone that I am going to take down the OpenStore for maintenance on Sunday, May 28th around 23:30 UTC. I'll be upgrading the OS and using a new Ansible playbook for setup. It'll be switching to a new server, so if things go horribly wrong I can just switch dns back to the old server. I don't expect it to take very long, but Murphy's law could apply here .

Another year just ended and continuing last year's trend here are some fun stats from the OpenStore. Ubuntu Touch is still alive and growing!

OpenStore Stats 2022 (Pulled 1/3/2022)

Types

604 Apps
550 Web Apps
1154 Total Apps

Architectures

874 apps are architecture agnostic
128 support amd64
215 support arm64
266 support armhf

Heaviest Clicks

Dead Ascend @ 189M
SuperTux @ 172 MB (last year's #1)
Pocket VMs @ 118 MB
Stellarium @ 108 MB
VSCodium @ 108MB

Published/Updated

110 new apps published in 2022
234 apps updated in 2022

Most Thumbs Up Ratings

TELEports @ 136 thumbs up ratings (last year's #1)
OpenStore @ 108 thumbs up ratings
UT Tweak Tool @ 93 thumbs up ratings
Dekko 2 @ 84 thumbs up ratings
uNav @ 67 thumbs up ratings

Most Happy Ratings

TELEports @ 33 happy ratings (last year's #1)
Dekko 2 @ 32 happy ratings
Axolotl @ 23 happy ratings
Music @ 19 happy ratings
uNav @ 17 happy ratings

Most Buggy Ratings

Axolotl @ 25 buggy ratings
Dekko 2 @ 17 buggy ratings
Camera @ 15 buggy ratings
Fmessenger @ 15 buggy ratings
SuperTux @ 14 buggy ratings

Most Highly Rated (Aggregate)

TELEports (last year's #1)
OpenStore
UT Tweak Tool
Dekko 2
uNav

Most Downloads (All Time & All Versions)

OpenStore @ 380,525 downloads (last year's #1)
Calculator @ 264,361 downloads
Weather @ 165,171 downloads
Terminal @ 147,998 downloads
Notes @ 147,429 downloads

Most Downloads - Non-Preinstalled Apps (All Time & All Versions)

UT Tweak Tool @ 101,718 downloads (last year's #1)
uNav @ 90,730 downloads
TELEports @ 73,533 downloads
Pure Maps @ 65,957 downloads
Axolotl @ 56,110 downloads

Authors With the Most Apps (Apps Only)

Joan CiberSheep @ 30 apps (last year's #1)
Brian Douglass @ 24 apps
Michael Zanetti @ 21 apps
Mateo Salta @ 19 apps
johandoe1960 @ 15 apps
Gregor Santner @ 15 apps
UBports @ 13 apps

Most Popular License

GNU GPL v3 @ 628 apps (last year's #1)
Creative Commons - No Rights Reserved @ 117 apps
GNU LGPL v3 @ 99 apps
Proprietary @ 95 apps
MIT/X/Expat License @ 84 apps

Most Revisions

SuperTux @ 754 revisions (last year's #1)
nymea:app @ 660 revisions
OpenStore@ 167 revisions
Strum Reader @ 155 revisions
Kaidan @ 146 revisions

Latest OpenStore Downloads

This estimates the number of devices in use.

Focal arm64 @ 456 downloads
Focal amd64 @ 118 downloads
Focal armhf @ 220 downloads
Focal total @ 794 downloads

Xenial arm64 @ 3,564 downloads
Xenial amd64 @ 95 downloads
Xenial armhf @ 2,431 downloads
Xenial total @ 6,090 downloads

Xenial + Focal total @ 6884 downloads

@thebird if someone makes a PR for the docs repo I'm sure that could get added.

@domubpkm webapps won't show in the new/update app list on the front page of the OpenStore app. But you can still find it if you browse or search for the app.

@cj_c here are some downloads for the latest versions of apps:

OpenStore v3.3.1

• armhf @ 6,064 downloads
• arm64 @ 5,593 downloads
• amd64 @ 72 downloads
• 11,729 downloads total

OpenStore v3.3.0

• armhf @ 8,307 downloads
• arm64 @ 7,465 downloads
• amd64 @ 65 downloads
• 15,837 downloads total

UT Tweak Tool v0.6.2

• armhf @ 6,077 downloads
• arm64 @ 7,899 downloads
• amd64 @ 97 downloads
• 14,073 downloads total

uNav v3.16

• all @ 7,534 downloads

@nero355 no, the OpenStore isn't tracking any of that data. However the push notification server might be able to give a better idea about that. Maybe @Flohack can post some.

Just for fun and since it's the end of the year, I pulled some stats from the OpenStore. Enjoy and happy New Year!

OpenStore Stats 2021 (Pulled 12/27/2021)

Apps Published and Updated

• 124 new apps published in 2021
• 265 apps updated in 2021

App Types

• 557 Apps
• 509 Web Apps
• 1066 Total Apps

App Architectures

• 827 apps are architecture agnostic
• 99 apps support amd64
• 167 apps support arm64
• 236 apps support armhf

Apps with the Most Thumbs Up Ratings

1. TELEports @ 112 thumbs up ratings
2. OpenStore @ 89 thumbs up ratings
3. Dekko 2 @ 76 thumbs up ratings
4. UT Tweak Tool @ 76 thumbs up ratings
5. uNav @ 53 thumbs up ratings

Apps with the Most Happy Ratings

1. TELEports @ 30 happy ratings
2. Dekko 2 @ 23 happy ratings
3. uNav @ 16 happy ratings
4. Music @ 15 happy ratings
5. Axolotl @ 15 happy ratings

App with Most Buggy Ratings

1. Camera @ 14 buggy ratings

Highly Rated Apps (Aggregate)

1. TELEports
2. OpenStore
3. Dekko 2
4. UT Tweak Tool
5. uNav

Apps with the Most Downloads (All Time & All Versions)

1. OpenStore @ 335,885 downloads
2. Calculator @ 236,693 downloads
3. Weather @ 149,621 downloads
4. Notes @ 145,275 downloads
5. Terminal @ 128,747 downloads

Apps with the Most Downloads - Non-Preinstalled Apps (All Time & All Versions)

1. UT Tweak Tool @ 85,990 downloads
2. uNav @ 81,279 downloads
3. TELEports @ 57,469 downloads
4. Pure Maps @ 55,965 downloads
5. Axolotl @ 44,654 downloads

Authors With the Most Apps (Not Including Web Apps)

1. Joan CiberSheep @ 28 apps
2. Brian Douglass @ 24 apps
3. Michael Zanetti @ 22 apps
4. Mateo Salta @ 19 apps
5. johandoe1960 @ 15 apps
6. Gregor Santner @ 15 apps
7. UBports @ 13 apps

Heaviest Clicks

1. SuperTux @ 170 MB
2. Stellarium @ 107 MB
3. Docviewer @ 104 MB
4. Pure Maps @ 100 MB
5. Dead Ascend @ 95 MB

Most Popular License

1. GNU GPL v3 @ 577 apps
2. Creative Commons - No Rights Reserved @ 116 apps
3. GNU LGPL v3 @ 94 apps
4. Proprietary @ 82 apps
5. MIT/X/Expat License @ 75 apps

Most Revisions

1. SuperTux @ 417 revisions
2. Nymea @ 402 revisions
3. ZK DATA @ 175 revisions
4. OpenStore @ 149 revisions
5. Kaidan @ 146 revisions

Hi @dremonon , it sounds like you got the app uploaded & published successfully, congrats! To answer your question, the .click file is the packaging format (similar to an apk or a deb) and you are correct that the .click file is what you need to upload for your app to be on the OpenStore.

@007fred50 I'm fairly certain it's not an issue with the OpenStore. Can you send me the click you are attempting to upload? As an admin I can see about uploading it on your behalf.

@007fred50 It looks like the name of your app is LockAppStore.007fred50 (from this: https://github.com/007fred50/lockAppStore/blob/main/manifest.json.in#L2 ) and the app you are trying to upload to on the OpenStore is just lockappstore. You'll either need to change the name of the app in your manifest.json or create a new entry on the OpenStore under the correct name.