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!

Welcome to another edition of the yearly OpenStore stats! I hope everyone had a wonderful 2023 and will have another wonderful year in 2024. Happy new year!

OpenStore Stats 2023 (Pull 12/31/2023)

Types

658 Apps (+54 this year)
544 Web Apps (-6 this year)
1202 Total Apps (+48 this year)

Architectures

895 apps are architecture agnostic
149 support amd64
246 support arm64
280 support armhf

Heaviest Clicks

Doc Viewer @ 197M
Dead Ascend @ 189M (last year's #1)
SuperTux @ 172 MB
Winebox @ 145M
Pocket VMs @ 128 MB

Published/Updated

79 new apps published in 2023
253 apps updated in 2023

Most Thumbs Up Ratings

TELEports @ 155 thumbs up ratings (last year's #1)
OpenStore @ 122 thumbs up ratings
UT Tweak Tool @ 102 thumbs up ratings
Dekko 2 @ 96 thumbs up ratings
Webber @ 75 thumbs up ratings

Most Happy Ratings

Dekko 2 @ 35 happy ratings
TELEports @ 34 happy ratings (last year's #1)
Axolotl @ 22 happy ratings
Music @ 20 happy ratings
uNav @ 19 happy ratings

Most Buggy Ratings

Axolotl @ 29 buggy ratings
Dekko 2 @ 19 buggy ratings
Camera @ 17 buggy ratings
SuperTux @ 17 buggy ratings
Teleports @ 15 buggy ratings

Most Highly Rated (Aggregate)

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

Most Downloads (All Time & All Versions)

OpenStore @ 420,996 downloads (last year's #1)
Calculator @ 270,179 downloads
Weather @ 183,971 downloads
Terminal @ 153,655 downloads
Notes @ 153,422 downloads

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

UT Tweak Tool @ 111,281 downloads (last year's #1)
uNav @ 101,565 downloads
TELEports @ 90,180 downloads
Pure Maps @ 74,007 downloads
Axolotl @ 60,663 downloads

Authors With the Most Apps (Apps Only)

Joan CiberSheep @ 32 apps (last year's #1)
Mateo Salta @ 32 apps
UBports @ 26 apps
Brian Douglass @ 21 apps
Lionel Duboeuf @ 19 apps
Gregor Santner @ 15 apps
johandoe1960 @ 15 apps

Most Popular License

GNU GPL v3 @ 626 apps (last year's #1)
Creative Commons - No Rights Reserved @ 103 apps
GNU LGPL v3 @ 98 apps
Proprietary @ 93 apps
MIT/X/Expat License @ 82 apps

Most Revisions

nymea:app @ 827 revisions
SuperTux @ 754 revisions (last year's #1)
OpenStore@ 179 revisions
Strum Reader @ 164 revisions
Kaidan @ 146 revisions

Latest OpenStore Downloads (Estimates the number of devices in use)

Focal arm64 @ 5,560 downloads
Focal amd64 @ 303 downloads
Focal armhf @ 612 downloads
Focal total @ 6,475 downloads

Xenial arm64 @ 8,834 downloads
Xenial amd64 @ 321 downloads
Xenial armhf @ 7,006 downloads
Xenial total @ 16,161 downloads

Xenial + Focal total @ 22,636 downloads

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!

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 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!

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 1/3/2023)

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

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!

This is awesome, thanks for starting this, I'd like to take this info and put it on docs.ubports.com after a few responses.

Bacon2d

Website: https://github.com/Bacon2D/Bacon2D/
License: MIT
Language: QML, JavaScript
Games made with Bacon2d: None (maybe?)

From the README: Bacon2D is a framework to ease 2D game development, providing ready-to-use QML components useful for creating compeling games.

It hasn't seen any development in about a year so it's likely that this project has been abandoned.

SDL

Website: https://www.libsdl.org/
License: zlib
Language: C, C++
Games made with SDL: Fishy Shooter, Balls 2, Tuxracer

From their website: Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform development library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware via OpenGL and Direct3D. It is used by video playback software, emulators, and popular games including Valve's award winning catalog and many Humble Bundle games.

SDL is a well established library for use in games. It has been used to make several games for Ubuntu Touch (both original and ports). Although most of the apps seem to only be built for vivid and don't yet have xenial updates.

Phaser

Website: https://phaser.io/
License: MIT
Language: JavaScript
Games made with Phaser: Fish Tank

From the README: Phaser is a fun, free and fast 2D game framework for making HTML5 games for desktop and mobile web browsers, supporting Canvas and WebGL rendering.

Phaser is a popular open source engine for creating games in JavaScript. The one downside is that you'll need to use the canvas rendering method because there are issues with OpenGL on some devices (like the Bq phones).

Other JavaScript game engines

Other than Phaser there a several other options for game engines in JavaScript, they should all pretty much work on Ubuntu Touch since they just rely on a browser.

@mymike what do you think about turning your demo into a template for clickable? It could be really great way to get more people creating/porting SDL apps.

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 .

@Craig I just came across this thread and tried out what you mentioned. You'll need to bundle sdl2 with your app to be able to use it (Ubuntu Touch doesn't have it preinstalled). But it looks like @zubozrout 's demo might be a good place to start for that.

uApp Explorer was down with an error and I brought it back up again. But it should probably be shutdown and direct everyone to either the OpenStore for click apps or the Snap store for snaps as it is a bit redundant now. To clear up some confusion, uApp Explorer doesn't host any of the clicks/snaps it provides. It showed apps from the Canonical app store back in the day (which is why you can find older apps that doen't exist on the OpenStore), the snap store, and eventually the OpenStore. I also want to note that while I'm now the main developer for the OpenStore it was all started by Michael Zanetti before UBports took over the development of Ubuntu Touch (so a huge thanks to him for getting it started!).

It's no longer available, but I think that's what the Scriptor app did: https://open-store.io/app/scriptor.newparadigmsoftware Maybe it can be forked and ported to the latest UT?

@PINE64 There is a group interested in building a companion app for AsteroidOS, so I see a lot of overlap. The matrix group is here: #UBports_AsteroidOS:matrix.org
@stefwe is doing most of the work there and I helped with the Pebble companion app (RockWork), so let us know if we can do some collaboration! I'm very excited for the PineTime and PinePhone!

I did some hacking today on Slaq to see if I could get it running on Ubuntu Touch. I was able to get it to run in clickable desktop, but it crashes almost immediately on a phone. I pushed up my changes to https://github.com/bhdouglass/slaq if any one wants to take a crack at it (warning, it's super hacky!). On the desktop I was able to login by manually setting the tokens in here: https://github.com/bhdouglass/slaq/blob/master/qml/dialogs/WebLoginDialog.qml#L80

If the python library you are wanting to import is not already installed on Ubuntu Touch then you won't be able to easily use it in your app. Something that other people have done is include these dependencies in their apps, you might be able to check out this script for some info: https://github.com/timsueberkrueb/ubuntu-hangups-lib/blob/ce33e2773bb4d3144ef50f4b4291e7d34ff2cad3/get_libs.py