Current status of Organic Maps on Ubuntu Touch
Resolds of the correspondence between Alexander from Organic Maps and pparent
Well we are exchanging, but it turns out that their desktop Interface based on Qt is quite different from the one of Android/iOS and is more geared towards development for now and not adapted at all to mobile, so that's not ideal. ( At first I thought the Android app itself was based on Qt )
The good news is someone proposed to work on making this interface more user-friendly at least on desktop https://github.com/orgs/organicmaps/discussions/11805 , although I'm not sure how responsive it will be.
We also discussed about making a snap and a deb package. But anyway I think the best for now might be to wait and see what comes out of this new interface development and wait for Qt6 to be released on Ubuntu Touch, which we need to be able to do a port to the openstore.
Also what I have just asked him is weather their Qt app supports navigation. Because I cannot find it in the Qt desktop app ( but I don't have any GPS sensor on my desktop ). Because if there is no navigation in the Qt app, the use of this ported app might be quite limited, until they possibly develop this feature in Qt.
Also it turns out their Android app is in Java, using the Android API, so this app itself is not easily portable to Ubuntu Touch, only their Qt/Desktop app is.
By the way sorry I realize I forgot to reply. You can post the infos. By the way they told me that for now the Qt application does not include navigation as the Adroid App does, but that it could be added easily because navigation exists within their core C++ app.
I agreed to try to find time to create a deb package and then maybe a snap package for their app, this would allow to have a first preview inside Ubuntu Touch as well, on top of giving visibility to their Qt app.