Posts made by dobey

@edwaleni You must first flash the OEM Ubuntu Edition image to the device, so that it has the proper partitioning and identifier. The instructions in the installer should state this, I think.

@marek_python said in Android apps converter. Crazy talk ?:

Essentially I'm asking if it's technically possible to make a solution that would allow run .apk files on UT ?

The only possibility for this is to improve Anbox. Even then, many apps will still be problematic. If the apps are not open source, then there will basically be no way to take them and make native UT versions instead.

How many of us have to carry around Android even though Linux "is in our hearts" ?

Good news! Android is still Linux. So your heart shouldn't have to suffer too much.

@flohack We also install the UT image in the data partition, which gets wipe when locking the phone, so it will no longer even boot even if we did have signed stuff. Also also, many newer phones will actually brick if you try to lock the bootloader again, as it will refuse to boot the signed image and there won't be anyway to unlock again.

@prog-amateur said in Hardware acceleration:

that Hardware video playback is ticked in

Yes, this doesn't have anything to do with SoC really. There is a problem with playing back video content in mediaplayer-app, which relies on the hardware decoding to be able to play H264 and other content, on Nexus 5. This is an issue in the Android HAL part I guess, and nobody has figured out the exact cause yet. The Halium 7.1 images for Nexus 5 no longer have the issue though. They are still in testing. I think the OnePlus 1 is already based on Halium builds, and so this already works there. The Nexus 5 is currently not using Halium as a base, but is using the older porting method. Some things are magically fixed in switching to Halium, though some other things also magically no longer work.

What do you mean by widgets ? Is the OS animations like carousel, or just simple widgets such as clock widget ?

Then general components that make up the user interface. Qt/QML is rendering most things on the GPU already.

You say that QtWebEngine is not accelerated, (and in another thread that it was due to Chromium which can't handle libhybris). Is QtWebEngine theorically capable for that for Android devices (could it be achieve one day) or only pure Linux phones like Pinephone can take benefit of this feature ?

Yes, there is no GPU acceleration of QtWebEngine, as it's not built to use libhybris, and targets traditional GNU/Linux rather than GNU/Linux running on top of Android. The audio/video playback in it also does not support hardware decoding, because it doesn't use the standard QtMultimedia things for this, nor libhybris. Likewise, this is also why camera doesn't work for web, on Android based devices. All of this except for hardware decoding should already work on Pinephone.

@prog-amateur said in Hardware acceleration:

But Oneplus One supports hardware acceleration, and Nexus 5 not.

Can you elaborate what you mean by hardware acceleration here? QtWebEngine is not accelerated on either device. Both have hardware accelerated rendering of native widgets though.

@domubpkm said in Need testers Home Screen for Ubuntu Touch:

Please @dobey , can you see this ?

Yes, as mentioned, there is an open issue. There seems to be some problem with the content-hub stuff there, and I haven't been able to fully debug and find the problem exactly yet. There is an in-progress branch which fixes some of the warnings printed in the log, but it doesn't seem to solve the image loading issue.

@siwuarek If the kernel is enabled and you are on devel channel, simply run anbox-tool install in the terminal.

@rik said in VoLTE and 3G shutdowns:

Does UT have nmcli available? I am not even sure....

Yes, but it does not have mmcli which is for modem-manager, as UT does not use it. I don't know what the equivalent command to issue an arbitrary AT command to the modem would be for ofono, which UT uses.

@rik I think that's using phosh and modemmanager, which apparently has VoLTE working on pinephone already. Android based devices are different though.

@markatrafik Try to install the tls-padding package in the container, with libertine-container-manager install-package -p tls-padding -i <container_id>

@markatrafik Well that is coincidence then, because that sqlite file has nothing to do with what is shown in the app drawer.

@markatrafik This has nothing to do with what is shown in the app drawer. You probably simply needed to refresh the drawer, which you can do by pulling down from the top.

What device is this on?

@manchee1017 This thread is about the possibility of getting KaiOS apps running on UT, and not about replacing the OS on devices which shipped with KaiOS.

@keneda I guess that PureOS is "compliant" if they don't include the linux-firmware package by default, but the phone hardware itself wouldn't comply, because of the modem. AFAIK, the Bluetooth/WiFi support in Librem 5 is also a bit lacking because Purism want to only use BT/WiFi in their systems, which doesn't require binary firmware blob, which the newer Atheros chips that support newer Bluetooth and WiFi versions, do.

@keneda Ubuntu Touch still requires binary blobs to work, whether that's on Android devices, or ones that work on mainline. One of the core FSF complaints about Debian/Ubuntu is the use of linux-firmware which includes these redistributable firmware blobs which are necessary for the operation of certain hardware, and which the kernel loads into the hardware during initialization.

@povoq I don't think Gecko (now Servo) would necessarily be needed, assuming that any APIs used by these HTML5 apps exists in QtWebengine, or could be implemented in or around it.

If they won't even list Debian and Ubuntu on https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.en.html I'm pretty sure we won't be seeing Ubuntu Touch listed either.

Given recent events and the dwindling relevance of the FSF over the last decade or more, I'd say we should just steer clear of anything involving the FSF, and if we want to get involved with a similar organization, to look at working with https://sfconservancy.org instead.

@iomassetti It sounds like the problem is perhaps not with Ubuntu Touch, but the configuration on your WiFi router or something.

@povoq This only works for streaming the video though, no? You can't interact with the screen by dragging windows, or adjust focus and type, directly in the browser, right?