Hello everyone. Just so everyone knows: I hereby officially declare Ubuntu Touch to be, by far, the most usable OS with your nose. The swipe gestures make it a breeze to operate. Thank you.

I've been thinking - I have a spare FP2 on my hands I don't plan on using anytime soon. I understand anbox is now based on treble and won't run on anything under Halium 9. There's a Halium 7 build for FP2. Wouldn't that be a good testing device to try and port anbox to Halium 7 ? What I'm trying to say is I'm willing to send this FP2 to Erfan it this can help the majority of UT users with Halium 7.

@amy The core team is working on moving to 20.04 since quite a long time. This is heavy work, but yes, my friend, that's the plan.

Hello all. Got a reply from plantnet:

"Thank you for contacting us. This is interesting. I doubt we'll have the resources to make a native Ubuntu Touch app (though it seems we could just do a JS/PWA app), the team is very small.
We have a meeting to talk about open source in two weeks, can you contact us after?
We also have an API for only identifying plants (my.plantnet.org) which could be use by the open source community to build an app on top of it, though it will lack a lot of community related functions from Pl@ntnet."

Pretty straightforward, right ? I'll try and get to them in two weeks then, but it seems they're not hostile to the idea !
Btw what they call "community functions" are pretty useful - it allows rating, reviewing of your observations by peers and botanists

@cliffcoggin I am also donating. But i can't help but think this is virtue-signaling and I wish I could have avoided that - now I feel compelled to give my opinion. You haven't got straightforward answers because the answer is not straightforward. Just like @Moem I'd be glad to pay for UT. But I also believe it would crush the future of the OS if it was "mandatory". It would doom it forever. I've heard numerous times on this forum that we're trying to build a system that is NOT meant for an "ethical phone" - toting elite but rather for everyone wanting to escape mass surveillance, for one. Making UT paid-for would effectively do that. And for an open source project, losing users mean losing devs in the long run. I see that the project , and the separate dev team that compose it are in dire need of money. But making UT a service you pay for is not the way to fix this I believe. Infrastructure costs have to be able to rely on a steady flow of cash and there's no getting around a donation system. Maybe we do need to make the monthly goals more visible. It would certainly help. Now for the apps, just look at what happened with waydroid: people were hoping that sth could be made to work and paid what was needed. Some of these people most likely never donated for other UT aspects. If UT became paid-for, we might get some sort of expensive "secure phone" like some security companies are selling - only less reliable, and without the flexibility of a community that drive the OS depending on each members' separate interests.

Hello good people ! I wanted to put that into support a while ago but I thought it would eventually go away or something. Here's the thing: when someone ends a call on me, or their phone is unreachable, the dual beep that ensues never fails to pierce my eardrum, and most likely disturb wild fauna in a mile radius ^^ it's unbelievably loud, and I can't find no option to change that. The same happens for a dual call, which prevents me from hearing the actual conversation. Any ideas ? FP2 stable

@domubpkm there is one, and it works fantastically: Music Recognition

@dobey I have extensively used ffmpeg for livestreaming, and with the correct flags, you can force hardware decoding on some architectures, and it drastically decreases cpu usage

@kugiigi Still worth it for anyone out there not having a halium 9 device...

I really, really don't understand why is this thread still going on. There IS an app, it works flawlessly, and once you've filled in your keys, all it asks indeed is microphone access. Now if shazaam doesn't ask you fill anything, it's probably because it uploads, uses and sell all the information it deems interesting about your person. Having different apps doing more or less the same thing is what results in the absolute clusterfuck that is the IOS appstore for example, making it pretty hard to find anything, unless you know precisely what you're looking for. And finally, I use and like the translate app, but I really don't think an app relying on a mirror of a google api is sth to look forward to.

@doniks I might be willing to do that, both in french and english. I reckon the best way to go about it would be to make a nice pdf file with a summary, and then have someone fit the file in the website (or rather make it a dynamic webpage) if you like it. You don't want me to touch html code

Anbox integration ! YOU DID IT ! I'm so happy

@peter-gamma UT does not use Gnome, and does not use Wayland neither, so this cannot work in any way. On another hand, UT should start using Wayland as soon as it's based on Ubuntu 20.04 - then, maybe keep that link for future reference

@rocket2nfinity oh man i'd love this to happen but it most probably won't. Even getting a swype keyboard to run on an open source version of android (lineageos and so on) is close to impossible since Swype has been discontinued and using gboard implies copying proprietary libraries from gapps which generally results in an unstable mess if anything... So to think it could be "ported" seems unrealistic. There might be a need for an open source new swype keyboard but I don't see this happening in the near future.

@developerbayman If you install libertine-tweak-tool, you can enable a tool called "lish" (libertine shell) - just type lish (or lirsh for root access) and then you may execute commands from inside the container. It's better than using xterm, it's better than using convoluted command lines - that's what I always use and I believe that's whats you're asking for.

@flohack i see your point, but I think we're talking about a different thing here. Maybe the documentation is indeed lacking as I see some prospective devs on this forum that struggle to find the info they need - but it's another matter totally. The issue here is what we show to people who want to know the daily things they can do with their os, and how they can do it. Since we, as users, have that knowledge, I don't see what prevents us from sharing that very much non-technical knowledge - the same way we would if we had to display UT possibilities to a friend or a relative

Hello all ! Been a while since I posted on this forum since I got to the point where - well ! UT does the trick for me ^^ But after years of usage, there's ONE thing that keeps driving me mad. The more I install apps, the less I can find them. Add to this the relics of Waydroid uninstalled apps and you're in for a burning hell of scrolling everytime you want to do sth slightly unusual (that is, sth that's not a favourite in the launcher). Being able to group apps would not be redondant to the launcher. It would just highlight its potential - two different ways of accessing apps. It doesn't have to look like android either - we could somewhat keep the scope feeling - like dragging a group to the right.... I don't know.
I know this is a recurrent topic (recurrent ? Is that a word ?) but I felt it needed its own topic, since I'm well aware it's a complicated thing to implement - I just don't want this undoubtedly important matter to be forgotten. Neither launcher modular nor home apps do it - actually home is close to sth useful in that respect, with app "widgets" you can select for home screen - but only a select few.
So, yeah, just sayin' ^^ Will 20.04 make it easier to implement ? Anyway, cheers, and my best feelings to the great people in the project.

Hey folks ! I had a couple UT phones before but Pixel 3a works so good I had no idea this was actually a thing with UT ^^ Annoying little bug though: fingerprint reader, while working, does so very inconsistently. When it works, it works. But sometimes - and I can't figure out the pattern here - only my code will unlock the phone. I would then unlock it, re-lock it, and then, fingerprint reader works. Any idea why ? Cheers and long life to anyone contributing to this awesome OS !

@maagalie Hey ! I also have free mobile and mms work for me. You have to know that if someone sends you a mms while your cellular data is off, you won't receive anything (yet). Make sure before you change APN settings that the issue persists with cellular data on. I have a fairphone 2 so I don't know for the volla, but for me, free mobile apn settings where right from the start.

@saveurlinux i have a pixel 3 a and usually the first fix after reboot (or more commonly a restart of unity, because of plane mode locking cell data) is pretty fast. Sometimes, though it takes ages. An actual reboot fixes that. And by actual I mean sometimes it just restarts unity instead of rebooting. Then reboot for real.