@dobey
that would explain what I've seen, thanks for the info. And explains why uNav, which uses some oxide stuff under a qml interface, has copy+paste.

Yes, this is a major shortcoming of the webapp thing. They are very isolated (like independent apps as far as I can tell), despite basically just being the web browser.

I prefer to useweb apps as they have better persistance through multi-tasking (tabs get dumped from memory quite aggressively, meaning a lot of reloading pages), but find it annoying that copy-pate doesn't work all the time. Generaly this means opening said page in the browser, signing in a second time, and pasting.

This works for forum conversations, but I see how the current situation wouldn't work for long random passwords. You either need copy+paste for webapps, or signin persistence between webapps and browser.

edit
upon further investigation, it seems only webapps based on the ogrs container don't have clipboard access, the simplest ones do have access.

But apps like Dekko do not...

I'm curious if there's a reason to use a web server vs a symlink to the storage location...

ie.
I symlinked foxtrotgps to download to ~/Downloads/maps
and symlinked uNav to read from ~/Downloads/maps/OSM

This seems simpler with no overhead to me, but I've no idea what the advantages of a tile server might be.

Glad to hear documentation was in the plan

@AppLee has a good list, whereas I don't even know enough to have come up with such a list.

Add documentation to the ubports docs!

UBports Docs

Videos and podcasts are flashy, but good documentation is invaluable.

I recently found that foxtrotgps runs fine in a Libertine shell, and more importantly the files are compatible with uNav.

This can all be done on the phone, or just using foxtrot on a pc.

I think the better question is why does uNav not cache downloaded tiles? If that happened most users would be fine downloading tiles on-the-go; the current arrangement eats mobile data unnecessarily.

I wish you success!

I don't understand what was done to work around this per that discussion, so I started this thread in hopes someone might be able to explain it better

@advocatux I was planning to comment on that issue as it seems to have stalled.

It seems odd to me that the library is being called at all on phones that don't have it, makes me think the problem is the mir library. But that is way over my head.

So the other day I was using the location service and as has happened before the location system froze. However this time I had time to check the log app and noticed an odd entry:

loading module 'libubuntu_application_api_touch_mirclient.so.3.0.0'
library "/vendor/lib/egl/libGLESv2S3D_adreno.so" not found

for the record the last two calls for location in that log both failed with the applications saying something about the 'gps system is unavailable'

I dug about and found this issue:
https://github.com/ubports/ubuntu-touch/issues/352

For the heck of it I found a copy of the library on the webs, but Windows user me soon ran into the fact that I cannot edit any of the filesystems in question. So as I can figure the file in question is only shipped with adreno305 devices (not many it seems) yet if I type test_hwcomposer on my 1+1 or nexus5 I get the same failure message about the missing library when neither of these devices ship with it (I know, I downloaded factory images and extracted them).

Is there an easy way to symlink to the file for testing? Or would this require a custom build of the android subsystem? Or am I barking up the wrong tree?