@mymike and others: Creating a clickable template is as simple as providing a git repository with an app that showcases the use case. If someone would like to provide some (it looks like you guys already have something running), simply reply on the feature request: https://gitlab.com/clickable/clickable/issues/122

@adams Ubuntu Touch is a bit more than just Ubuntu + Unity8. Until now Ubuntu Touch has only be build for Android phones, so the partition layout is different (https://forums.ubports.com/topic/1296/partition-layout). The root file system is read-only, there is app confinement, we access the hardware via libhybris (to be compatible with Android drivers) and so on (there are 400 UBports repos on github https://github.com/ubports).

In my opinion, as a first step it would already be nice to have raspy images with Ubuntu+Unity8 running for testing. Next step would probably be what Rodney says.

@mymike About the dependency problems see https://github.com/ubports/crossbuilder/issues/4. There are some hints that might help you with some of the dependencies and you might ask there for help with solving the rest of them.

@aury88 Lets bring Ubuntu Touch to the PiPhone!

I don't know him. But please just contact him, if he might be interested!

Thanks @alan_g for your feedback. Very appreciated.

@3arn0wl said in Construct a real phone:

Purism's Librem 5 developer's SBC

Could you explain this more or give us a link?

@flohack additionally to the root partition, running the kernel? So we would have two partitions, an ubuntu root / and a /mnt/data? What are system.img and ubuntu.img for? Where does the read-only UT rootfs live (one /?) and where the writable home?

Do you already have tested Ubuntu on a Raspberry Pi? I remember using Ubuntu Mate on a Raspberry Pi 2, which was not very performant, but fairly usable. I wonder how it would be with Unity8 and if there would be a big difference in performance between Raspy 2 and 3.

I would love to see a video like that one for the phone!