A big thank you, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all involved in keeping this OS going for the the last few months and those who use it where ever you are. Looking forward to an exciting Ubports future.

As you will have noticed the UBports Writers Group have been busy little Bees lately. With tutorials rolling out on many important tools and apps and no doubt more to follow. With that in mind you will find the links to all the tutorials issued so far here. Thanks again to the Ubports Writers Group, The App Cats and everyone else involved in the production of these tutorials.

Permissions and App Confonements
https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blogs-news-1/post/permissions-and-apps-confinement-3716
Introduction to TELEports
https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blogs-news-1/post/introduction-to-teleports-3714
Introduction To Clickable
https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/introduction-to-clickable-280
How To Setup Ubuntu Touch On Raspberry pi 3B +
https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/raspberry-pi-266
Why Ubuntu Touch Matters(online security)
https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/why-i-am-fan-of-ubuntu-touch-os-201
https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/internet-and-some-precautions-we-can-take-205
https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/ubuntu-touch-safety-architecture-208

FluffyChat
https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/fluffychat-188
Ubuntu Touch OS
https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/ubuntu-touch-just-another-phone-os-not-at-all-162
Nextcloud
https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/secure-cloud-storage-146
Matrix
https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/secure-ip-communication-144
Keyboard
https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/ubuntu-touch-on-screen-keyboard-osk-140
Lock Screen
https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/ubuntu-touch-lock-screen-137
Using VPN
https://ubports.com/blog/ubport-blog-1/post/using-vpn-in-ubuntu-touch-132
VPN Round 2
https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/vpn-on-ubuntu-touch-178
uWriter
https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/uwriter-129
Terminal Parts 1-4
https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/terminal-chapter-1-113
https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/terminal-chapter-2-117
https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/terminal-chapter-3-124
https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/terminal-chapter-4-125
UT tweakTool
https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/ut-tweak-tool-109
Logviewer
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/1099/logviewer-review
Bug Reports
https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/github-106

Please note that from today any post in the Support section asking about New device ABC will be moved to Off Topic and locked. The Support section is for just that, support for issues with current devices and apps.

The list of current devices can be found here https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/ and https://forums.ubports.com/category/46/devices an old list of potential devices is here https://pad.ubports.com/p/r.fbf463250adef36ec3bc33a7f5f6be93

If you are interested in creating a port please read this https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/porting/introduction.html and have a look at the Porting section of the forum https://forums.ubports.com/category/33/porting.

Thank you for your understanding.

UBports News Channel, [13.05.18 15:39]
Are you sad that you missed Jan Sprinz' talk on UBports at Ubucon Europe 2018?
Then rejoice!
The fantastic people from NerdZoom (a German Tech Blog, audiocast, and youtube channel specializing in GNU/Linux) were present and recorded a nice video of the talk especially for you.
Go check the NerdZoom coverage of this talk: https://www.nerdzoom.de/one-year-after-the-world-ended-ubuntu-touch-today/

#UBports #UbuntuTouch #UbuconEU18 #Ubuntu #NerdZoom

UBports News Channel, [24.04.18 16:15]
UBPORTS BIG ANNOUNCEMENT

Purism and UBports officially collaborate to offer Ubuntu Touch on Librem 5

https://puri.sm/posts/ubports-ubuntu-touch-on-librem5-collaboration/

#ubports

UBports News Channel, [19.09.18 15:50]
Attention UBports Community!

As UBports quickly grows, we need to know the clear answer to the question "Who is our audience?" so that we can develop our community and Ubuntu Touch correctly. Thankfully Querida, a member of UBports Marketing, has decided to do her International Business and Languages Bachelor thesis on this very topic for her graduation semester. So with your help we can all benefit from her hard work!

We ask you to kindly take about 5 minutes of your time to fill out this survey.
http://fontysfeht.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1AgS42j1S950aGN

To thank you for your participation, we'll be sure to publish the detailed results of this survey on the forum so you, too, can know more about your UBports Community.

Thank you for your help, and Querida thank you too!

This post is a copy of Marius' original post from here https://forums.ubports.com/topic/4965/the-road-map-explained We thought it might also be of use here.

I get this question a lot, why focus on making Lomiri compatible with upstream components and why are you helping getting Lomiri into different distros? Why not focus on Ubuntu Touch?
Why focus on making UbuntuTouch better? Why not make device X better right now!

And for many this choice of development direction might sound weird, and I get that, it's hard to know this if you’re not a developer working on these components. So i’ll try to explain why this is the best way for us to keep going.

The fact is that, focus on making Lomiri compatible with upstream components and making it possible for Lomiri to enter more distros will make Ubuntu Touch better, and much much better in the long run. This is a long term plan to make the Lomiri stack much better.

Doing upstream work greatly improves the support to all the components we heavenly depend on, so for us to upgrade our stack (like Bluez, NetworkManager, ofono and MANY others) we really need to make our source both buildable, usable and comparable with upstream non ubuntu patched components, as we cant maintain components like canonical did, so we really need to depend on upstream fixes. and to be honest this is better then what canonical did, as you can see what state we are in due to that. A great example is bluez, we are way behind upstream here, this is mostly due to the xenial base that again is due to our stack depending on xenial specific patches that makes it impossible to just upgrade base or even bluez without doing heavy porting.

Yes there will be a period where fixes for devices won't be prioritized, but for us to fix those now and later need to fix them all over again because we just made our own little fork is a sure death for us. We need to make a sustainable road head of us and not keep working on our little buble. This has been an issue with ubuntu touch from the beginning, it was only canonical doing the work with no outside contributors, this is something we really want to avoid. We need to make Lomiri a Linux desktop environment not only a Ubuntu Touch one.

Yes devices will be prioritized, but we need to follow upstream and get up to speed with all the great fixes we simply can't use.

Once this work is done, we don't need to worry about it anymore, as keeping up with upstream will be so much easier. Most of the work is to replace the ubuntu only patches that really do not solve anything other than making it much harder for us to upgrade our base to for example 20.04 or even pull in never fixes that will fix many of our issues.

But most important of all, when we are fully compatible, we will get more distro supported, this in turn will have many more developers looking and trying out Lomiri. This will greatly improve the system as we will get more contributions! An example for this is Luca from pmOS, he has done amazing work that we all enjoy today. And we need more developers like Luca to make Lomiri more awesome! We need to get out of our little Ubuntu Touch bubble and work with the huge Linux community, this will make Ubuntu Touch SHINE

Once more a very big Thank You to everyone who took the time and effort to enter their slogans for the competition. Yumi's representatives have decided you should have the final say on the winners. There is a short list for you to choose from so please use the link below to vote on your favourites.

https://ubports.com/r/wA6/m/59342

UBports News Channel, [08.06.18 21:28]
Is your on-screen keyboard underperforming?

Well add some fuel to its fire with this brand new Ubuntu Touch tutorial about the thing you didn't think needed a tutorial:

The Ubuntu Touch On-Screen Keyboard (OSK)

https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/ubuntu-touch-on-screen-keyboard-osk-140

Thanks to the UBports Writers group!

#ubuntutouch #ubuntu #ubports

UBports News Channel, [02.10.18 01:03]
Hey there, UBports! We just heard a little secret...

...Someone said that Linphone has just landed in the Open Store.
It's Ubuntu Touch's very first dedicated SIP app which allows VOIP calling - now!
In fact, you can even use it to make regular telephone calls, too!

You can create a free account -right in the app - and start calling other Ubuntu Touch users and anyone else who can use the famous Linphone software and services.

Join the party and keep up the good work!

Special thanks to @cibersheep and @bhdouglass for all the endless hours of work on this app.

https://open-store.io/app/linphone.cibersheep

Did you miss this when published on the News Channel then subscribe here https://t.me/ubports_news

#UBports #UbuntuTouch #AppDev

@arubislander UTTT uses the same four digit pin as the OS though. I think they are looking for a completely sparate pass code to install apps.
I am at a bit of a loss as to why they want to work that way but it's not my phone at the end of the day.

@emphrath
Does anything in here help https://forums.ubports.com/topic/2008/the-ubports-tutorial-links-collection

@phiibuntu That should be the case. I would try again if not the blog also contains instructions on reporting issues.

@phiibuntu The OTA will roll out accross device over the coming days so it may be that your device has not yet got the update please see https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-news-1/post/ubuntu-touch-ota-23-release-3855 for full details or over an adb shell run
sudo system-image-cli -v -p 0 --progress dots

again full details in the blog

The OTA can take upto a week to roll out to all devices but which method are you trying? system updates or

sudo system-image-cli -v -p 0 --progress dots

The update on an existing stable system will be allocated in a random way to devices. Please see the blog https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-news-1/post/ubuntu-touch-ota-23-release-3855

@3t_ed Yes as you just stated use the installer and DO NOT select the wipe user data option and all should be ok. I have used this on a regular basis to fix things when they go bang.

@naizena Gmail webapp in the OpenStore also still work.

@ricardo65 No what you need is in this post https://forums.ubports.com/topic/5907/open-ubuntu-touch-to-all-android-applications/115 instructions on how to install MicroG. The details are towards the bottom of the main post.

@lex0r You could also try asking here https://t.me/WelcomePlus our install group

@negations It's no trouble it is what we do and are here for. Enjoy UT