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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

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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.

Lakotaubp

This post contains some more 20.04 info and link, thanks to Raoul for that. Hope you find it useful.

You will have seen the current 20.04 device list however if
you are interested in porting another halium 9+ phone to Focal check
the porting documentation: https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/porting/introduction/index.html

Also Ratchanan’s YouTube video: "Live coding, Experimental, UT 20.04: get Fairphone 4 "GSI" port to Focal's overlay store system". link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u_H-Kv6TY4.

The major tasks that still needs to be done:
• Ensure functionalities related to cellular network ◦ Start and receive voice calls.
◦ Send and accept SMS and MMS.
◦ Access internet through mobile data.
• Complete Bluetooth support for ports based on Android 9 +
• Port Contacts & Calendar subsystems PIM code to Focal
• Port core-apps to Focal (is at 25 % )

Future situation:
• Phase out Ubuntu Touch 16.04, phase in Ubuntu Touch 20.04
• Set Ubuntu Touch 16.04 into maintenance mode (instead of feature development mode)
• Make patch submission still possible for 16.04, but direct the main development focus to 20.04

Namespace renaming to remove Canonical dependency A large part of the update involved the renaming of code by replacing the vendor names Canonical, Ubuntu into UBports.
We are now at 98% Packaging for Debian before the Debian Bookworm freeze 12-01-2022 packaging has to be finished see the current status:
• Ayatana Indicators 100%
• Lomiri DE components 80%
• Ubuntu-Touch phone components 75%

Predicted is that we will have the first OTA-0 for Ubuntu-Touch based on Focal by Christmas.

If you are a developer or can assist with 20.04 please do let us know and we can put you in touch with the right people.

As you can see this is a very exciting time for UBports and Ubuntu Touch as Focal gets closer. I am sure we would all like say a big thank you to everyone involved in the development of 20.04 no matter how great or small.

Please remember that this also includes all of you that use Ubuntu Touch and UBports on a daily basis, make donations, participate on the Forum/TELEport groups or any of the many other ways of giving your time and effort to this great Community. Without you and your enthusiasm there would be little point to any of this, so a big thank you to all of you too

Links you could keep an eye on:
• https://gitlab.com/ubports/development/project-management/-/tree/master/dev-sync-notes
• https://gitlab.com/groups/ubports/development/-/roadmap?state=all&sort=start_date_asc&layout=WEEKS&timeframe_range_type=CURRENT_QUARTER&progress=WEIGHT&show_progress=true&show_milestones=true&milestones_type=ALL
https://gitlab.com/groups/ubports/-/epics/10

YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u_H-Kv6TY4)
[Live coding][Experimental] UT 20.04: get Fairphone 4 "GSI" port to Focal's overlay store system
Fairphone 4 will be the first "GSI" port to have overlay files in the new "overlay store" format. This should allow me to see if the system actually fits its purpose. As a bonus, we'll get Fairphone 4 on Ubuntu Touch 20.04. We'll be joined by other UBports developers who will help me "ask the right questions".

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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.

Lakotaubp

Welcome to this 20.04 Focal Fossa discusson area. As 20.04 gets closer and can be installed on a few devices already we thought you needed a dicussion area for all things Focal that would not get lost amid all the 16.04 stuff.
No doubt this area will grow and change in the weeks and months ahead as will other items on the Forum as Focal itself also developes. Please enjoy this area and Focal as it developes and moves to general use.
If you want to try an early version of Focal it is available from the installer by using settings and allowing hidden channels.
One last thing please only use this space for Focal anything else will be moved. Thanks.

Current Device

OnePlus 5 (Cheeseburger)
OnePlus 5T (Dumpling)
OnePlus 6 (enchilada)
OnePlus Nord 2 5G (denniz)
Xiaomi Poco M3 (citrus)
Xiaomi Mi A2 (jasmine_sprout)
Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 (lavender)
Google Pixel 3a (sargo)
Volla Phone (yggdrasil)
Volla Phone X (yggdrasilx)
Volla 22 (mimameid)
Sony Xperia X (suzu)
Fairphone 4 (FP4)
Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 (gta8)
Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge (hero2lte)
Samsung Galaxy S7 (herolte)
Jingpad (jingpad_a1)
Fxtec/pro1x (pro1x)

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@libremax As the Foundation is a charity we have to deal with the German government which can take time. The Finances for 2021 are signed off and done 2022 is underway now with the German government.
I don't see any issues with making these available as they become ready. I will look into it and post back here to start with.

Lakotaubp

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

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We all know you can get devices pre installed with Ubuntu touch. What if we had a welcome to Ubuntu Touch and UBports card inside the box or handed out when purchased in store? Well we are working on that idea.

Joan Cibersheep has already used their much valued skills to produce one great version

Can you come up with another? It must work on a business card scale 85*55 mm and if using colour keep in mind the number of colours. This will help on costs and help keep a clean clear image and message at that scale.

Lakotaubp

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

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This is the latest list of 20.04 devices that are available in the hidden channel of the UBports installer:

Xiaomi Poco M3 (citrus)
OnePlus 5 (Cheeseburger).
OnePlus 5T (Dumpling)
OnePlus 6 (enchilada)
Xiaomi Mi A2 (jasmine_sprout)
Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 (lavender)
Google Pixel 3a (sargo)
Volla Phone (yggdrasil)
Volla Phone X (yggdrasilx)
Sony Xperia X (suzu)
Fairphone 4 (soon - blocked by OTA 24 freeze)
Volla 22 (soon - blocked by OTA 24 freeze).

More info on Focal will follow shortly. Thanks to the Dev team for above list and continuing work on Focal.
Edit on 08/11/22: Forgot two devices people might be intrested in. They are now added.

Lakotaubp

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

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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!

Lakotaubp

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

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@DPITTI As you don't care about UT your comments are no longer required.

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@LinuxMasta420 Firstly welcome to the UBports forum. Secondly if you want to remain here and have people help you or follow your advice it is best not to insult people in anypost especially your first post.Please don't repeat it. Most of those you have criticized have been working on and developing Ubuntu Touch for sometime now and will have a greater knowledge than you may of how it works. Thirdly as mentioned by @dobey it is recommended to use apt only inside a Libertine container as it can wreck your system in some cases.

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Fed up of being in the dark? uTourch now working on 20.04.
Thanks @danfro

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I refer once again to what has already been stated by Florian

[Forwarded from Florian Leeber]
I am fully against any cooperation with Huawei sorry to say. As I said yesterday in the supergroup: No we wont ask for this. Huawei is in a very political discussion and the foundation needs to stay neutral. We will not endorse, recommend any or cooperate with companies that are under the impression of political influence.

I think that really puts an end to this thread so am going to lock it. There is always Off Topic if needed.

Lakotaubp

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

Lakotaubp

Totally agree with @alan_g . I would give more information about your proposed app. At the moment it seems you are only trying to find out "how many women" use UT "if any". Maybe a "would anyone be interested in a native version of -------- for UT" would work better. We are a wide and varied community here, assumptions are not required.

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