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manland

To thanks OTA12, PinePhone and all this amazing community I want to offer a native qml client for spotify. A missing piece in my point of view for ubtouch. Lot of things need to be done before a 1.0 release (and to be add in open-store) but I need some feedback on what is already done.

So if you are adventurous, and have some time to accord to Futify please install it and give some love

Installation :

Go to https://gitlab.com/frenchutouch/futify
Search for the latest succefull pipeline, take your job arch and download click file in artifacts (arm64 will be my primary target as soon as my pinephone arrive)
Direct link to last armhf
Direct link to last arm64
Install it with ut-tweak
And launch it to enjoy

Please, open issues directly in repo (more easy to triage). If en issue or a feature is already added please add a on it like that I can more easily prioritize what should be done in first.

Please 2, open it with dark theme set with UT-Tweak (I love it like that... but some users prefer default theme and an issue already exist).

Some screenshots

Enjoy it!

manland

Futify is released on open-store

Thanks to all of you! And please test the new version, lot of improvements come with it

manland

Interesting debate here. Let me put my through in this discussion. But before who am I.

Hello i'm Romain a french dev which love UT (daily drive it since 1 year now). I'm also the mattermost mvp for version 5.11. And the author of the official plugin gitlab.

So I guess i'm legitime to talk about this subject

I think the main point of telegram vs mattermost is about open-source. Télégram is not open-source, mattermost is. Just like github vs gitlab.

But no, ubports fundation are not hosting it's own gitlab @Fla. We use the global instance gitlab.com which is not linked with a mattermost instance. So the effort to host one is necessary.

As all decisions I take every day, this is a table whith pro/cons:

Pro	Cons
open-source	need to be hosted
open api	no native app (they have react-native mobile app but react-native don't support ubtouch, they have eletron desktop app but electron don't support ubtouch )
self discoverable (channels about dev, QA...)	no publicly accessible (need to register in ubports instance)
notification possible	need dev in MM (not in ubtouch and the man power for our OS is already light)
lot of plugins to bridge	need lot of configuration
no spam bot	not more debate to add a captcha

As you can see, As much I love mattermost, we can't do all this stuff in short/medium time. Maybe in long, very long time

As an advice, this is how I considered moving to mattermost (but unfortunately no time now...):

buy a starter at 150$/year https://mattermost.com/pricing/
create all channels in it (general, dev, qa, os...)
bridge them to telegram (and why not matrix...) https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge
invite people to come

If after 1 year no one use this instance don't renew it and you have "only" loose 150$.

If you do that, and users use it, I'll dev a native mattermost app for UT (or at least a way to have notification from it )

manland

Hi here! I have some good news.

After lot of tests, hacks, implementations, delete, retry... I have find a way to produce a working version which does not compromise spotify data.

In the way to find a good solution, I had rewrite (almost completely) the app

Try it:

If you stop read here, please keep in mind only one thing : You need make futify unsuspendable in UTTT

armhf
arm64

Noticeable changes:

no more download song == only stream: song start immediately but you need make futify unsuspendable in UTTT
update to qt 5.12
update to golang module
use APL (adaptative page layout): no convergence yet but on the way
rework global menu and global navigation
default theme set to dark (can be changed in settings)
when a song can not be played an error song is played (configurable in settings)
display error in login page

Know bug:

media-hub don't display songs infos (hard to fix)
some times playlist stop working (error song was added to be notified of that)

Should be the last version before adding Futify to the open-store! Please stop me if you find a blocking bug!

manland

Yes user can grab song from spotify through futify... I have implemented a workaround and will put a version on open-store ASAP, but this year is so particular, you know... I mean, I make all I can today. And progress at my own rhythm.

And community have a version in gitlab ready to use (I use it everyday), yes there are some bugs but app works great.

Be patient futify will come

manland

@Fla Ok I find it Thank you, I have open a bug https://gitlab.com/frenchutouch/futify/-/issues/17 I fix it in the next build!

manland

@ernest I have finally sucessfully compiled an arm64 build \o/ Can you give it a try please? https://gitlab.com/frenchutouch/futify/-/jobs/573883662/artifacts/file/build/aarch64-linux-gnu/app/futify.frenchutouch_1.0.0_arm64.click If you can confirm it work I will do a PR to be able to build golang apps to arm64 ubtouch ^^

manland

After a quick search changing url should be very easy: https://github.com/search?q=org%3Aubports+"start.ubuntu.com"&type=Code and https://github.com/search?q=org%3Aubports+"ntp.ubuntu.com"&type=Code

I agree with @Keneda canonical can't be compared to google or apple
But I agree with @herr-b no need to continue to call these url if something else more appropriate exist.

@herr-b Can you open an issue with better alternative in https://github.com/ubports/ubuntu-touch/issues ? The community will really appreciate your iniciative because we are all here to make ut better

manland

@thousandtopics no you can download it from gitlab:

Just download click file and open it with openstore to install it

Enjoy!

manland

@Fla

A message in the front-end saying that the authentication failed would be useful

I think it will clear 90% of bugs The first hink in my todo list when I finish vpn things... ASAP

manland

@wgarcia I have a screen protector too... And the original cover case, it can "touch" the screen I think at the screen border... Maybe I should remove all of them, clean phone and try for some days...

manland

@gt I confirm I have the same bug on my volla. But I can't find a reliable way to reproduce it. Some times it's one time by day, some time 3 times in minute. I was suspecting video in browser, but I can reproduce in other situation... And sometimes I can watch lot of video in brother without bug...

Someone as a way to reproduce it every time?

manland

Confirm here too, lot of lomiri crash since latest RC for my volla phone. I can't open a bug, because I don't find a reliable way to reproduce it, someone can?

manland

Interesting debate here. Let me put my through in this discussion. But before who am I.

Hello i'm Romain a french dev which love UT (daily drive it since 1 year now). I'm also the mattermost mvp for version 5.11. And the author of the official plugin gitlab.

So I guess i'm legitime to talk about this subject

I think the main point of telegram vs mattermost is about open-source. Télégram is not open-source, mattermost is. Just like github vs gitlab.

But no, ubports fundation are not hosting it's own gitlab @Fla. We use the global instance gitlab.com which is not linked with a mattermost instance. So the effort to host one is necessary.

As all decisions I take every day, this is a table whith pro/cons:

Pro	Cons
open-source	need to be hosted
open api	no native app (they have react-native mobile app but react-native don't support ubtouch, they have eletron desktop app but electron don't support ubtouch )
self discoverable (channels about dev, QA...)	no publicly accessible (need to register in ubports instance)
notification possible	need dev in MM (not in ubtouch and the man power for our OS is already light)
lot of plugins to bridge	need lot of configuration
no spam bot	not more debate to add a captcha

As you can see, As much I love mattermost, we can't do all this stuff in short/medium time. Maybe in long, very long time

As an advice, this is how I considered moving to mattermost (but unfortunately no time now...):

buy a starter at 150$/year https://mattermost.com/pricing/
create all channels in it (general, dev, qa, os...)
bridge them to telegram (and why not matrix...) https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge
invite people to come

If after 1 year no one use this instance don't renew it and you have "only" loose 150$.

If you do that, and users use it, I'll dev a native mattermost app for UT (or at least a way to have notification from it )

manland

Just a litlle note to let you know Futify is now translatable . If you speak a second language, please consider adding it in futify before the next release

To do it you need to copy en_EN.ts from https://gitlab.com/frenchutouch/futify/-/tree/master/i18n rename into YOUR_CODE.ts and translate all target balise in it. Then make a merge-request. Tha's all

And please don't forget to add your in open-store for Futify! It have only 6 we need to increase that as soon as possible

manland

@magnargj Yes it's on my todo list! To increase priority upvote here

manland

Futify is released on open-store

Thanks to all of you! And please test the new version, lot of improvements come with it

manland

@anonymoustly "playing offline" is not implemented today, but I have a way to do it... Just need time! The data is not cached but it should be easy to add an in memory buffer, please open an issue in gitlab to follow this topic

@thierry83 "minutes" seems really to big. No song are pre-downloaded so the app does nothing when you click on play. Maybe the first song is really long to download. When you click on "play", futify create a playlist in media-hub and media-hub start to download first song, when there are some bytes of song, it play it.

manland

@migue5862 Hi, it's not a bug but a feature

You need to make futify unsuspendable in UTTT. Because in UT all apps are "stopped" when phone is sleeping (to economize battery). Download "UT tweak tool" in the store. Search futify in apps and select "unsuspendable"

About the sleep feature, can you explain a bit more what you have in mind please? Or better open a ticket in https://gitlab.com/frenchutouch/futify/-/issues if you can/want

manland

@thousandtopics no you can download it from gitlab:

Just download click file and open it with openstore to install it

Enjoy!

manland

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