I just wanna express deep respect and thank you to you core devs of UT ! You guys are doing amazing job ! I just installed latest update for my Nexus 5 and noticed that the Google logo that until now appeared during boot has been replaced by absolutely gorgeously designed boot screen of UT for Nexus 5 ! Smashing !

Before I submit this as a feature request or suggestion on GitLab I wanna make sure I'm not the only one who feels this way.

Am I the only one who feels that UT deserves "nicer" screen or notification for incoming calls ? What I mean is that at the moment when you get an incoming call you get this rather popup-like looking rectangle on top of the screen and bar to swipe left or right, but what about the rest of the screen ? Unused. Why ? Incoming calls can take up all screen with an avatar or photo of the caller. I'm aware this is a rather cosmetic issue and I'm all for "if it's not broken don't change it" but UT is such a wonderful mobile OS and it's a real shame that the look of incoming calls has been designed "in-rush" if you know what I mean. Please community share your thoughts. Are you happy with the design of how user is made aware of an incoming call ?

@dobey Agreed. The idea is to allow incoming call to take up all screen only when the user isn't doing anything with the phone (locked). But if the user is reading messages on Telegram or whatnot he would get just the pop-up.

I have so much respect for the core devs. I can see how much work they have done on the camera on Nexus. It is quite obvious that some of the manpower / brainpower is allocated on improving camera capabilities of the promoted devices.

One of the things I appreciate the most about UT mobile OS is that it comes with CLI which enables me to connect to my Raspberry Pi wirelessly and control it. Not 100% sure if iPhones or Androids have an app for this but on UT it comes by default.

@matteo Thank you for your reply. I'm keeping the bluetooth earphones but will be getting normal earphones with 3.5mm jack so I can use it with the Nexus. I really dislike the idea of switching back to iPhone or Android just 'coz they have the bluetooth working without a hiccup. I wish the bluetooth would be on the table of core devs.

I'm publishing new app on Google Play and App Store. The app
serves primarily women. I think this post is unnecessary but
I don't wanna be making assumptions. I may be wrong about this. Can you give me a feedback on how many women are using Ubuntu Touch ? If I get enough feedback I'll consider to support UT phones natively.

Instead of commenting "I'm a woman using Ubuntu Touch"
you can simply hit the upvote button and I'll know number of
women in UT community.

Thank you.

Are there any plans to make support for Firefox browser for UT ? Or even to make native support for it ? It kinda make sense since all Linux distros are shipped with Firefox by default. UT is being shipped with Morph browser which I never heard of before. It works though. No bugs so far.

@3arn0wl I'm with you on this. Anyone new to UT gets little bit put off by having Google logo on splash screen when they reboot or run on the phone. No more now. The phone is now truly Google-free.

Hi all,

I'd like to ask you about Telegram app for UT. In comparison with iPhones it looks like Telegram on UT is lacking a lot of features. It appears rather outdated. Making videocalls being just one. How's the development of this app looks like on UT ? Is there any way of knowing if there's a group of enthusiasts / coders who are trying to improve Telegram for UT ?

Yep, that was it. I wiped the phone and then downgraded. Now I'm gonna follow the tut and will report back. Thank you, Stefano, for your support.

@trwidick
I can confirm that this asset error isn't showing up every time.
I'm now clearing the cache to see if it's really a cached error.
Will report back.

@capsia

Hi,
I'm posting this as a result of my testing. I don't know
if other users of Xperia X F5121 and Meizu 5 Pro can
confirm:

It appears that phones don't always return coordinates
of your location (with location toggled on of course)
to uNav app.

Are there any work in progress / plans for this port ?
What has been done on this port so far is amazing ! I'd like
to know if the port can expect any updates such as fingerprint
scanner working.

Thanks in advance for feedback.

Hi,
I was just browsing through the UBports official website
when I clicked on "Join Us" section and I got an error:

Apparently some of your javascript files aren't fetching
as they should.

You take it from here.

I'm publishing new app on Google Play and App Store. The app
serves primarily women. I think this post is unnecessary but
I don't wanna be making assumptions. I may be wrong about this. Can you give me a feedback on how many women are using Ubuntu Touch ? If I get enough feedback I'll consider to support UT phones natively.

Instead of commenting "I'm a woman using Ubuntu Touch"
you can simply hit the upvote button and I'll know number of
women in UT community.

Thank you.

@keneda
Hi and thank you for replying. I'm happy to read that there's
already project that is addressing this.
I guess way too many people were annoyed about this.
I'm not surprised that there are technical drawbacks. Like you
mentioned apps that heavily depend on Google services to be running in the background will simply not work. Understandably.
I can't wait the day when I'll be able to ditch Android completely.

To me it makes no sense to be running Ubuntu on my computers
but having Android on my phone.

I used to have Meizu 5 PRO with UT running on it and I absolutely loved it ! Simply gorgeous !

Only disadvantage I personally suffered from was I couldn't run apps released by the government.

Many Thanks !

Hi community,
first forgive my technical ignorance in this regard but is there a way to make Android apps to be "runnable" on UT phones in similar way like you can run Windows programs through Wine on Linux ?

I live in the UK and government is sometimes releasing apps
where people can get things done without calling hotlines.
You've guessed it, only iOS and Androids are supported.
Government's developers don't care about UT phones.

Such solution would be a killer solution in my opinion. To make
it worthwhile I would suggest to make it subscription-based (charge users what you pay for a coffee in Starbucks)
because even though I admire open source mentality it's time
and energy that is spent on developing solution.

Essentially I'm asking if it's technically possible to make a solution that would allow run .apk files on UT ?

How many of us have to carry around Android even though Linux "is in our hearts" ?

Sorry for the sentiment and thanks for reading the whole thing.

I'm using Meizu 5 as a daily driver. I can confirm there has been a progress. Before the update I could listen to music flawlessly but making phone calls was impossible. After following instructions and installed the update, phone call won't cut off anymore after few secs but the quality of voice of the caller still needs work. It was cutting up a lot. I just tried to listen to my voicemail messages and I could barely understand what the caller was telling me. Too much cutting up. Pleasant surprise was when I finally hung up music player resumed playing where it left off. Nice one !

So yeah I could see the progress but the quality of voice transmitted needs extra work.

Fingerprint scanner isn't mentioned in the post. Android version comes with fingerprint scanner. Does it work under UT as well ?