@ubportsnews (decided to try and write a small app news brief) App News roundup:

• The Godot games engine has seen a lot of exciting progress https://gitlab.com/abmyii/ubports-godot Thank you to abmyii and check out the Godot 3d test from pavelprosto94 https://github.com/pavelprosto94/godot_3d_test/ This test shows how well our devices preform with various 3d graphics, and allows a quick way to test out godot games: just hack your .pck file into this app and see if your godot game will run on UT, games on ut using the engine include: Bug Bounty! from Marquis Kurt, Liner, and Circle Jump. Check out this exciting way to bring games to UT!

• Corona app: scan and display EU COVID related certificates.

• And (if i can put in something I ported over) Check out the point and click adventure game Dead Ascend, Made opensource from Larpon with his qak (qml aid kit, components useful for 2d game making)

@capsia well, the code is there for multi user, just not enabled yet, so we do want to be careful to theme/move existing things. eventually we will need some way of making a fake extra account to test.

Cool, I played with the intensity so it didn't wash out the icon

I rather like the filemanager, but would like to see it move away from the old humanity icon set, and even the orange folder theme. I like the more modern style that sam hewitt https://snwh.org/suru has made, although for the purposes of ubuntu touch we could modify the color away from orange.

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@opaijavai yes technically possible - but would need some code changes for it to be a feature to be incorporated.

• the immediate user convenience is nice and a feature we want, open drawer - tap camera - take picture

1. for a app to be launched without password, we would want the option for it to be enabled/disabled by the user
2. The camera app also allows access to viewing pictures and deleting pictures - for this app to be launched without password it would have to be a some kind of 'take pictures only' mode

All this code would need to be created, although not impossible - and not without an example - just look at the 'Emergency calls' feature - it opens the dialer - but in a mode that only has basic call functionality.

App roundup:

Some cool new apps to check out! Here are some open source apps that landed in the store recently - help test, translate, and improve.

• Radio by Patrick Fial, working with media hub search and play internet radio streams.

• MiTubo by Alberto Mardegan, native playback of internet video streams, this app uses youtube-dl and will play video with gstreamer.

• Scooter by Patrick Fial, Show scooter locations from Bird and unlock with QR code.

@cibersheep lots and lots of "unknown" thanks to apple i'm sure - we could make a way to hide "unknown" devices - they are for sure not the ones we try to connect to

Nice! @Capsia did you see the new qa - that is looking awesome! Are you merging the narrow view greeter and wide view? ultimately we are wanting the greeter to rotate Very awesome to see your work on this with @UniSuperBox

so, interesting, if we get rid of the box background completely, error text is not really visible. It is looking good replacing the text with white to match. here are screens, one no background, one with .3 opacity

If you do need to go to a single key - it might be good to use compiled qt in the build that goes to the store, so the program is within a binary and the plain qml not stored anywhere. Let me know if you need to do that and I can help.

I too rant into this problem on my new computer, going back to my older computer and flashing worked, is very strange? not sure if it is the android-tools version? or if it was because of usb2 ports -as I think my new computer only has usb3. so only advice right now is try a different computer, and if it works past the mounting step, lets try and get some comparisons of the computers it isn't working on.

@lduboeuf at least for the US we have this multi-tone ringing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxF2c_nhiGM

@arubislander probably to run apt I would guess - basically don't run apt, there is no need to extend your root partition.

i saw a few terminal chromecast apps - but so far the ones i tried need at least focal, I think it is best to wait on this one for now.

@keneda might be interesting if the booster is doing the volte communication, but the rebroadcasting to the phone

seems to be an effort on the editors of that site to purposely make this false distinction.

@messayisto don't think that will hide the unlock screen...

or someone could hack the bootloader to just not show that screen. i think there was option on the mi a2 to do this

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