Hi all,
just wanted to start a thread about my first app development job, to inform you I have made the heavy lift (hopefully!) for having most of the fundamental features in place to bring such a functionality to the Ubuntu Touch OS.
The link to my Gitlab repository page is: dataMonitor app, where it is saved the most up to date .click version 0.1.2 (in the folder /build/app).
The very latest commit is important because it is regarding fixing the bug about received bytes from the SIM connection not detected (wi-fi received data monitoring was working since the beginning).
I'd need some help to find out if it is working for you as it is working for me, but please bear in mind the app is UNCONFINED and runs a daemon on the background, so, you never know, better to install it, if you are willing to help, on a test device and not on a daily driver.

I also would like to use this thread to invite the UT community to share ideas and feature requests to improve this app and having it in a better shape to be eventually ready to be published in the OpenStore or integrated in the OS.
I was similarly involved and committed to help with the Linphone app developed by @CiberSheep and Brian and it was a great experience, very exciting and rewarding even if I didn't contribute very much at its development.
I started to work on this app because I felt a modern OS as UT cannot lack in this regard. Also, I read several times on this Forum and on Telegram about people asking for it or complaining for this lack; unfortunately, sometimes the reply to those people was that sure, the data usage monitoring app was missing in the UT OS but they could easily ask their SIM Provider to provide information as a workaround, which I felt a bit unhelpful and insufficient: I don't know your case but in my Country I cannot trust Providers, they are quite nifty so in my humble opinion it is very important to have the ability to monitor the received data on our own, to check on our Providers.

Thank you in advance.

Matteo

P.S. here below some screenshots of the app running on my phone.

@uri even though this is an old revived thread, only to let you know I'm right now working to provide an app bringing such a capability. I'm facing right now some troubles but I'm along the way to solve all those and maybe soon I'll come out with a concept app. Only for your information, the approach in my app is to exploit the API QNetworkConfigurationManager.

Matteo

Hi All,
just to revive this thread, I'd like to inform the Community that the dataMonitor app, object of the present thread, is still in heavy development by me but right now I'm committed in fixing some little glitches and bringing in UI improvements before to update it again on Gitlab to the last version. This version will be a big one, since it will also bring some gestures I worked on during this time I missed from the present thread.
I'd like to share with you some pics of the very latest build:

@mariogrip All the best wishes to you and your family. The Community needs you in the best shape to move the project further and further but remember that life and family always come first.

I read your post and I felt your pain, which is mine too. I agree with you with the fact that many little bugs ( some of the bugs you reported don't seem to me very little BTW) could have been tackled before. However, we are a small community, and only a bunch of devs among all the community people are active in the development and we cannot expect miracles from them. For this reason, personally I'm struggling to find my way to help the development to improve, with the goal to start from the little bugs. I'm not a dev, I know some coding languages, but never developed for a phone OS. Like me, other people are trying to ride the same route with similar objectives. In the end, in my humble opinion, something is moving in the background, and maybe soon (that's my hope!) there will be self-taught devs who will be able to make this OS always better and better. For all the interested people, we have a discussion group on matrix named Bootcamp, where all the beginners are more than welcome

@Lakota I have BQ Aquaris E5. I installed also Gimp and it seems working good.

@Stefano I also once changed the baseband following the guide on this forum but I didn't notice such an improvement. To be honest I didn't test it so heavily so thank you Stefano to have made us aware of that, I'll certanly flash it back and pay more attention to the behavior. As a final comment, I'd say that if confirmed to be worth the upgrade, it would be great if the latest firmware would be included in the UT image.

New app version 0.1.9 is now available for both architectures armhf and arm64. Find relevant .click files at dataMonitor app Repository.

-Version 0.1.9-

1. A brand new app restyling has been introduced with the present version. All the credits go to Michele (@mymike00 on Telegram) who made that possible! Thank you again Michele, this app is becoming more and more the flagship contribution of the Italian Community for the UBports - Ubuntu Touch project.

2. New gesture added for the graph: starting since now you can long swipe to the right/left on the graph to have a look at the data usage archived for the earlier/later months.

3. Added new Gestures info page and Credits page to the Information page of the app.

4. For the graph, modified X axis scale to accommodate better the days labels and enlarged bars graphical horizontal edge (smaller gap between two adjacent bars) within each time step.

5. Minor bug fixing.

@AppLee and @geekvine and @Giiba you need to build the binary first before to compile the clickable app.
So, once installed the dataMonitor folder into your local directory, you first need to run clickable build-libs to compile the file Actiondaemon.cpp. Only after that, you are ready to run clickable with your phone connected to your PC to compile the whole project.
Thank you for your interest BTW. Any feedback from you on the app behavior is highly appreciated

Matteo

I just updated the app on my Gitlab repository (link to this you can find in the first post). The most important feature for me is the introduction of the notifications, which are now triggered in case of exceeding data thresholds. The full change log is below:

-Version 0.1.6-

1. A new icon has been introduced with the present release (I'm not a great artist so this could be a temporary solution in case somebody else would come up with a better idea);

2. Added notifications in case of data thresholds exceeding. The code employs the C++ function 'popen' which apparently is the only one I discovered to work seamlessly without killing the daemon ('system' and 'QProcess' were the other two methods tried before);

3. Added summary at the Main.qml page for SIM and Wi-fi data;

4. Added the "info" section on the up right corner, close to "settings";

5. Merged early translation to spanish thanks to @Krakakanov (new additional strings to be translated have been added since then);

6. Added translation to italian thanks to...me;

7. Added gestures to interact with the graph:

   • Scroll down/up with two fingers to enlarge/narrow the 'MBytes' data range;

   • Press and hold with one finger to create a new data threshold object;

8. Added 'BottomEdge' section to store the list of the created data thresholds. In this section you can:

   • Drag the data threshold row towards right, to delete the data threshold;

   • Drag the data threshold row towards left, to mute the notification for the concerned threshold;

9. Added labels for 'Mbytes' and 'Days of Month';

10. Fixed 'Mbytes' data steps to be consistent between the Vertical and Horizontal view and to fill all the space at its disposal;

11. Fixed bug occurring when the date passed from one day to the day after, not calculating the received data in a correct way;

12. Added message on the middle of the page to inform about data unavailability when opening a graph with no data yet;

13. Added message on the middle of the 'BottomEdge' page to inform about thresholds unavailability when no data thresholds yet.

New app version 0.1.9.4 is now available for both architectures armhf and arm64. Find relevant .click files at dataMonitor app Repository.

Change log:

-Version 0.1.9.4-

1. Previous fix for issue #10 "Horizontal axis shows days labels overlapped on some devices (e.g. BQ Aquaris E5 HD)" generated a regression which the present release tries to resolve.

2. Fix for issue #11 "Sometimes received data for one connection, either Wi-Fi or SIM, are stored for both, when both are enabled on the device". In addition, networkdaemon.cpp was also modified for the user case with 2 SIM cards enabled at the same time.

Kind regards,

Matteo

DISCLAIMER: I'm without a UT compatible device right now (waiting for a PinePhone to come though) and I'm struggling to move further the development of the present app, but still trying hard to. Therefore regressions due to difficulties to test parts of the code that cannot be tested right now with the clickable compilation for desktop are likely to happen (as it happened already with the previous build 0.1.9.3 for instance). I'm trying to have a little step by little step approach in this phase, to avoid as much as possible huge regressions or misbehavior. If you experienced issues, I kindly ask you to be patient since those will be resolved as soon as I can (of course the development will speed up again once I'll get my device) and to giving me any feedback by filing bug reports in the issues section of my repository page.

New app version 0.1.9.3 is now available for both architectures armhf and arm64. Find relevant .click files at dataMonitor app Repository.

Change log:

-Version 0.1.9.3-

1. Additional fix for issue #5 "Inconsistent values (even negative)", due to incoherent behavior at the changing of month; Actiondaemon.cpp file modified.

2. Fix for issue #9 "remove daemon does not give user feedback".

3. Fix for issue #10 "Horizontal axis shows days labels overlapped on some devices (e.g. BQ Aquaris E5 HD)".

4. Minor labels tinkering in the "Settings" section, to displaying more clearly text and messages.

Kind regards,

Matteo

New app version 0.1.9.2 is now available for both architectures armhf and arm64. Find relevant .click files at dataMonitor app Repository. This version in mainly aimed to solve this bug

Change log:

-Version 0.1.9.2-

1. Fix to issue #5 "Inconsistent values (even negative)"; Actiondaemon.cpp file modified.

Hi, I think one of the script creator wrote a post also on this Forum on the same subject. I'm referring to this if it's of any help for you or other interested people, at least it's in english. I'd like to help with Anbox myself, but I'm not competent enough, sorry to say.

New app version 0.1.9 is now available for both architectures armhf and arm64. Find relevant .click files at dataMonitor app Repository.

-Version 0.1.9-

1. A brand new app restyling has been introduced with the present version. All the credits go to Michele (@mymike00 on Telegram) who made that possible! Thank you again Michele, this app is becoming more and more the flagship contribution of the Italian Community for the UBports - Ubuntu Touch project.

2. New gesture added for the graph: starting since now you can long swipe to the right/left on the graph to have a look at the data usage archived for the earlier/later months.

3. Added new Gestures info page and Credits page to the Information page of the app.

4. For the graph, modified X axis scale to accommodate better the days labels and enlarged bars graphical horizontal edge (smaller gap between two adjacent bars) within each time step.

5. Minor bug fixing.

New app version 0.1.8 is available for both architecture armhf and arm64. Find relevant .click files at dataMonitor app Repository.
Change log is the following:

-Version 0.1.8-

1. Indicator facility added for a quicker glance at data usage. It's optional and the user can decide whether to install it or not, from Settings. The implementation is based on the indicator-weather by B. Douglass and the recently released indicator-upower by Ernest: thanks to both the developers.

2. Merged MR made by Jonatan Ziegler, who modified the mattdaemon.conf file and the relevant CMakeLists.txt to be architecture agnostic. To have the new file in place, you need to head to Settings, remove the daemon files by means of the dedicated button, close the app and re-open soon after to have automatically installed the new daemon files.

3. Fixed a bug preventing to build for the arm64 architecture: clickable complained for too many zeroes of a constant number defined in the networkdaemon.cpp file only for being as big as possible but exceeding the long type capability. Reducing the number of zeroes did the trick.

@ricardo65 please tell me if you find any misbehavior like the one you noticed before. It's strange, the two data shall not be mixed together. Let me now.

In the meantime, I finally by-passed the error thrown with the arm64 compilation and I uploaded also the clickable for this architecture. To download it, please head to --------->.click for arm64

I hope starting since now I'll receive some feedback from Pinephone/Raspberry Pi owners too

Regards,

Matteo

@ricardo65 I thought you were compiling from the source. However, I just now uploaded the .click file for armhf architecture. Please head to my repository I pointed you out just in the above message reply.
I also tried to compile a .click for arm64 arch, but it threw an error to me and I have to give a better look at what's wrong with the compilation of the Actiondaemon binary for arm64.

@ricardo65 from my repository page ---> here. If you are going to build the app yourself on your phone, don't forget to run first a clickable build-libs to compile the executable file, before to run clickable to build on your phone. Let me know ;). Regards.

Hi All,
I'm happy to announce that the version 0.1.7 is out. The main modifications are related to make the monitoring activity working also for the SIM connection due to a nasty bug @ricardo65 highlighted to me, which I hope I got rid of. Moreover, as advised before I modified the daemon files to be more simple and useful (but in future I'd eventually need to tinker those files again to bring somehow an automatic time step adjustment - Future Enhancement); who has got already the app installed needs first to delete the previous daemon files, from Settings page before having the new versions working; in addition, now the app shows many more options in the Settings page with the aim of putting in place the highest customization as possible for the app, in the very genuine Linux spirit.
For a better look at the modifications, see here below the log:

-Version 0.1.7-

1. Fixed bug which prevented the app to work for the SIM connection (feedback needed on this).

2. Daemon .conf files modified in a more useful and simple way. To get rid of the previous .conf versions, user to go to 'Settings', to push 'remove daemon', to exit from the app and open the app again to have the new .conf files copied at the .config/upstart location.

3. Added new settings in the 'Settings' page:

   1. Switch to enable colors by theme global selection or to be custom set; user can now set a custom color + opacity for the background, lines, font, buttons, graph grid and bars;
   2. Switch + button to enable the global theme selection by daylight (between Ambiance and SuruDark only), setting a threshold time;
   3. Slider to custom set the daemon time step for its idle activity, to better control the battery energy drain.

4. Minor bug fixes.

Thank you.

Matteo