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.

@kugiigi I saw a video of yours showcasing all the stuff you created and shared in the main telegram group because I found all of that so great! I would like to use ALL of them but I'm afraid to break my phone which is my daily driver, therefore I can only wait for you to propose them to be included mainstream, on Gitlab/Github. Since I find your work on UT so precious and valuable, once I'll be able to use your stuff I have the intention to provide you with a little offer, as I did for other developers, such as Alfred for instance, who made great things and deserve to be a little bit financed. Thanks Kugi and keep going with bringing UT always further and further

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:

New app version 0.1.9.9 with .click files for arm64 and armhf architectures are now available here.
Find below the current change log:

-Version 0.1.9.9-

1. Message bubble implemented for the graph, to display data usage for each data bar, just tapping on the concerned bar. This is deliberately taken from the Talaan app made by Kugi Eusebio @javacookies. Thanks Kugi for your work.

2. Main page and Chart page are now able to update theirs figures and chart automatically (every 10 seconds), the latter without the recourse to an update button, implementing the .qml 'Timer' cycle in the code. Because of that, for Chart page the update button on the top right hand side of it was deleted.

3. Added mattdaemon status in the Indicator panel to acknowledging if the daemon is Active or Inactive.

4. Refresh time in mattdaemon.conf file is set to 10 seconds (former 40 seconds) to be the app default update time step. With such modification the data usage is updated more frequently so that data not accounted for is more unlikely to occur and moreover battery drain doesn't seem to be much affected.

5. Refresh time for dataMonitor Indicator is set to 10 seconds (former 30 seconds) to be better aligned to Main page app refresh time.

6. Added a stop command to stop the mattdaemon daemon when uninstalled from Settings, to force it being inactive.

7. Fix for actiondaemon.cpp file for appropriate data storage, when the device is kept alive continuously for more than one day.

8. Exceeded data threshold notification is now translatable.

Any feedback on the current status of the app is always welcome.

Kindly note that the present version is the last test version and starting since the next one, i.e. the 0.2.0, you'll hopefully find it published in the OpenStore. What is now missing is only the artwork (to be clear the new app icon as minimum) which will probably not take me too much to implement it thanks to @C0n57an71n work). Thanks to the people who supported me in this journey, which was painful and instructive to me at the same time. See you in the OpenStore! Cheers.

Matteo

@mymike I'm late to the party but I wish only to say: great job Michele! I like very much how you designed the breakdown of stored data for each app; the idea of proportional bars and the data characterization by different colors is just brilliant. Thank you and keep up the good work

@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.

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

@rinigus I will try to help you out to package it if none of the most experienced UBports developers will show up....only, this is my last week at work and after I'll have plenty of time next week to dedicate at this scope. I'm not a great developer but I know a little how to package things with clickable even if I didn't manage yet to download and include third party packages in the clickable package, up to now.
Don't worry, somehow we will be your hands and your eyes, in order to have your great app set and working on this platform

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

@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.

@Plarde I just downloaded the app and my first impression is that it's great! Kudos to you for the effort you made, really worth it. At a first sight, but as a disclaimer I might have not spent enough time in this app yet, it seems that if I zoom in to enlarge the words size the tool to draw and highlight text just disappears and I'm not able to use that. Potentially it's a great app indeed

Just to share my experience, few days ago Waydroid stopped to work for me with my Pixel 3a on 16.04 Stable channel. I was then forced to pass to 20.04, since I still need to have whatsapp in some ways available. I thought that upgrating from within the OS itself straight to 20.04 it would have been a good idea, avoiding using the Ubports installed but it was a great pain instead; it upgraded to 20.04 but OS resulted severely broken. In fact any kind of gesture I was used to was slower and unresponsive most of the time. Phone storage was awfully clogged, 60 GB nearly full for no apparent reason like if the new OS installed along with the old one. Subsequently, I decided to employ the Ubports installer without selecting the wipe option in order to preserve my data but it never ended the process, after many attempts with different usb cables (at least 5 cables I tried). There was no way to resurrect the phone, therefore in the end I was obliged to try to install by means of the Ubports installer but this time tapping on the wipe tick, to install from scratch. It worked flawless and now I'm on Focal 20.04. Unfortunately I lost some of my data, but luckily I was wise enough to backup at least my personal videos and pictures. The new environment seems much snappier than before, but I'll report my experience on that in a few days to get used to it.

@AppLee thank you again for your valid points and your valuable reply. Of course I may have forgotten other important people who are contributing to develop the OS, my bad. But my comment was intended to be general and not specific. I agree with you that for a developer the best reward should be the satisfaction for the work done but I also believe that a monetary reward might help and motivate more a dev, otherwise why are we normal users encouraged to donate, if not for this reason? Said that, I hope this project will thrive more and more and think that people motivated and dedicated to that do deserve more. Sadly I deem that UBports Founder isn't that anymore, therefore others shall take his place. Keep up the good work. Best regards. Matteo

@AppLee hi, thank you for replying to me, really appreciated. Let me better explain what I mean with my post. First, I would like to clarify that I really believe in this project and in what the UBports Community is trying to bring forward, with a lot of struggling, i.e. the development of an OS which is different from all the rest. I trust this Community, I believe in free software in general and in Linux in particular and I'm grateful to all the devs that so far worked actively into development. I'm raising this topic since I'm with you when you say that, quote "people can trust the foundation with donations" unquote, and this is exactly the reason why I'm afraid there might be a loss of interest in UT and diminishing of donations. I followed the development of this OS since the very beginning, since when Marius announced to the World (the niche of it of course) that he would have stepped in to keep up the development of UT. For many years he was by himself the driving force of this Community and really he, and couple of fellow devs, lifted all the work burden alone. In last years, I noticed his involvement has restrained a lot: in the last months I just remember of him few announcements to say that he wants to be still the reference for this project, that he is working on topic such as VoLTE or AGPS and nothing else more. Other than the announcements I cannot see any practical signs of what he did in this regards nor whether he found any roadblockers or where we are at, what's the state of the art for each of the topics. I see him not participating publicly to this Forum at all, nor in any Telegram channel or any other channel that I'm aware of. What I see instead is a bunch of devs trying to keep the development on track with too many efforts to be done in their spare time: their pain is my pain. Unfortunately I have no particular skills in development, even though I tried in the past to get my hands dirty with couple of apps but when you come to development at low level, I simply am not able to comply with since in my daily life I do something completely different from coding. I try to help as much as I can in other ways, one way is with monetary contribution. I still follow updates here in the Forum and in Telegram even though I recently am less active at writing. When I talk about transparency, it's mostly related to Marius because he is the Founder and I wish to know if he is still motivated or not and this may orientate my donation as well. In the latter case, I may prefer to finance the people, directly or indirectly, who has the coding knowledge and I recognize are doing very recently a great job, let me mention for instance Jami, Raoul, Florian who put a lot of efforts in the past, Mike Gabriel and Alfred, as I deem they deserve to be rewarded for all the work done somehow. Problem is I don't even know if the money I'm sending to UBports reaches them in some ways, since I don't know how all the donations are employed inside the foundation. If you can enlighten me I'd appreciate. Thank you in advance.

@matteo thanks to Alfred who replied to this question in last Q&A, even though I deem his reply is a bit disappointing for the reason I want to share with you. In my opinion, Marius isn't any random dev, he is the dev who made all of this to happen, who had the courage to keep up the development of UT after Canonical quit. If he lost interest in UT, I would like to know as an enthusiast user and financier of UT at the same time. This to understand if my financing at UT is still fine (I wish to know where my money is going, which is just a little contribution, but granted for many years so far), or maybe I should better orientate my contribution directly to devs nowadays active with UT (like Alfred and others are, for instance). Don't take this wrong: Marius has the right to do whatever he likes the best with his life, same as all people involved with UT, but I think a little bit of more transparency should be sought here.

@domubpkm I would take advantage of this question to ask if Marius Gripsgard, the UBports founder, is still around. It's been a while, couple of years at least, that I see him not participating anymore to devs activities, publicly at least, and very seldom to Q&As, even though in one of the last appearences he said that he would have wanted to become the UBports main reference, but since then he quite disappeared. Looking also at modifications and PRs in preparation of the last OTAs, apparently his contributions became marginal. Thank you in advance. Matteo

@kugiigi thank you for the detailed feedback, it encourages me a lot to move forward. I don't exacly use many apps on UT but the ones that I use I would like to keep, starting from the app I developed, which is dataMonitor. I think, when I'll be ready for the move, I'll first minimize as much as I can the apps that I have installed so that I'll reduce the risk of any glitches during and after the installation.

@danfro what I miss the most is my own app dataMonitor, which is only available for xenial. My plan is that when I'll be moved to focal, I'll port its funtionality directly into System settings. Then other apps such as CloudMusic (albeit recently stopped to work for some reason...) and Wordle.

@danfro hi Daniel, good question. I'm still on xenial with my Pixel 3a foremost because of one simple reason: it seems to be a bit troublesome to pass from xenial to focal, due to the fact that apparently if you update on the fly from the system updater you'll end up with a not quite stable OS with few annoying quirks, according to some users reports; best option would then be to use the Ubports installer which is easy to use, but it would require to completely wipe your phone to start-up focal from scratch in order to have a clean installation, which is not ideal for my use case. The aforementioned for me is the main road-blocker to focal, not mentioning the lack of few apps that I use and since this phone is my daily driver and I have no backup phone, prior to make that big leap I'm waiting that focal will become stable enough. Hope it helped. Regards. Matteo

@pe3noATo2DOTpl 30 minutes waiting doesn't sound good. The Meizu Pro5 maintainer/porter is the one you talked to in the other thread you pointed me out two messages above. Try asking him to enable Waydroid for your device; unfortunately I'm not aware of the steps to follow in order to make Waydroid available for your device. All the best for your quest. Matteo