@peat_psuwit said in Call for testing: Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.1:

(there has been flooding in my area).

I'm glad to hear that you're safe. Please give priority to your health and safety, and those of your family, over a software update!

Unfortunately, there is currently no native, working Signal client for UT and this is unlikely to change soon. But if that's a problem that impacts you, read on! I found a solution that works well for me and maybe it will work for you, too.

My solution consists of several parts:

• Signal for Android, running in Waydroid. You can download it from their webpage or from F-Droid or Aurora Store.
• Signal Desktop running on several computers, and linked to the first Signal, which is the primary device. All others are secondary devices. You can have only one primary.
• Cinny, running on UT, using a Matrix bridge to connect to Signal. This is very new to me and yet it was easy.

I followed these instructions given by Danfro:

For everyone here who is looking for an alternative to use Signal on Ubuntu Touch.
There is a matrix signal bridge hosted here: https://tchncs.de/matrix.
This can be used with Cinny or any other Matrix client. Instructions are given on the website there.
Note: Some things do still not work. Image download is fine, but right now no other file types. I am working on it...

• Open Cinny (or another matrix client)
• create a new room
• invite the bridge bot @signalbot:tchncs.de
• open your primary signal device and head for settings, linked devices
• add new device
• got to chat with bridge bot and type "login" as message
• scan the qr code with your primary device, it should now link them
  Done.

I had an extra step because my primary is running in Waydroid and it's a pain generating and scanning a QR code on one and the same device, plus it refused to work. So I installed the latest Cinny on a spare phone and used that to link Cinny to Signal. It worked fine.

I hope this is useful to anyone else!

I was one of the volunteers humanning the stand, and it was great. We were able to answer a lot of questions, we showed many different devices on our stand, and people were quite enthousiastic about what we had to show and say. It was an inspiring day and we helped promote UT and make contact with organisations for possible collaboration. Time well spent!

@libremax Thanks for posting! I'm still at Bornhack, and beside the talk, there are so many folks here who are interested in Ubuntu Touch. Now that people know that I'm using it, lots of people want to talk to me about it and ask me questions, and I answer as many as I can.
My show-and-tell device (BQ Aquaris E4.5) goes from hand to hand (yes, we use sanitizer) and people are amazed by the smooth operation, and more when I tell them how old it is.

I'm hoping to be causing a small influx of interest in our OS and community. I'm certainly doing my best to do so!

@grenudi said in We Drop Ubuntu Touch Entirely:

I did. No one even replied to my post about a year ago

I saw your post and I did not understand it, it was clearly above my level of understanding.

I don't think anyone is patting each other on the back here. This is a project that's mostly run by volunteers and it's smaller than you may think. Our (barely a handful of) core devs are mostly busy getting VoLTE to run and fixing bugs in the new Noble release.

Most of the apps are made by volunteers who don't know enough about OS development to help with that, but still want to help. I'm grateful for their time.

I'm not sure what could be done better here. On a personal level, I enjoy the OS and it works for me.

In the end, we should all be using the OS that we like best. It's fine that you are choosing to use something else than UT. But why the whole song and dance?

YESSS
It's working! I have zoom, autofocus and flash! This is the last thing that was missing for me to be able to say that the phone is fully functional under UT!

Excuse me while I dance the happy dance...

@grenudi said in We Drop Ubuntu Touch Entirely:

at the same time, the OS doesn't even ship a decent resource monitor. htop isn't even available by default, and users have to ask why it's not included.

You know, I've never ever even realised there wasn't one. This shows you that we are very different users. I'm a rather average user with a small dash of power user. You sound the other way around.

And clearly you seem to know a lot. It makes me wonder whether or not there really isn't a way you could help. You seem generally motivated to make things better, there is an energy present in your frustration and maybe that energy could find a constructive outlet.

I'm wondering about something else. Who is the 'we' in "We Drop Ubuntu Touch Entirely"? You're making it sound as if we should care deeply, when the reality is that people stop and start using mobile OSses all the time. Just this week I helped two users switch to UT and they both like it.

Some of their applications can run on Waydroid. But most people who are using Ubuntu Touch wish to get away from Google. Personally I want to avoid Android applications and the Google Playstore.

If we are going to do everything that Android does, what would make us special? Why would we even bother?

This was a lot of fun. We had a really simple stand because we didn't bring a lot of equipment, but it was enough: we got plenty of interest, had some good conversations, and answered many questions. It's definitely worth planning for T-Dose 2026 (June 6 and 7)!

Greetings from all the creatures of T-Dose!

Ubuntu Touch:
It's in your hands.

@Shapa Thank you! I hope the porter or maintainer will make it official/supported. Would be cool to have it in the installer!

@Shapa I didn't even know there was a port! Can you give us a link?

As for the fingerprint feature, if the porter has not included that in the port, I don't think you can enable it. Maybe talk to the porter?

@GooglyBear said in Most wanted features for Morph?:

Did you find any good alternatives?

That user hasn't used the forum since 2023.

@padraic said in Recent update - keyboard doesn't appear to allow login:

I would rather not reflash my device and wipe everything...

You may need to reflash but that does not mean wipe everything. If you make sure to uncheck the 'Wipe User Data' box in the installer, your data will be kept.

@enki said in top 3 app wish list for Ubuntu 24.04:

currently the Ubuntu Touch 24.04 does not have any working client.

That's correct. That's why I said they are outdated. Of course, that depends on finding a volunteer who has the time, the skills and wants to take this on.

What we do have is a native Matric client. It's called Cinny UT.

@Gelukkig said in Apps I really would love:

Reply form mij phone is: can't install the download (f-droid.apk) need a click-package .

That's because you're trying to install it in UT. Try installing it inside Waydroid instead. On UT, apk packages can only run inside Waydroid; that's why it exists.

@enki said in top 3 app wish list for Ubuntu 24.04:

Conversation for xmpp chat audio/video client

It's usually not smart to insist on the same app to appear on UT. But there are three outdated XMPP apps. Maybe one of these can be updated?

https://open-store.io/?sort=relevance&search=xmpp

I'm going to move this topic into the App Development subsection since it's not about the OS.

@Gelukkig said in Apps I really would love:

For Waydroid I still need a Google account

No, you don't. I have Waydroid, and no Google account has ever been used on this phone. What do you think you need it for?

If you think it's the Playstore: first, from the browser, install F-Droid. That gives you an anonymous app store. From F-droid, install the Aurora store; now you have an anonymous Playstore that does not require a Google account.

@atarilinux said in VoLTE Implementation For Google Pixel 3a/3a XL:

For me, if the phone actually worked, the Google Pixel 3a Ubuntu Touch would be 95% daily drivable for me.

Well, as always there are no guarantees, but that device may in the near future be getting a new maintainer, who is US based.

@ufoddos I have to wonder... are you using Ubuntu Touch?