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    • New App: Chromium PDF

      Hi,

      I just wrote a PDF reader based on Chromium PDF engine.

      It's pretty dummy, written in 30 minutes. But quite useful (at least for me) given the limitations of Document viewer, and that sturmreader is currently broken on noble.

      I think it will greatly benefit from Qt6 upgrade, when it comes, because of improvement of the engine in chromium.

      It is published in the openstore:

      https://github.com/pparent76/chromiumpdf

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      Regards,
      Pierre.

      posted in App Development
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    • RE: Send notification locally from QT/C++/QML App.

      Ok in this version of whatsweb I have the notifications working without being unconfined, and it gets to the system panel! (Provided the app is not suspended in background)

      🎉🎉

      https://github.com/pparent76/whatsweb/tree/82cd0c659af09bfad4315ba6c39e398d881451c3

      posted in App Development
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    • Whatsweb app upgrade.

      Hi,

      Whatsweb has been upgraded to version 0.3.0 and later 0.3.2 . @alefnode has merged my work including some improvements listed bellow 🥳. The app should work correctly for all the main features. If you see something not working please do not hesitate report, as I'm working on it these days.

      Improvements released in 0.3.0:

      • Support for notifications (if app suspending is disabled in Ubuntu Tweaks and app kept open)
      • Smoother navigation with transitions
      • Smoother keyboard appearance/appearance
      • Avoid opening the keyboard untimely, when navigating
      • Enable GPU acceleration
      • Hide left panel for more pleasant interface
      • Make Emoji panel usable
      • Better graphical integration of navigation buttons ( back in chatview )
      • Copy a message to clipboard quickly with a long push on message.
      • Screensaver when the app is not foreground: hide the webview to save battery
      • Fix "contact info" panel
      • Fix left menus.
      • Fix Upload files

      Improvements released in 0.3.2:

      • Fix screensaver background image ( When app is not in foreground )
      • Fix navigation icons&screensaver color in dark mode.
      • Fix "new conversation" + "Archived conversation" + "Chats in community panel"
      • Allow to download medias and export to other apps
      • Optimize scaling and font-size
      • Add a notice while the application is loading to inform users about the necessity to disable suspend with "Ubuntu tweaks" to get notifications.

      Todo later:

      • Create an internal configuration menu to tweak the app (Scaling, Font Size, Enable/Disable notifications, gpu, screensaver,background audio in webview, quick copy to clipboard, ... )
      • Fix right hand-corner menu buttons: stared messages + access to archive message
      • Fix multiple-files import
      • Make responsive Overlay panel (used by: transfer message, new community, delete chat ect...)
      • Minor bug correction, and tweaks for rarely used features
      • Clean code to make it easy to maintain
      posted in App Development
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    • RE: Is there an easy way to dual boot Android and Ubuntu Touch?

      @Opolork Dual boot is possible on vollaphone, it's a feature provided by the manufacturer.

      https://wiki.volla.online/index.php?title=MultiBoot_mode_in_VollaOS_for_VollaPhone_Quintus

      posted in General
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    • RE: Send notification locally from QT/C++/QML App.

      ✔ My solution to the initial question:
      Here is my QML module to handle local notifications:

      https://github.com/pparent76/UbuntuTouch-qml-notify-module

      It contains a script setup-project.sh to install automatically all the requirements into the app project.


      Also this push request to the whatsweb app can be pretty informative:

      https://github.com/alefnode/ubports-apps/pull/44

      Especially this commit that corresponds to setting up the module with setup-project.sh:

      https://github.com/alefnode/ubports-apps/pull/44/commits/81d08baba14ed941ca0c9b246d0df543b0a452a6

      posted in App Development
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    • RE: New App: Chromium PDF

      Actually it's published in openstrore:
      https://open-store.io/app/chromiumpdf.pparent

      posted in App Development
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    • RE: Contact tracing on ubports (covid-19)

      And I guess privacy and freedom activists especially in the field of mobilephones, might have interest in being proactive and proposing solutions at the edge of privacy protection, rather than letting others propose solutions that are not so good for privacy.

      If others want to do it, I'm willing to participate in developing such an app.

      posted in Off topic
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    • RE: Send notification locally from QT/C++/QML App.

      @lduboeuf said in Send notification locally from QT/C++/QML App.:

      congrats for your perseverance. Now you are in the perfect situation to update or create a documentation 🙂

      Thank's I will make better than this! 😉 I will update my QML notification module, and make a scripts that installs into an existing project all the prerequisites for it to work. Because there are some many tweaks to achieve it that it should not be done by a human, it's a loss of time, and the risk of mistake is too high. And anyway a script is always a more precise documentation on the actions to take than a human readable documentation.

      posted in App Development
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    • New app: PDFjs

      Hi,

      Yet another PDF reader app! This time based on PDF.js

      Note that it might currently not be the best PDF engine for touch display, because it is currently based on an old version of PDF.js (v2.13.216) which is the last supported by webengine in Qt5.15. And it does not support pinch to zoom.

      But as soon as we upgrade to Qt6, I will upgrade PDF.js version and it should offer a great user experience.

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      https://github.com/pparent76/PDFjs/tree/master

      Pierre.

      posted in App Development
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    • RE: Signal-Desktop - Setup for Devices without waydroid using Libertine (More or less fully functional. Better than nothing)

      @CatWithUT

      Thank you for your work it seems very interesting to me!

      Just a quick question: do you think it would be feasible to create a .click package and have it in the Openstore? In a similar fashion that uWolf and uFirefox does? Can we avoid libertine containers? Do you think upcoming Mir2.0 will change anything in this regard as it supports Wayland?

      Do you use Mobian build scripts for ARM, for signal-desktop? https://github.com/0mniteck/Signal-Desktop-Mobian/releases

      And also note: if we can get an initial version to build and make an UT package I'm willing to work on making patches to make the interface responsive as I have done with whatsapp web. I think this is the easy part.

      But we should first make a set of scripts to build automatically a binary, and then a click package that can run on UT.

      posted in Libertine
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    Latest posts made by pparent

    • RE: Orange screen crash on Vollaphone 22 / Noble 24.04

      Seems to stop happening when I disable emergency notifications.

      posted in Support
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    • RE: Orange screen crash on Vollaphone 22 / Noble 24.04

      It just happened again , I will disable any broadcast notification to see if it stops the problem. I really hope that I will find a solution because this thing will make my phone unusable...

      posted in Support
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    • Orange screen crash on Vollaphone 22 / Noble 24.04

      Hi,

      Today I've seen two orange screen crash: While the phone is suspended, the screen suddenly turns orange (fully screen), and the only possibility is to reboot the phone.

      This is the first time I see this. I'm on a volaphone on Noble 24.04 stable: 24.04-1.0 . I've done the upgrade few weeks ago without noticing this thing.

      The only thing I've done this morning is install and then uninstall Morph browser Qt6 preview.

      On Saturday I've also enabled some emergency broadcast notifications from the setting panel, because there was an exercise where I live and I was the only one not to get the information broadcasted by the authorities. I don't know if it might me related.

      Anyone has ever seen that?

      posted in Support
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    • RE: Desperate guy Here

      @XPran

      You need to turn off the phone, and then boot with long push on "power" and "volume up" buttons at the same time, until you see a "Recovery Menu", then select the first option "Boot recovery", then connect it in USB to your computer and the installer should work fine. Select Ubuntu Touch 24.04, and sit back & relax while the installer is doing its job.

      posted in Volla Phone 22
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    • RE: Desperate guy Here

      @XPran said in Desperate guy Here:

      @Keneda from where ? UB ports from the pc?

      Yes install this program on your computer:

      https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/installer/

      Connect your phone in USB, and follow the instructions, It's pretty straightforward, and soon you will have a functional phone, with all the apps that you need.

      posted in Volla Phone 22
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    • RE: WhatsApp not working

      @ToxyPoxy Although it seems that calls could possibly make its way to Whatsapp web one day, which would be amazing, and then we will probably be able to support it inside the app.

      https://beebom.com/whatsapp-web-voice-and-video-calling-coming-soon/

      https://3dvf.com/en/whatsapp-will-soon-allow-making-calls-directly-from-your-web-browser/

      posted in OS
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    • RE: WhatsApp not working

      @ToxyPoxy

      It's not a feature currently offered by Whatsapp Web, so as whatsweb is based on Whatsapp Web, the answer is no.

      For that you can try to use Whatsapp inside Waydroid, which should work, although call quality may vary!

      posted in OS
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    • RE: Signal-CLI on Ubuntu touch?

      @aarontheissueguy

      But what do you think about basing a solution on a custom build of signal-desktop?

      Because this seems to me the most promising way it have it running (Especially with upcoming Wayland-compatible Mir2.0), and I might give it a try when I have time.

      posted in App Development
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    • RE: New App: Chromium PDF

      @domubpkm

      In Chromium PDF the zooming & scrolling is mostly fine and quite responsive, much better than document viewer.

      Although I think performance will still improve with Qt6 to be perfectly fluid, and with Qt6 PDF.js might be even better than Chromium PDF, and we'll get top-notch PDF reader.

      posted in App Development
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    • RE: New App: Chromium PDF

      @Vlad-Nirky

      For me (on Volla phone 22) the flashes are not quite short especially when zooming a lot into the PDF.

      I use PDF reading mainly for tickets (train, events, concerts) with a small QR-code inside the pdf, and I have to zoom on the QR-Code to display it fullscreen as fast as possible. With document viewer it take ages to do that.

      posted in App Development
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