@GooglyBear JotIt Notes on the OpenStore can sync with Nextcloud Notes.

@RapidRotator you should only download the apk from the GmsCore repository. Also, the hw apk is for Huawei devices specifically. You want the full APK.

Edit: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/releases/tag/v0.3.10.250932

com.google.android.gms-250932020.apk , not -user or -hw APK.

@RapidRotator How did you install Waydroid and the Waydroid image? I installed it via Waydroid Helper (regular image, not Gapps), and everything just worked. Had to grant a few random permissions to microG, but everything else including signature spoofing was supported out of the box.

Edit: I should also mention that I did nothing special to install microG. Just downloaded the regular APK (NOT the user mode one), and installed it. Then updated via f-droid.

Yes. The non-gapps Wayland image has signature spoofing enabled. MicroG can be installed directly, without anything special. You will have to grant it various permissions manually, though.

Device registration seems to work. SafetyNet/Play Integrity absolutely does not work.

Have not tested anything else (push notifications, etc). I use Shizuku + Aurora Store to mark apps installed by com.android.vending. Not sure if microG's new feature that marks apps as installed by Play Store works. It probably does.

@Gelukkig said in Apps I really would love:

@projectmoon Thanks, I have installed all the apps you mention. For Waydroid I still need a Google account and the purpose is to get rid of Google and Apple accounts

The default image of Waydroid does not have Play Services or anything else. As others have said, you can download F-Droid then use that to install Aurora Store, and from there, install apps that are on the Play Store.

But as for bluetooth, this will not work in Waydroid. It is a limitation of Waydroid itself.

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

Conversation for xmpp chat audio/video client

There is an experimental port of Kaidan being developed: https://gitlab.com/alaskalinuxuser/kaidan_0_6_0

Haven't really tested charge speed, but 5G and WiFi hotspot work perfectly fine for me on the Quintus. Hotspot had a bug in 24.04-1.0, which was fixed in 24.04-1.1.

@Gelukkig DigiD works fine in Waydroid. Probably NL-Alert too, though I don't know what that is.

Other apps you may be interested in on the OpenStore:

• Wegwijs
• Radar (Buienradar)
• NedNieuws
• RadioNL

@Sentinel said in Smooth Edges (name pending) - Let's Fix the Bugs That Drive You Mad:

Lack of easy access to Waydroid files (and Waydroid not having easy access to any UT files) is kind of a big issue. I've created a SystemD service to auto-mount the Waydroid folder on UT side, but most people won't be able to do that.

Could you share that system unit in another topic maybe?

Well the calendar app accesses alarms. So that points to the problem being with the alarms themselves.

There are some very suspicious things in the logs. Namely about being unable to connect to dconf and the ensuing Fail to connect with client. Don't know what the exact problem is, but I imagine your issue has something to do with that. Are you able to go into the terminal (or better, adb shell) and do ls -ld /run/user/32011/dconf/user? And maybe ls -ld on the directories above, because I assume 32011 is a process ID (pid) which can change.

I tried running the Docker snap before, but I got hit by overlayfs not being present. Will your version of the snap work in that situation? Or is it dependent on the device having overlayfs?

New one that I've found! Hide notification content setting does not hide notification content. Don't know if it's something apps have to opt in to, but at least WhatsWeb notifications are plainly visible while device is locked.

Edit: more on this problem. So it turns out that the notifications are blurred when the notification is received and pops up on the screen. It is, however, not hidden in the indicator when you slid it open after the fact!

Are there plans for under-screen fingerprint sensors? E.g. for the Volla Quintus.

@garsbenjoe said in feedback:

working Firefox

https://gitlab.com/debclick/uFirefox

There are some issues with the keyboard, but this is not specific to the app itself.

Here is a new one that I forgot to put on my list the first time.

Silent Mode!

It does not work correctly, or at least it does not behave in a way that is intuitive. I turn on silent mode, and I still get notification ping sounds. I don't see the alert volume change to 0 in uVolMan.

Also there is no separation between silent and do not disturb that I can find. It would be good to have a do not disturb mode that completely silences the phone, vibrations, and notifications.

@gpatel-fr said in Problem installing snap:

@projectmoon said in Problem installing snap:

But that Should Be (TM) fixed with Mir 2.0... probably. Don't think anyone has tested it yet.

err, does this Mir 2.0 thingy has magical powers somehow ? I have not seen this part of the UT lore, where was it said that this particular change was going to solve the virtual keyboard problem for apps that are not designed to use it ?

It's more of a guess on my part and a part of some of the UT developers. It's because, for example, some snaps expose a wayland plug or something, that cannot yet be bound to. Don't remember the exact specifics of the discussion.

@gpatel-fr said in Problem installing snap:

@nparafe said in Problem installing snap:

Anyway, it is shown in https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/ so maybe it should be removed?

Well, it works up to a point, it's not shown with a star, that means it's not as well supported

@projectmoon said in Problem installing snap:

the snap does not fully integrate with the system due to scaling

Note that these kinds of problems can be sometimes mitigated by env variables settings, for exemple some settings like:

• with Gtk apps
  export GDK_SCALE=2

• with QT apps
  export QT_FONT_DPI=320

with snaps, there can be problems with setting env variables though, as these apps are supposed to be isolated from their environment. I don't know if this would work with your app.

Yeah this will probably at least fix the scaling issues. It is possible to pass environment variables down into snaps (though it's a pain because you must do so from terminal). But there is a missing connection at the snap level between the keyboard and the application. But that Should Be (TM) fixed with Mir 2.0... probably. Don't think anyone has tested it yet.

@nparafe Like I said, the snap does not fully integrate with the system due to scaling and keyboard issues. It's probably possible to use it with a physical keyboard, but I don't have one paired to the phone.

So I was still able to install. I also have /sys/fs/bpf. This comes from the kernel. So the only solution, really, is for the Redmi Note 7 kernel to be updated with the BPF modules, I think.

You could try getting funky and installing the kernel module yourself on an R/W filesystem (if they're even available as a kernel module package), but that is discouraged for obvious reasons.

Maybe there is a way to disable the check in the dino snap with a command line option to snap?

I have been able to install this exact snap before. Maybe it is something device-specific in the kernel?

But do note, even if you manage to get the snap working, the scaling is off, and the phone keyboard does not work in it.