Full desktop? - Ubuntu Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Just wondering, is the current Ubuntu Touch supporting a full desktop when connected to a monitor like through an HDMI?
I saw videos from Ubuntu on this feature and wanted to know if it working?
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It's not working yet. Canonical has proven that the concept can work by its Ubuntu for Android project. After the release of version 14.04 two weeks ago, they will start work on bringing Unity 8 (the desktop environment, current desktop version is 7 while the phone version is already Unity 8) and the Mir display server to the desktop. Afterwards, it should theoretically be possible to do that stuff. Additionally, they will continue to improve their SDK for the development of Ubuntu apps which already work on all platforms (phone, tablet and desktop) and adjust to screen size.
The whole concept is what they call Convergence.

nikwen said:
It's not working yet. Canonical has proven that the concept can work by its Ubuntu for Android project. After the release of version 14.04 two weeks ago, they will start work on bringing Unity 8 (the desktop environment, current desktop version is 7 while the phone version is already Unity 8) and the Mir display server to the desktop. Afterwards, it should theoretically be possible to do that stuff. Additionally, they will continue to improve their SDK for the development of Ubuntu apps which already work on all platforms (phone, tablet and desktop) and adjust to screen size.
The whole concept is what they call Convergence.
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Some of their ideas for convergence are quite awesome. The recent news has been that they have stopped the Ubuntu for Android project. I have been wondering since where their views on complete integration, their "one device to rule the all" direction, is heading.
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abumy said:
Some of their ideas for convergence are quite awesome. The recent news has been that they have stopped the Ubuntu for Android project. I have been wondering since where their views on complete integration, their "one device to rule the all" direction, is heading.
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Yep, I totally agree, full convergence will be awesome. I'm eagerly waiting for it.

I only used ubuntu on the pc

tercelman said:
I only used ubuntu on the pc
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At present me too.
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abumy said:
At present me too.
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It's great on both PC and mobile. However, on mobile it still has a long way to go until it reaches the state when it can be used by the average end-user. Keep in mind that it's making progress very fast though.

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Porting applications

Is it possible to port a silver light web application into an android app? How would one go about doing this?
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SuperDefcon5 said:
Is it possible to port a silver light web application into an android app? How would one go about doing this?
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I think there was some work done a while ago to port the Linux Silverlight alternative called Moonlight to Android. I don't think it got very far.
Moonlight is missing some things like DRM which Microsoft won't share (no surprise there) so things like Netflix won't work.
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Äptiva said:
I think there was some work done a while ago to port the Linux Silverlight alternative called Moonlight to Android. I don't think it got very far.
Moonlight is missing some things like DRM which Microsoft won't share (no surprise there) so things like Netflix won't work.
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Would it be possible to port an silver light application to java and then to android?
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That I couldn't tell you. I would imagine you could just write it in Java or C# and make it Android native though

Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu Touch?

Hi, I just wondering if its planned to contact with Mozilla in order to try to get a version of Mozilla to ubuntu for phone and tablets, it would be great!
Nope . Inhouse browser webkit based. No more mozilla. :thumbup:
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macpherson1999 said:
Hi, I just wondering if its planned to contact with Mozilla in order to try to get a version of Mozilla to ubuntu for phone and tablets, it would be great!
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Mozilla's engineering efforts are probably too focused on their own phone OS at the moment to consider porting their browser to others.
mhall119 said:
Mozilla's engineering efforts are probably too focused on their own phone OS at the moment to consider porting their browser to others.
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I suppose so too. Default browser in ubuntu images for phone is made by Canonical? Is going to be the default browser insted of chromium, firefox or another browser that can appear?
Yep.
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Qml qt firefox
As I am aware of Mozilla already has a coded app for Firefox Meego
which has the same luanguge although not built in ubuntus sdk it does run in qt qml.
I can be simply ported in a matter of weeks but I doubt
Cannonical will do so for ubuntu touch and mozilla is focused on other more established.platforms ill ask around gplus and nokia forums maybe we can have community members help to port it
Why
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when i type apt-get install firefox he install firefox but don't have any app and i didn't edit sources.list

Ubuntu Touch App Development Contest

Canonical is kicking off an app developer competition for Ubuntu Touch and the new Ubuntu SDK! It's a 6 week contest where you can build a new original app for Ubuntu Touch or port an exiting app from another platform. We have three Nexus 4 phones that will be given away as prizes, running Ubuntu Touch of course, and with the winning apps pre-installed on them.
http://developer.ubuntu.com/2013/08/announcing-the-2013-ubuntu-app-showdown-contest/
Evil1Art1ZGEY said:
I would enter an app, but do not know how to make Ubuntu apps as I am just learning to develop for android
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You can write apps in HTML5 or C++
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Ubuntu Touch for x64?

Sorry, i don't really get it yet... Does it run entirely on android? If so, how does it differ from launchers? And can it run on other linux kernel, specifically a x64 one? I would like to have a touch-friendly linux on my tablet which i could dual-boot with windows 8.1 (x64 version, not RT) without using any virtualizing, emulating, or buggy workarounds like android-x86...
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pauliusval99 said:
Sorry, i don't really get it yet... Does it run entirely on android? If so, how does it differ from launchers? And can it run on other linux kernel, specifically a x64 one? I would like to have a touch-friendly linux on my tablet which i could dual-boot with windows 8.1 (x64 version, not RT) without using any virtualizing, emulating, or buggy workarounds like android-x86...
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Use a better wm/de on ubuntu x64 that's better for touch rather than looking at ubuntu arm
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JustSueMe said:
Use a better wm/de on ubuntu x64 that's better for touch rather than looking at ubuntu arm
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Can you suggest me a WM or a DE suitable for touch? I have tried kde active, but it launched into the regular kde
That's here and it's called Ubuntu Desktop Next. Basically the Ubuntu desktop with the phone and tablet UI.
Download link: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-desktop-next/daily-live/current/

Mono/Xamarin developed app

hi
sorry if these qns are not allow in this forum. but im trying to develop an app that will be for both android and ios. xamarin seems promissing in this field but are there alot of apps developed with this technology?
i already have the prototype of my app in Java so now im stuck whether to port the app to objective c or c# for xamarin.
monkeymon said:
hi
sorry if these qns are not allow in this forum. but im trying to develop an app that will be for both android and ios. xamarin seems promissing in this field but are there alot of apps developed with this technology?
i already have the prototype of my app in Java so now im stuck whether to port the app to objective c or c# for xamarin.
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My company has used it. I believe it's around $1,000 USD per license. It works well for our apps we have made. The apps are quite basic and basically present documents and record a score the user gives it.
sem1845 said:
My company has used it. I believe it's around $1,000 USD per license. It works well for our apps we have made. The apps are quite basic and basically present documents and record a score the user gives it.
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Do you have any issue with the current ART runtime?
We haven't tried using ART with it.
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