Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Find out if running on a phone

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Stephen M. Webb wrote: > On 16-01-11 06:57 AM, Jani Monoses wrote: > > > > You should not do that... Why do you even want to know? > > > > Whether the app is running on the phone vs desktop? > > > > * to use different

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Find out if running on a phone

> > > You should not do that... Why do you even want to know? > > Whether the app is running on the phone vs desktop? * to use different QML since the same QML code cannot (yet) work on both * to use the content-hub for getting a file vs doing a regular file open dialog * to load contacts from the

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Find out if running on a phone

> > > Just try to exec getprop. It is only available on systems that are > > running an Android container. > > That's not working when confined, is it? > > What about passing an argument to the app only when called on the phone, via the desktop file in the click and checking for that argument? This

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] QML ContentStore example?

> > pull-import branch. I added it in this commit [4]. As you'll see, it's > pretty easy to use. You just need to create a ContentStore object and pass > it as an argument to the peer.request() calls. > > Thanks, I could not find which API call is passed the the store object :/ With this chang

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] QML ContentStore example?

Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 8:04 PM, Robert Schroll wrote: > On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 8:38 AM, Jani Monoses > wrote: > >> I have searched in vain for an example of a minimal use of ContentStore - >> such that imported files do not by default end up under ~/.cache where they &g

[Ubuntu-phone] Detect WiFi/3G/roaming?

Apart from online and limitedBandwidth properties of the NetworkingStatus element is there a way to see if we're on WiFi or 3G from QML? thanks Jani -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phon

[Ubuntu-phone] QML ContentStore example?

Hello, I have searched in vain for an example of a minimal use of ContentStore - such that imported files do not by default end up under ~/.cache where they will be deleted from. The API docs are unclear as well. Should I just instantiate a ContentStore component in the app with app scope? The

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Popup menus for action buttons?

aking use of the > toolkit-provided ActionBar where you have to use Actions to do it. > > After tomorrow, I will be on holidays so I will not be able to answer more > of your questions for a while, but probably people in #ubuntu-app-devel can > help you out. That is also a good pla

[Ubuntu-phone] Popup menus for action buttons?

Hello, what is the best way to make a custom menu like to the one that is created when the number of action buttons is too large to fit the header and several of them are grouped under a navigation icon? I'd like to use one when pressing an existing action button in the header, to group related a

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Permissions dialog for address book contacts?

> > Yes you can. > VCards contains the avatar encoded in a base64 string (VCARD > standard). You will need to parse the vcard and decode that on your > side. > If you are receiving vcards without avatar please report a bug. > You are right, thanks :) I did not see this before, I guess my contacts

[Ubuntu-phone] Permissions dialog for address book contacts?

Hello, as it was brought up before on this list and elsewhere, regular apps do not have direct access to address book contacts, and for good reason. One can get vcards via the content hub interactively, whereas the avatars are not accessible even there, needing the QtContacts API. Was the possibi

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] API to get contact avatar?

both show the contact's avatar when there > is one. > > See around this: > http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~calls-scope-team/calls-scope/calls-scope-trunk/view/head:/src/query.cpp#L247 > > Cheers, > Kyle > > > On 10/02/2015 11:26 AM, Jani Monoses wrote: > > Hello, >

[Ubuntu-phone] API to get contact avatar?

Hello, is there an API to get an address-book contact's avatar via the content hub? I know one can get a vcard's url that way, but that does not contain avatar info. thanks Jani -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : http

[Ubuntu-phone] framework and security policy changelogs?

Hello, while wondering whether I should bump the framework version of an app from 14.10 to 15.04 and the security policy version from 1.2 to 1.3 (or even 15.1 as click-review suggests?) I could use some information on what had changed between these versions. Any pointers? thanks Jani -- Mailing

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] TextSecure client prerelease

TextSecure/Signal is a secure messenger app, see https://whispersystems.org/ On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Sunday, August 23, 2015 a las 12:57:55AM +0300, Jani Monoses > escribió: > > > Hello, > > > > here's an alpha release o

[Ubuntu-phone] TextSecure client prerelease

Hello, here's an alpha release of a TextSecure client written in Go for interested developers and early users. https://github.com/janimo/textsecure-qml cheers, Jani -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpa

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] How to setup my own system-image server

You can tar the device tarball by hand, it has two top directories, partitions/ containing blobs to flash directly to mmc partitions of the same name, and system/ which contains whatever is to be unpacked over the ubuntu tarball. We usually just put /var/lib/lxc/android/system.img there, which shou

[Ubuntu-phone] Removing old channels from the image server?

Hello, there are a few channels on the image server that are very likely not in use anymore and the removal of which is unlikely to affect anyone. Is there a plan on cleaning up the list? A mix of customization channels with no easy way to tell which is maintained, and old saucy channels are the

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Renaming the Ubuntu system.img to avoid confusion?

On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:15 AM, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > The other ongoing plan is to get rid of loop-mounting image files, and > instead have them on separate partitions. > Such that "ubuntu.img" is actually just a normal, e.g. GPT partition > with a label UBUNTU, and /var/lib/lxc/android/

[Ubuntu-phone] Renaming the Ubuntu system.img to avoid confusion?

Due to it being called system.img when it was actually flashed to the Android system partition, the Ubuntu root filesystem image residing under /data/system.img can be easily confused with the Android system.img that is under /var/lib/lxc/android/system.img _inside_ the Ubuntu system.img. How abou

[Ubuntu-phone] Kernel configuration check script

While the porting wikipage has most of the kernel config options needed by Ubuntu Touch listed, it can be error prone to add and check them being correctly enabled. This script can suggest whether anything is missing from a given config file (it can be a source controller defconfig, a generated .c

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Skipping GPG verification in recovery

On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Ricardo Salveti de Araujo < ricardo.salv...@canonical.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 7:02 AM, Jani Monoses > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > during bringup and development it is helpful to skip image signature > > verificatio

[Ubuntu-phone] Skipping GPG verification in recovery

Hello, during bringup and development it is helpful to skip image signature verification and not worry about setting up GPG keychains. A common way to do it is to just add a return 0 to the verify_signature() function to the local copy of system-image-upgrader. What do you think of this patch to

[Ubuntu-phone] [ANN] Alternate local image server setup

Hello, for my use case of flashing custom device tarballs while keeping up with Ubuntu rootfs tarballs from various channels I used a server tool setup that is an alternative to the one backing system-image.ubuntu.com [1] The idea is to use a recent ubuntu-device-flash client (phablet-flash wont'

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Upcoming renaming of all system-image channels

> > Let me know if you have any questions or concerns about this. > > nitpick: So is the 'Touch' in Ubuntu Touch still being used in some contexts? I get conflicting messages as to whether we drop it everywhere, in promotional material only or nowhere at all :) Jani -- Mailing list: https://laun

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Device-Specific configs in debs

I also agree the Android build tree should have these even though they belong to the Ubuntu filesystem. The main reason is I am sure most OEMs (and even some of us) prefer copying a few files around and have as direct control over them as possible vs. building a .deb just for them with all the PPA/

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Porting] How to create a system.img for your port

Thanks, I have added most of the info from your email in a new wikipage https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Deploying Please review it and feel free to contribute to it directly Jani On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 8:18 PM, f69m wrote: > Hello, > > As the official porting guide is a little incomplete co

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Multiple frameworks for apps

> > The code currently in lp:click, which will become version 0.4.14, > extends the "framework" manifest field a bit to support this. With > this, assuming appropriate declaration files in > /usr/share/click/frameworks/, apps will be able to do something like > this: > > "frameworks": "ubuntu-14

[Ubuntu-phone] A Go tool for building click packages

Hello, To learn some more Go and also about Click package internals I wrote a tool that modulo bugs and a few corner cases replicates what the official click build and click buildsource commands do I only tested it very briefly and on a single package so far. If you have Go installed and GOPATH s

[Ubuntu-phone] Where is Jani?

Hi, starting from next Monday, December the 23rd until Jan the 6th, on vacation. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

[Ubuntu-phone] [REMINDER] Filing bugs against the Android bits

Hello, until we have a better patch review and tracking system set up please use the android package in Ubuntu for filing bugs and sending patches against the Android components. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/android This is for generic Ubuntu changes and for the officially supported

[Ubuntu-phone] AOSP 4.4 based port status

Hello, The instructions in the wiki [1] now work for the AOSP 4.4 based tree. It builds, but when booted on the Nexus 4 there are some Binder transaction errors likely preventing anything but having the container started. The hybris changes I did to adapt to 4.4 APIs definitely need more work but

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] AOSP based phablet branches

Hi, More progress has been made. This wikipage describes how to build and boot an AOSP 4.2.2 based system.img on the Nexus 4. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/AOSPBuild -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpa

[Ubuntu-phone] [DOC] Porting to non-CyanogenMod trees

Hello, I started a wikipage on how to use our patches on Android trees that are based on AOSP, CodeAurora or others besides CyanogenMod. The information is not new but it had not been written up in a single place before. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/PortingNewTree Jani -- Mailing list: https:/

[Ubuntu-phone] AOSP based phablet branches

Hello, for those wanting to base their ports on AOSP instead of CyanogenMod there are now work in progress branches based on the android tags 4.2.2_r1 (builds fine) 4.3.1_r1 (builds apart from hybris) and 4.4_r1 (porting work in progress) The branch manifests include the ubuntu specific projects

[Ubuntu-phone] [PATCH] ubuntu/upstart-property-watcher explicit link to liblog

Hello, this patch is needed in AOSP 4.3/4.4 to build the upstart component. In 4.2 liblog probably gets linked indirectly. Jani From bd9e9dc121a4e388a5f60d0c543b3a89c41ca22f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jani Monoses Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 23:28:26 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Explicitly link

[Ubuntu-phone] Patches against AOSP 4.2.2_r1

Hello, The phablet/phablet-4.2.2_r1 branches in the phablet repositories are adapted so they apply against a clean AOSP 4.2.2 tree. This is work in progress I am testing with Nexus 4. While it does not yet boot into Unity just into a shell it can help those basing their ports on something closer

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Porting issues

for clarifications! > I see I need to finish porting phablet changes into recovery to make my > life simpler :-) > > > > 2013/11/6 Jani Monoses > >> unflipped will not work anymore, all the super evil hacks it used are >> >>> gone from the rootfs since over

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Porting issues

unflipped will not work anymore, all the super evil hacks it used are > gone from the rootfs since over 6 months, please only use (and > recommend) the flipped method. > > >From the recent thread on this list saying the cdimage-legacy option of phablet-flash is to be kept around I figured that unf

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Porting issues

stall some zip which in turn contain device-independent tar.gz > > Right, this one requires autodeploy via recovery, it is not covered by the standard fastboot style upload methods. Step #2 seems unnecessary but does not impact the install procedure. > > Right. Jani > > >

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Porting issues

ld it become something like > cm-10.1-20131101-UNOFFICIAL-tilapia.zip which is generated by Android build? > > Also, it is unclear for me whether this step is really needed after > fastbooting recovery, boot, system in the first step? > > > 2013/11/6 Jani Monoses > >> --

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Porting issues

- > Either way, you'll need the Ubuntu preinstalled image besides the one > you're going to build with the instructions below. You can find the Ubuntu > preinstalled images > here > . > > Probably there should be some i

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Porting issues

be used by ubuntu? build.prop > and fstab.? > > BTW, as i said I use tilapia build for comparison, I did not realize when > this var/lib/lxc/android/system.img is created (I looked in recovery > scripts too). Is this some bug or should I use some other device (ex. mako) > ?

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Porting issues

Hi, that system.img should be the one built from your CodeAurora tree and then turned into a regular ext4 image on your build machine $simg2img system.img new.img $resize2fs -M new.img In recovery mode #mkdir a #mount /data/system.img a On the host $adb push new.img /a/var/lib/lxc/android/syste

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Trusty image 10 (20131031.1) now available

Hi, how hard would it be to provide merged changelog files between released images as opposed to the separate daily builds? For regression testing it may help easily finding the changes that introduced a bug based only on users reporting the image number they were using. Jani On Mon, Nov 4, 201

[Ubuntu-phone] Using repo only to get the Android sources

The modules ubuntu/platform-api and ubuntu/hybris have recently been mirrored into git repos, so all the tree can now be checked out using only the tools already familiar to Android ROM developers and builders, namely repo and git. ubuntu-dev-bootstrap is still a working wrapper but it is not as ne

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Error when fetch libhybris and building libhybris

Hi what version of the ROM tree you have checked out? In the latest phablet-saucy envsetup.sh no longer pulls hybris, as the latter has its own git repo in ubuntu/hybris that is fetched by repo sync. So try updating to the latest tree first and see if you encounter any errors. Jani On Mon, Oct

[Ubuntu-phone] [PATCH] Remove references to uchroot

These patches remove the uchroot git repo from the phablet-saucy manifest and the uchroot and ubuntu_chroot modules from the build list. They are not used in the flipped model which has been the default for a while and which is the only one supported in the phablet-saucy branch. 0001-Remove-refe

[Ubuntu-phone] Building i386 touch images locally?

As an experiment I'd like to get a local build of the daily Ubuntu touch images for i386. Can anyone get this working or reproduce an error? I get maliit-keyboard dependencies not found while debootstrapping. #!/bin/bash mkdir auto ln -sf /usr/share/livecd-rootfs/live-build/auto/* auto/ export

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] patch to fix the kernel cmdline handling

Do you have an udev rule setting the graphics related device node accessible by non-root too ? On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 11:21 PM, András Mamenyák wrote: > And logcat: http://paste.ubuntu.com/5941366/ > > > On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 10:05 PM, András Mamenyák wrote: > >> IT WORKS! >> >> Thank you, my N

[Ubuntu-phone] Huawei Ascend P1 porting experience notes

Hello, I had a Huawei Ascend P1 (u9200) phone booting Ubuntu Touch a few months ago and managed to successfully update the port to use the latest sources today. My attempt to update to the new flipped model and to use the phablet-saucy branch of the Android ROM resulted in the following experien

[Ubuntu-phone] Mirroring the repository

Hello, A new mirror manifest is now in place so local mirrors of the phablet tree can be created mkdir phablet-mirror cd phablet-mirror repo init -u git://phablet.ubuntu.com/CyanogenMod/mirror/manifest --mirror repo sync To init a working tree from a local mirror do repo init -u /path/to/phable

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [PATCH] platform manifest fetch URL

accessing the network. The previous patch with the relative path will need applying to phablet-10.1 before checking out with -b phablet-10.1 can take advantage of a local mirror. Jani On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Jani Monoses wrote: > In order for the phablet repo to work when mirrored

[Ubuntu-phone] [PATCH] platform manifest fetch URL

In order for the phablet repo to work when mirrored [1], the manifest used to checkout a working tree needs to use relative paths and not a hardcoded URL. This is what the AOSP manifests have as well. This patch applies to both the saucy and the phablet-10.1 branches. Jani [1] http://source.andr

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Fwd: Remove TI/panda support

> > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Jani Monoses wrote: >> >> device/ti/panda seems not to be needed by our official devices, this >> patch removes it from the default manifest > > > What do we benefit from removing it? > > Seems to me like it doesn'

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [PATCH] Do not try starting vold, netd, keystore and app_process from init.rc

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Ricardo Salveti de Araujo wrote: > On 04/18/2013 10:55 AM, Sergio Schvezov wrote: >> >> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:59:23AM +0300, Jani Monoses wrote: >>> >>> I attach a patch that disables starting these in init.rc to avoid such

[Ubuntu-phone] Is uchroot deprecated?

Hello, are non-flipped images still supported in some way? I see uchroot in the repo manifest and the kernel patch to proc/ mentioned in the porting guide. thanks -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.n

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ebook reader?

> on a more "capable" environment server-side. Qt Quick apps have the distinct > advantage of being native and therefore having access to some native > capability. Taking the example of Monocle that I mentioned, it's entirely > possible to write an ebook reader in pure client-side JavaScript in mod

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [PATCH] Fix mako kernel build with stock gcc 4.7

I just saw that the nexus 4 image build uses the linux-nexus4 kernel package from the official raring archives, and that already has build fixes included. So never mind this patch :) On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Jani Monoses wrote: > These two patches allow arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc 4.7.3 f

[Ubuntu-phone] [PATCH] Fix mako kernel build with stock gcc 4.7

These two patches allow arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc 4.7.3 from Ubuntu 13.04 to build a booting mako kernel image. Patch 1) scripts/gcc-wrapper is a python tool that is used in some Qualcomm/Code Aurora kernels containing a whitelist of warning messages generated during the build and fail on any non-li

[Ubuntu-phone] [PATCH] Enable dumpsys

The dumpsys tool is useful for getting information about the state of SurfaceFlinger and other services and is helpful when porting to a new device and debugging various HAL components. This patch enables it in the build. thanks Jani 0001-Build-dumpsys-tool.patch Description: Binary data -- Ma

[Ubuntu-phone] HW VSYNC question

On a Huawei Ascend P1 device I am testing I have a very sluggish UI and logcat has lots of these: W/SurfaceFlinger( 136): Timed out waiting for hw vsync; faking it Not knowing much about SurfaceFlinger and the HWComposer (version 1.0 used here based on ICS proprietary blobs and libraries) I manag

[Ubuntu-phone] Remove TI/panda support

device/ti/panda seems not to be needed by our official devices, this patch removes it from the default manifest 0001-Remove-device-ti-panda.patch Description: Binary data -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://lau

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [PATCH] Do not try starting vold, netd, keystore and app_process from init.rc

Revised patch that removes those lines and bootanim too. cheers Jani On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Sergio Schvezov wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 05:02:55PM +0300, Jani Monoses wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Ricardo Salveti de Araujo >> wrote: >> >

[Ubuntu-phone] Huawei Ascend P1 WIP port

Hi, I added a new page for the Huawei Ascend P1. For now it only boots into the Phone UI and does not do much else, but I'll keep improving it hopefully. This is a device with a SoC similar to the one in the Galaxy Nexus, but ships only with Android 4.0.3 and is not supported by CyanogenMod. http

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [PATCH] Do not try starting vold, netd, keystore and app_process from init.rc

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Ricardo Salveti de Araujo wrote: > On 04/18/2013 10:55 AM, Sergio Schvezov wrote: >> >> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:59:23AM +0300, Jani Monoses wrote: >>> >>> I attach a patch that disables starting these in init.rc to avoid such

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Choice of included ARM toolchains

> I'm working on removing the not needed ones at least, but I'm not yet > convinced that we should remove all and just reuse whatever is available in > the archive (at least not at this point). I agree. I found the raring default cross-toolchain failed to build mako's kernel a while ago, and none

[Ubuntu-phone] Choice of included ARM toolchains

Hi, I notice there are a four ARM cross compilers for linux-x86 in our tree. Is it because various hw has been only shown to build and work correctly with a specific one only? ./prebuilt/linux-x86/toolchain/arm-eabi-4.4.3/ ./prebuilts/gcc/linux-x86/arm/arm-linux-androideabi-4.6/ ./prebuilts/gcc/l

[Ubuntu-phone] [PATCH] Do not try starting vold, netd, keystore and app_process from init.rc

I was confused by these error messages in dmesg when porting to a new device, thinking some are vendor binaries I need to add to vendor/ . <3>[1, init] [6.016357] init: cannot find '/system/bin/vold', disabling 'vold' <3>[1, init] [6.018890] init: cannot find '/system/bin/netd', disabling

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] You can now have breakfast to enable devices

I see the nexus device/ and kernel/ repos were removed and should be downloaded using breakfast. Is device/ti/panda still needed? Jani On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Sergio Schvezov wrote: > The device enabling has changed since we made the necessary mods to the > roomservice tool, so now you

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] BOOT = BlackScreen, ADB working

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Petr Bláha wrote: > Hi all, > > I am so tired with compilation and with this odd error with booting to > BlackScreen. Yesterday I made big step back to determine what I am doing > wrong. I have reinstalled my Ubuntu 12.10 on new partition and made upgrade > of all

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Frequency of CyanogenMod syncs?

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Sergio Schvezov < sergio.schve...@canonical.com> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 02:41:51AM -0700, Christopher Noel Hesse wrote: > > I guess not. Furthermore I assume we already have the latest Android > 4.2.1 > > codebase from CM-10.1. > > We don't do it automati

[Ubuntu-phone] Frequency of CyanogenMod syncs?

Hello, looking at the helpful daily changelogs I see the so far empty field for Android repo sync, which makes sense as most development needs to happen on the Ubuntu side. Is the Android side updated when CM upstream makes milestone releases? thanks Jani -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/