Re: [Ubuntu-phone] The eternal promises

2016-07-27 Thread Omer Akram
This person have been quite disrespectful in their non-constructive criticism for a long time, its a bit offensive for me and many like me who work to make Ubuntu better. I kindly request the list admins to either send a warning or remove this person from the list. a longtime Ubuntu member.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Store username/password

2016-05-19 Thread Omer Akram
Hi! if you are the owner of the web service, I would suggest to change the authentication to token-based. If its a third-party service, then you might probably want to check if the service supports a more secure way to authenticate/login. If the web service really only supports basic

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Libertine - user folders

2016-04-28 Thread Omer Akram
Hi Stephen, While it would be really great if *all* the apps were updated to scale properly on all kind of screen resolutions, I am afraid that's not something we can expect to happen. What we could try is to use a similar technique as of gnome and scale everything 2X, then use xrandr'

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] POC: Recycling ListView items

2016-04-18 Thread Omer Akram
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Alberto Mardegan < alberto.marde...@canonical.com> wrote: > On 18/04/2016 13:57, Omer Akram wrote: > > While working on a pet project[1] for the Phone, an issue that I faced > > was stuttering scrolling in listviews. QML tips page[2] suggested

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] POC: Recycling ListView items

2016-04-18 Thread Omer Akram
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 4:41 PM, Andrea Bernabei < andrea.berna...@canonical.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Omer Akram <omer.ak...@canonical.com> > wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> While working on a pet project[1] for the Phone, an i

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] POC: Recycling ListView items

2016-04-18 Thread Omer Akram
> mailing list. > > Br, > Michael > > On 18.04.2016 12:57, Omer Akram wrote: > > Hi! > > > > While working on a pet project[1] for the Phone, an issue that I faced > > was stuttering scrolling in listviews. QML tips page[2] suggested to use > >

[Ubuntu-phone] POC: Recycling ListView items

2016-04-18 Thread Omer Akram
Hi! While working on a pet project[1] for the Phone, an issue that I faced was stuttering scrolling in listviews. QML tips page[2] suggested to use Flickable+Column+Repeater combination to have smooth scrolling, that worked and is currently what I have implemented in my app but I always thought

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] App crash on QMediaPlayer object creation

2016-03-28 Thread Omer Akram
g your > crash I can help you dive a little deeper in figuring this out. > > On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 7:39 AM, Omer Akram <om2...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> I am trying to use QMediaPlayer in my app to play internet streams. The >> reason I am not u

[Ubuntu-phone] App crash on QMediaPlayer object creation

2016-03-26 Thread Omer Akram
Hi! I am trying to use QMediaPlayer in my app to play internet streams. The reason I am not using the QML MediaPlayer component is because due to some reason the MediaPlayer.play() halts the app for the time of initial buffering. So I am wanting to use QMediaPlayer for playback but it seems as

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] SDK planning

2016-03-22 Thread Omer Akram
at 12:25 PM, Omer Akram <om2...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > >> Android provides AsyncTask[1] to do exactly that. So basically it >> provides a few override methods >> >> You have the WorkerScripts [1] doing multithreading in your QML. See an > example [2] ho

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] SDK planning

2016-03-22 Thread Omer Akram
Thanks Mike, QNetworkAccessManager did the trick and it really is convenient. On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 8:52 PM, Michael Terry <michael.te...@canonical.com> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 6:25 AM, Omer Akram <om2...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > >> Perhaps we could provid

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] alternative to XMLHttpRequest ?

2016-03-21 Thread Omer Akram
2016-03-21 12:09 GMT+03:00 Omer Akram <omer.ak...@canonical.com>: > >> Hi! >> >> I am writing a soundcloud client and the issue I am seeing right now is >> that the response with 302 status is automatically redirected, this is fine >> in most cases but for m

[Ubuntu-phone] alternative to XMLHttpRequest ?

2016-03-21 Thread Omer Akram
Hi! I am writing a soundcloud client and the issue I am seeing right now is that the response with 302 status is automatically redirected, this is fine in most cases but for me, it ends up downloading the whole track to some unknown location. I don't want that since I want to stream the track and

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] How to check if internet is connected

2016-03-20 Thread Omer Akram
Thanks Dan for the link, can you please point to a client implementation of this API ? that will help a lot. On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Dan Chapman <dpn...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On Sunday, 20 March 2016 09:50:18 GMT, Omer Akram <om2...@ubuntu.com> > wrote: > >> Hi

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] SDK planning

2016-03-20 Thread Omer Akram
Hi! I would like for our platform to be more strict about apps doing network operations in the main thread. This is something that would largely help our apps stay smooth and snappy. As an example Android does not allow developers to do network requests on the UI thread, any such attempt results

[Ubuntu-phone] How to check if internet is connected

2016-03-20 Thread Omer Akram
Hi! I am writing a very simple utility in which I need to check if a network connection is currently established or not. For example if wifi or data connection is connected. At the same time I would also like to know if I can use a signal for change in network connectivity e.g. when wifi is

[Ubuntu-phone] adb not working on latest

2015-10-28 Thread Omer Akram
Hi! On channel ubuntu-touch/rc-proposed/meizu.en adb seems to not be working, I enabled it from the 'Developer mode' settings, the USB connection gets re-initialized but 'adb devices' shows nothing, I also tried -proposed. Anyone else seeing that, any help appreciated. Thanks! -- Mailing list:

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Application startup

2015-08-06 Thread Omer Akram
Hey! I remember you started a thread[1] a while ago, re: app launch time. Did you investigate that time into this? Perhaps that mechanism could be adapted to current Ubuntu ? [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2013-June/037303.html On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Alberto

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Confirmation of Galaxy nexus (non) support

2014-09-19 Thread Omer Akram
Hi! Development on Galaxy Nexus have been stopped. That entry in the wiki page was just not updated/removed. So, no, you cannot upgrade anymore :) On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 9:43 PM, Michel RENON re...@mr-consultant.net wrote: I know that Galaxy Nexus is not supported anymore (and mine had no

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 05.06.14

2014-06-05 Thread Omer Akram
Hi! On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 10:05 PM, Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak lukasz.zemc...@canonical.com wrote: Hello everyone! Still no promotions and still more firefighting. This means we are officially entering TRAINCON-0 again meaning: no more blind landings happening until we're back to normal.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 25.03.14

2014-03-25 Thread Omer Akram
Ok so I have done the investigation and proposed a solution. There are two problems one is that the sample video for the tests is not really being played due to some missing codecs, the other is that the mediaplayer app seems to think its playing a video even if its not able to play the video due

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 20.03.14

2014-03-24 Thread Omer Akram
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Michał Sawicz michal.saw...@canonical.comwrote: On 24.03.2014 13:24, David Marceau wrote: BUG #1 I noticed when I press the power button to wake up, the clock display is a couple of minutes behind and then it takes about 5 seconds before it refreshes to

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Incoming call pop up too small and too high!

2014-03-10 Thread Omer Akram
One thing I would like to mention here is with my use of Ubuntu on my phone for a few months now, I have many times mistakenly picked up or declined the call while trying to get my phone out of my pocket, because I happened to tap on that' part of the screen On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 8:19 PM,

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Nexus 7 problem

2014-03-09 Thread Omer Akram
Hey! If adb is not enabled you can go back to android from fastboot. First download the factory images for your Nexus 7 from here https://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/nakasi-kot49h-factory-5e9db5e1.tgz and extract it. Make sure you are in Bootloader mode (fastboot) then just exectute

[Ubuntu-phone] [Design] Tabbar height is too much to be usable

2014-03-06 Thread Omer Akram
Hola list, I am a full time user of the Ubuntu on my Phone and with time and by comparing to different OS out there I have realized that the height of the tabbar is a bit too much, its taking a good part of the screen space. I believe its something that needs to be discussed and the height needs

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 25.02.14

2014-02-26 Thread Omer Akram
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 1:37 AM, Bill Filler bill.fil...@canonical.comwrote: 5. gallery-app (Bill) It seems there is a timeout (and a flaky test) on that one (passed on a rerun, but not yesterday nor today on first run):

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] AOSP 4.4.2 based images are finally available via the trusty-proposed channel

2014-02-24 Thread Omer Akram
I had android 4.4.2 installed on my phone so I did: phablet-flash ubuntu-system --channel trusty-proposed -b -d mako --revision 205 it did all its voodoo, and for 1-2 minutes rotating android screen came but on reboot, it started back to android 4.4.2, i.e. no Ubuntu. Thanks! On Sun, Feb 23,

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] AOSP 4.4.2 based images are finally available via the trusty-proposed channel

2014-02-24 Thread Omer Akram
schrieb Omer Akram: I had android 4.4.2 installed on my phone so I did: phablet-flash ubuntu-system --channel trusty-proposed -b -d mako --revision 205 phablet-flash is deprecated, use: ubuntu-device-flash -channel=trusty-proposed -bootstrap=true (from the package with the same name

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] wifi not detected on Nexus 4, build 121

2014-01-12 Thread Omer Akram
Hey! This happens when you install Ubuntu on a phone that has android 4.4 so now you need to first flash android 4.3 on that phone and then installing Ubuntu should have no problems with your wifi. Thanks! On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Sayantan Das sayanta...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I

[Ubuntu-phone] [Design] Vertical scrolling in dash is hard to grasp

2013-11-29 Thread Omer Akram
Hi! While using Ubuntu on the phone I am faced a constant problem i.e. I am not able to find the app I want to run in the Dash, even though its clearly infront of me. The reason for that is the type of scrolling that we have in the dash makes the position of apps icon unpredictable. Expand the

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Nexus 5

2013-11-16 Thread Omer Akram
I was wondering about that as well, its something I would really like to know before considering one. On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Wil Neeley bentchic...@gmail.com wrote: Will ubuntu touch be officially supported on the Nexus 5? -- Wil Neeley -- Mailing list:

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu SDK simple touch ui

2013-11-03 Thread Omer Akram
I think that's a compiz problem, can you report that for compiz with the steps to reproduce the issue. On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 1:50 AM, Nekhelesh Ramananthan krnekhel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Kurt, I have noticed that issue as well. When I run the .qml file, it open a blank window. However on

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] MeeGo applauncherd: faster application startup and more

2013-10-30 Thread Omer Akram
I think this is something that should be looked into, this cycle. We really nned faster startup for apps :) On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Thomas Voß thomas.v...@canonical.comwrote: On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Michael Zanetti michael.zane...@canonical.com wrote: On Monday 17 June

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] camera-app vs. webbrowser-app autopilot dependencies

2013-10-21 Thread Omer Akram
Hello! webbrowser-app-autopilot depends on ubuntu-ui-toolkit-autopilot which provides reusable emulators(helpers) to easily interact with different components of the ubuntu-ui-toolkit while writing autopilot tests. The dependencies come from there. Many other apps depend on

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Is pragmatically taking a screenshot possible?

2013-09-29 Thread Omer Akram
You could also use this small tool. http://ubuntuone.com/7KQ1GdgJQjglgMORs6YJuH Just copy it to /usr/local/bin/ on your system and run it globally while the phone is connected with the cable. On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 11:46 PM, Khairul Aizat Kamarudzzaman fen...@ubuntu.com wrote: screenshot

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Keyboard not showing up

2013-09-24 Thread Omer Akram
The trick is to move away from that app to the Dash and then focus the app again. Works always for the Terminal app for me. On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Gustavo Niemeyer gustavo.nieme...@canonical.com wrote: Are there any known tricks when the on screen keyboard refuses to show up?

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] error while flashing using ubuntu-system

2013-09-21 Thread Omer Akram
Did you unlock the device first? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Install#Step_2_-_Device_unlock On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Sayantan Das sayanta...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am getting the following error while flashing INFO:phablet-flash:Restarting device... wait

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Enabling mir on the latest builds

2013-09-13 Thread Omer Akram
, Omer Akram omer.ak...@canonical.comwrote: hey Is there a way to flash the daily-proposed image through phablet-flash ? maybe an argument for phablet-flash ubuntu-system ? On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Sergio Schvezov sergio.schve...@canonical.com wrote: From now on, the latest

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Enabling mir on the latest builds

2013-09-13 Thread Omer Akram
hey Is there a way to flash the daily-proposed image through phablet-flash ? maybe an argument for phablet-flash ubuntu-system ? On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Sergio Schvezov sergio.schve...@canonical.com wrote: From now on, the latest builds coming in can have mir swapped in instead of

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [design] scrolling in apps is not accelerated

2013-08-31 Thread Omer Akram
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Omer Akram omer.ak...@canonical.comwrote: Hey everyone, The scrolling in the apps is not accelerated i.e. if we scroll multiple times while a list is scrolling that does not fasten the scroll. This is different from all other phone OS that I tried. I am

[Ubuntu-phone] [design] scrolling in apps is not accelerated

2013-08-29 Thread Omer Akram
Hey everyone, The scrolling in the apps is not accelerated i.e. if we scroll multiple times while a list is scrolling that does not fasten the scroll. This is different from all other phone OS that I tried. I am not sure if its a bug or not but I have seen this issue for a while now and didn't

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-08-07 Thread Omer Akram
Hey! On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 7:38 PM, leon lee llr...@qq.com wrote: I think ubuntu's marketing people are targeting the wrong segment. Yes, ubuntu edge seems to be innovative, but it's not enough for the high end market. With poor branding in mobile and pc desktop market, normal high end

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-08-07 Thread Omer Akram
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 8:01 PM, leon lee llr...@qq.com wrote: I hope you're not working in ubuntu marketing department. :) From the marketing view, every product starts from STP: segment, target, positioning. Every product should have a very specific segment. Factors like design/pricing etc.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Reporting and tracking user facing bugs in Unity Next

2013-04-08 Thread Omer Akram
So what becomes of the existing Unity bugs that we have in launchpad? From what i know the launchpad project for Unity is going to be the same i.e. launchpad.net/unity so new bug tracking will become difficult to handle. Should we discuss something on that ? On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 6:28 PM, John