Hello. First I apologize if what I will explain its because of my misunderstanding or if did something wrong.
I have at least 2 month trying to develop a native Facebook app. I like Ubuntu phone proposal and I like the road that is set for it. So I want to contribute to it with something end users will love. I always thought that native applications are much faster and nicest than html5 apps or webapps like in this case for Facebook. So I follow the guides on the developers.ubuntu.com and install the Ubuntu SDK or QTCreator IDE then an emulator since I don't have a real phone. Here comes my first struggle, there are so many channels and that multiplied by the arch which should I use. First of all for starters developers I thing that should be just a simple option and easy to start developing with the latest and proposed options. Then we could have more customizable options so experts can choose the options they want. Now about the real issue that present to me, I create an emulator for the developer channel using i386 arch since should be fastest that armhf but I end up with an emulator with and old image and after that the SDK do not recognize the device. So I start again this time choosing an stable and this time I end up with a device looking like desktop. At the end after a lot of trials I manage to create a device, nice lets move on. I got to the options SDK section and select to create one for my arch with the latest 15.04 version. With my slow connection this took at least 5 tries since at least one package fails to download and the whole chroot fails so I need to start again. This a real pain .. Is really annoying how easily this can be broke. But finally it create one. Great. So now I start my application to run on the device and what was my surprise that the device image do not have the latest SDK 15.04 but 14.10. Tier of trying I create another SDK target this time for the 14.10 version and run my app again. This time to fail because the components 1.2 its not available until 15.04. Conclusions. It's really really hard to start developing and app with so much tools to install and configure. If Ubuntu phone will have am opportunity in the market its not just the OS but the collections of good and common used apps like social networks that will attract end users other wise Ubuntu phone will end up as same as on desktop just for developers and enthusiast. Please let try to move the things in a better direction I really think uphone has a great future if we aim at the right target.
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