ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Michael Zanetti <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 13.04.2015 16:29, Johan Velthuizen wrote:
> Thought Ubuntu was opensource, but when we want to write software for
> this Ubuntu Phone we can't due security.
> How can we ever write useful software if we don't have access to the
> sources.

You can. You just won't be able to publish it in the official Ubuntu
Store. The reason for that is to protect the user. The way app stores
work in today's world, is to inject random binaries into people phones.
I for one am quite happy that the Ubuntu App Store has those measures in
place to protect me from malicious apps.

On the other hand, I agree that those restrictions on apps also mean
some limitation in the usefulness of apps being published in the store.

However, as you mentioned yourself, Ubuntu is open source and you can
very well create an app that does everything you want. In that case you
either need to distribute it yourself somehow, or use something like
this: http://notyetthere.org/openstore-tweakgeek-and-more/

Best regards,
Michael

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> Op 13-04-15 om 16:15 schreef Jonas Drange:
>> There's a discussion in [1] about this. I suspect you will not be able
>> to do this from an app due to security.
>>
>> Jonas
>>
>> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-system-settings/+bug/1287267
>>
>> On 13 April 2015 at 16:00, Johan Velthuizen <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:info@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>>     We want to build an App to measure the data usage of the Ubuntu Phone.
>>     Is there any information available where and how we can read this
>>     information.
>>     We are using QML or Javascript with QMcreator and Ubuntu SDK
>>
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