ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Simos Xenitellis <simos.lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 12:28 AM, Caesar Samsi <cmsamsi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [Sorry, now resending with my list address]
>
> The users will use a normal GUI app. The command line tools are development
> tools needed to make the daemons.
>

I understand that you may not want to give details that can identify your app.
If you are looking for a dedicated app, that is, someone gets an
Ubuntu mobile device
specifically in order to run your app, then this should be doable.

If, however, you want your app to be installable from the store so
that anyone can pick it up,
then you have to check those restrictions in the platform that are
forced in order to allow
the phone to work properly (for example, an app should not have root
access, not deplete the battery, etc).

You may have to refactor your code so that it uses what is provided by
the Ubuntu phone platform.
Or, you can plan to focus on Snappy (when it gets available on the
phone) that allows to put all your code in a Linux container
and have it separated from the other apps. Not sure about the details;
it's what Robert said earlier.

> If I can SSH to the Ubuntu Phone, I'm mostly there (provided the Ubuntu
> Phone Linux platform is compatible, e.g. has openjdk and other libraries).
>
> We've proven the concept in Raspbian.
>

You can SSH to the phone and you can probably install (as root) most
of these packages.
The phone will be in an unsupported state however.

My recommendation from the information that you provided, is that you
may need to
make an IoT implementation. That is, have a developer board with Ubuntu Snappy,
http://www.ubuntu.com/things
and install there openjdk and other libraries. The BeagleBoard Black
and ODROID-C1 should work well.
Then, the phone will control the developer board so you just put the
UI part on the phone.

Simos

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sturmflut [mailto:sturmflut@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 3:39 PM
> To: Caesar Samsi; ubuntu-phone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-phone] How to start with Ubuntu Phone?
>
> Good evening,
>
>
> On 17.06.2015 02:45, Caesar Samsi wrote:
>
>> I am keen to start development but don't know where to start.
>>
>> We're researching porting a Linux application to Ubuntu phone.
>>
>> The Linux application consists of daemons and command line tools.
>
>
> Hm, how will a "normal" phone user use an application that consists of
> daemons and command line tools? Through the terminal?
>
> cheers,
> Simon
>
>
>
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