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["Marco A. Harrendorf" <marcokarlo@xxxxxx>]

Hello all,

Am Dienstag, den 15.09.2015, 09:55 +0800 schrieb James Henstridge:
> On 15 September 2015 at 04:54, Marco Graziotti <graziottimarco@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi list,
> >
> > I saw in this official video realized by "Ubuntu Development"
> > https://youtu.be/Hoa6RwnCq1g a tablet with Ubuntu Touch installed that
> > show a Skype app (not a web app version), and Firefox browser installed too.
> > How it's possible?
> >
> > It's possible to install this app? if yes, how I can do it. I need to
> > install Skype.
> >
> 
> So there are two things that made it possible to run Skype in that video:
> 
> 1. The tablet had XMir set up to allow running X11 apps under Unity8.
> 

Using XMir and running X11 ARM apps on your smart phone is possible. I
showed that one could run Firefox or Chrome already 3 months before.
Check out the following old thread Convergence, Browser and WebRTC

> 2. The tablet has an x86 processor allowing it to run the Skype binaries
> released by Microsoft.
> 

Unfortunately, up to now exists no ARM version of Skype and WebRTC is
still not working on our smart phones. IMHO this is really a drawback
and the reason why I decided to invest no further time into Ubuntu Phone
up to now. Some kind of VOIP is really a necessary for myself and
implementing WebRTC or VOIP is discussed for months but never gets
anywhere.

> Neither of those hold true for the ARM based phone you're probably running
> Ubuntu Touch on.
> 
> James.

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