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[Marco Graziotti <graziottimarco@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you James and thank you Marco A. H. for replying to me.

So, I understood that there are problem for developing software to ARM
based architecture, right? something change in future?

Marco A. H. you say that exist a thread where you explain how to use
firefox in ubuntu touch, right? can you share the thread url?

Thank you,

Marco Graziotti


2015-09-15 9:32 GMT+02:00 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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