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["Marco Alexander Harrendorf" <marcokarlo@xxxxxx>]

Hi Alan,

Gesendet: Dienstag, 15. September 2015 um 15:39 Uhr
Von: "Alan Pope" <alan.pope@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
An: ubuntu-phone <ubuntu-phone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Betreff: Re: [Ubuntu-phone] It's possible to install Skype (app, not web app) in Ubuntu Touch?
Hi Marco,

>On 15 September 2015 at 14:29, Marco Graziotti <graziottimarco@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> So, I understood that there are problem for developing software to ARM based
>> architecture, right?

>Not really. Look at the two most popular mobile platforms, the vast
>majority of those devices are ARM based. For free software programs
>that are in the archive and successfully build for ARM (as well as
>other architectures) then there is less of an issue (assuming they
>work under Mir or XMir). What is a problem (for some consumers) is the
>availability of proprietary software on their platform of choice.
>Skype (and others like WhatsApp) are proprietary, and thus only the
>vendor can determine what platforms they support. It may be that
>Microsoft make a Skype release which works on ARM on Ubuntu, but
>that's very much up to them, as it's their investment.
 
 
I could be wrong, however, the major problem is at the moment that the microphone, webcam and so on of the Ubuntu phone cannot be accessed by X11 applications.
E.g. the Chromium ARM package is compiled with WebRTC support, so that it could be directly be used for VOIP chats. However, since the microphone cannot be accessed this functionality is useless and I guess that this would be true for all other ARM packages. Meaning even if Skype would provide an ARM package we could not use it at the moment on Ubuntu phone.

I am following the work on the WebRTC implementation in Ubuntu closely and honestly it really disappoints me that such a IMHO essential part gets delayed from one OTA to the next OTA even though it is considered as important in the corresponding bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/oxide/+bug/1410996

Best regards,

Marco