Blog posts tagged "Apps"
In June we hosted a competition that asked developers – how well their app converges across devices? We were looking out for apps that beautifully converged across Phone, Tablet and Desktop using our SDK AdaptivePageLayout component. The numbers are in and we’ve selected our winners! Thank you to all who participated in making their apps
A few weeks ago we participated in Phonegap Day EU. It was a great opportunity to meet with the Cordova development team and we had a range of app developers gather for this occasion. The latest Ubuntu 16.04 LTS release was demoed, running on a brand new BQ M10 tablet in convergence mode. Creating responsive
For those that may not know, Snaps are a new way for developers to package their apps, bringing with it many advantages over the more traditional package formats such as .deb, .rpm, and others. Snaps are secure, isolated, secure and allow apps to be rolled back should an issue occur. Snaps really are the future
Canonical and Wolfram Research® are excited to announce the first app collaboration with cloud connect functionality for Ubuntu developers and users. The Wolfram Data Drop™ Logging mobile application is available now on the Ubuntu Phone and is already available to download from the Ubuntu Store. This is the first in a series of initiative
The latest development of Ubuntu for phones and tablets is on show at this year’s Mobile World Congress – including the visually stunning “scopes”, a new mobile UI paradigm. Ubuntu has announced partnerships with Meizu, a hot manufacturer of phones in China, and BQ, a specialist European phone manufacturer, to bring the first range of
bq and Meizu sign agreements to deliver and ship Ubuntu phones Online campaigns with bq and Meizu will make Ubuntu phones available globally Strong support for Ubuntu devices has also been received from carriers worldwide 19th February 2014, London: Canonical today announces it has signed agreements with mobile device manufacturers bq (ww
It is an exciting time for Ubuntu on phones, with the ecosystem growing positively. We are delighted to announce new partnerships across key app categories from those that bring entertainment and productivity, to developer tools as well as partners helping bring your apps to Ubuntu. Our partners will support Ubuntu on phones at launch to
Over 300 Ubuntu community developers registered their interest and willingness to work on the open-source Evernote-powered app for Ubuntu on phones, following a call for members back in September. A team of 10 have been finalised and work has begun, the scope of the project defined and initial wireframes designed. This project is pioneeri
The Ubuntu phone is developing fast. Today, it includes all the functionality you’d expect from a smartphone and, with growing support from App partners, relevant apps will be included on Ubuntu smartphones from launch. We’re working with The Weather Channel to ensure its popular weather app will available for Ubuntu users from the moment
The Ubuntu community is developing a Facebook application for Ubuntu smartphones ready for launch later this year. It will be an Ubuntu Web App, which takes web based applications, such as Facebook, and enables them to act just like native applications. Web apps integrate with the Ubuntu phone’s interface for functions such as launch, not
One of the key challenges with designing calendar applications is the number of ways you can display your time, whether it’s by year, month, week or day. After a lot of good old fashioned hard work, we refactored navigation by making the tab header the key to switching between views. Although the direction I’ll take
Moving forward with the design of the core apps, we’ve been working on the interaction details of the clock for a while now, building on these concepts introduced a few weeks ago. As with the calendar and calculator, we have outlined typical tasks a user wants to accomplish. We call them key journeys. We have grouped the key
A few weeks ago we introduced key screens for our core utility app designs, and we’ve been sketching key journeys ever since to unpack these concepts further. We use key screens to communicate the overall, high level concept of an app, outlining key journeys is a design technique that gives us a feel for how
Last week we introduced key screens for our core utility app designs, and we’ve been sketching key journeys ever since to unpack these concepts further. Whereas the key screens communicate the overall, high level concept of an app, outlining key journeys is a design technique that gives us a feel for how users can accomplish
An interview with David Planella, Ubuntu Community and David Pitkin, Online Services Native and HTML5 apps.
As you might have heard from the blogosphere, we are going to start to ship our take on web apps. Let me take the opportunity to explain to you some of the reasoning behind them and some of their characteristics. Why I would split the why question in more parts. Is the Web relevant? Today,