Ubuntu for Android

[Chris Mosetick]

Hi James,
I too would like to know where to get a Ubuntu for Android phone. Good find
on the new video. At the moment, hardware wise it still seems like vapor.
Let me know if you find out any details. FWIW, I'm in the U.S., but I'm all
about international shipping if I need to go that route. James, join me in
#ubuntu-android on Freenode if you would like to exchange more thoughts
sometime.

-Chris

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 4:25 PM, James Haigh <james.r.haigh at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hey, am I missing something?! Today I was told by someone who doesn't use
> Linux and doesn't have an Android phone that Ubuntu for Android has been
> released for the Nexus 7!
>
> I'm keeping my eyes peeled for any news, but I haven't seen anything to
> back this up. The only thing I've noticed is that http://<http://ubuntu.com/devices/android>
> ubuntu.com <http://ubuntu.com/devices/android>/devices/android<http://ubuntu.com/devices/android>now has this new video:
>
> http:// <http://youtu.be/iv1Z7bf4jXY>youtu.be<http://youtu.be/iv1Z7bf4jXY>
> /iv1Z7bf4jXY <http://youtu.be/iv1Z7bf4jXY>
>
> "...So, get a phone with Ubuntu for Android, and start living a life less
> complicated."
>
> Err. Where from? And does this mean that some source code has been
> released somewhere? I can't find anything, but maybe I'm not looking hard
> enough.
>
> I currently have Ubuntu running on a tablet, but I haven't found a way to
> get OpenGL hardware acceleration to work (it currently uses VNC into
> itself). I've looked at VMGL, but it can't work because it needs full
> OpenGL rather than OpenGLES (see https://<https://groups.google.com/group/android-porting/browse_thread/thread/d9a7b29f3bfde6be>
> groups.google.com<https://groups.google.com/group/android-porting/browse_thread/thread/d9a7b29f3bfde6be>
> /group/android-porting/<https://groups.google.com/group/android-porting/browse_thread/thread/d9a7b29f3bfde6be>
> browse_thread<https://groups.google.com/group/android-porting/browse_thread/thread/d9a7b29f3bfde6be>
> /thread/d9a7b29f3bfde6be<https://groups.google.com/group/android-porting/browse_thread/thread/d9a7b29f3bfde6be>).
> The reverse looks more likely though (see https://<https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6816>
> code.google.com <https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6816>
> /p/android/issues/detail?<https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6816>
> id <https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6816>=6816<https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6816>),
> so maybe Ubuntu could take control of the hardware acceleration as OpenGL
> and expose this back to Android via VMGL.
>
> It is though quite nice that all I have to do is plug in my ThinkPad USB
> keyboard and I have a full Ubuntu desktop (albeit slow without OpenGL) with
> LibreOffice and my other full Ubuntu desktop applications. However, I'm
> eager to know how Ubuntu for Android, as seen in some videos online, is
> doing hardware acceleration, and how the Android screen is visible within
> an Ubuntu window.
>
> James.
>
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