Ubuntu Core Apps Hack Days
Read the announcement Starting on Wednesday 10th of July until Thursday 25th of July From 9:00 UTC to 21:00 UTC We’ll be following this schedule: 10 July Calendar 11 July Music 12 July Clock 15 July...
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Top 10 Ubuntu App Downloads for June
Filebot takes over the top spot for June as the North American summer heats up while Quick ‘n Easy Web Builder moves into the #2 spot. Not much change in the Free Top 10. Steam continues it’s reign at...
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Ubuntu Edge
Today we took the wraps off a campaign to build the world’s first truly convergent Superphone: the Ubuntu Edge. With top of the line hardware running Ubuntu software, the Ubuntu Edge will dual boot...
View ArticleUbuntu SDK Beta Released
Today we are pleased to announce the beta release of the Ubuntu SDK! The SDK is the toolkit that will power Ubuntu’s convergence revolution, giving you one platform and one API for all Ubuntu form...
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Top 10 Ubuntu App Downloads for July
The productivity app, Spindl, debuts in the top 10 paid apps for July. While MC-Launcher was popular in July, it has been removed from the Software Center recently for unknown reasons. In the free apps...
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Announcing the 2013 Ubuntu App Showdown Contest!
Today we are announcing our second Ubuntu App Showdown! Contestants will have six weeks to build and publish their apps using the new Ubuntu SDK and Ubuntu Touch platform. Both original apps and ported...
View ArticleSoftware Store for Click packages now open for testing!
After many months of hard work, I’m very proud to be announcing a beta launch of the click packages software store, as part of the 2013 Ubuntu App Showdown Contest. This beta is exclusively aimed at...
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Get your apps ready for the Showdown!
So the time to get your apps ready for the Ubuntu App Showdown deadline is drawing to a close. It’s been a fun ride and it’s been truly inspiring to see the r/UbuntuAppShowdown reddit and the Ubuntu...
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Getting your app ready for the app showdown
You’ve been working hard on your app in the last week and now want to get everything ready for submitting it to the software store? It’s all working well in QtCreator, now you just want to get it out...
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Ubuntu App Showdown update: all apps in the Store!
Mostly everything is ready for the judges to start reviewing the Ubuntu App Showdown apps next week, exciting times ahead! As of now, all applications that were submitted for the App Showdown contest...
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Winners of the 2013 Ubuntu App Showdown
The judging is finished and the scores are in, we now have the winners of this year’s Ubuntu App Showdown! Over the course of six weeks, and using a beta release of the new Ubuntu SDK, our community...
View ArticleKarma Machine: An Example of Ubuntu App Convergence
Today I took a short screencast of the winner of the Ubuntu App Showdown, a neat reddit client called Karma Machine. In the video you can see the app first at the size of a phone as I demonstrate it’s...
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A new mobile force emerges: announcing Ubuntu 13.10 for smartphones
Today a major milestone in the history of Ubuntu and the mobile industry has been reached: we’re extremely proud to celebrate the release of Ubuntu 13.10, the free, open source operating system for...
View ArticleMake the Ubuntu App Developers heard in the 2013 Vision Mobile Developer...
Ubuntu App development is growing and we are working with Vision Mobile to gain insights into the global ecosystem together, and we want to hear from you. To do this Vision Mobile launched their latest...
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New API docs added
At the same time that Ubuntu 13.10 was released, we also went live with a new API documentation website here on the Ubuntu Developer Portal. This website will slowly replace our previous static docs,...
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Community driven Core Apps convergence
Convergence is going to be a major theme for Ubuntu 14.04, not just at the OS and Unity 8 levels, but also for the apps that run on it. The Core Apps, those apps that were developed by the community...
View ArticleUbuntu App Developer Week: Call For Papers!
From 20-25th January 2014 we will be running our next Ubuntu App Developer Week. This is a week chock-full of tutorial sessions showing you how to use different aspects of the Ubuntu SDK across QML,...
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Announcing Ubuntu and Android dual boot developer preview
Christmas has come early in Ubuntu this time around, with a finely wrapped present: dual-booting with Android. We are thrilled to announce a preview of a new feature for developers: Ubuntu on mobile...
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Installing Ubuntu to phones using Mac OSX
Ubuntu has long provided tools that made it easy to install the new Ubuntu phone images to your device, taking care of finding the right images and latest versions for you. While this worked great, it...
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Ubuntu App Heroes interviewed: the Weather app developers
We are starting a blog series where we interview our Ubuntu App Heroes. We want to learn more about how developers found the experience writing apps for Ubuntu, what their plans are, what they do and...
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