Ubuntu Touch Continues Advancing

Posted by Michael Larabel on March 18, 2013

More progress was made by Canonical and the Ubuntu development community on the Ubuntu Touch project for Linux on smart-phones and tablets.

Shared by Daniel Holbach is a status update for week 11 activity on Ubuntu Touch. Key activity for the past week includes:

- More applications are now supporting Qt's multi-threaded rendering.

- The Ubuntu Telephony stack is still being tackled.

- Updates to the Ubuntu Touch Platform API.

- The ports team now has the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 (GT-P6800) working with Ubuntu Touch while the HTC Sensation XL, SGS III (Qualcomm AT&T), and Toshiba AC100 devices are new works in progress.

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