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I believe the parent means installing Ubuntu Touch on your android phone. The best tool to do this with is MultiROM[1], an app in the play store that allows you
by redwards510 10y ago
I believe the parent means installing Ubuntu Touch on your android phone. The best tool to do this with is MultiROM[1], an app in the play store that allows you to select the ROM you want at boot time.
I tried this a couple years ago on a N6 and was very unimpressed as it was incredibly slow and unresponsive, had no apps you could install, and just barely met the definition of "phone OS". It was more of a PoC and didn't even have a shell prompt. Things have probably improved a bit since then[2], but I would expect you'll get bored of it. I follow the android ROM scene and (unlike iOS) I've never seen people say "#$%$% all this! I'm gonna run Ubuntu Touch from now on!"
Still, it's fun to install just so you can say you did.
[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tassadar.multirommgr https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tassadar.m...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Touch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Touch
- skykooler 10y agoI installed Ubuntu Touch on my Nexus 4 a few months ago to compare it to Sailfish OS. It ran reasonably smoothly, but seemed to be missing a bunch of functionality. I installed a Spotify client only to learn that because Ubuntu Touch pauses background apps, you could only listen to music with the screen on and the app in the foreground. Similarly, if you started a Terminal session, and, say, went to the browser to look up a command, you would return to a completely new Terminal. I uninstalled it a few hours later - I'm willing to put up with a lot in a mobile OS, but a lack of multitasking puts it in 2007 territory.
- newjersey 10y agoI went with an Android ROM from XDA that brings it up to Android N. Thanks for sharing your experience.