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Blog posts tagged
"Apps"


Canonical
4 December 2013

The Weather Channel comes to Ubuntu on smartphones

Phone and tablet News

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 ...


Canonical
10 September 2013

Facebook comes to Ubuntu phone

Phone and tablet News

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 ...


Canonical
21 June 2013

Solving multiple calendar views

Ubuntu User Experience

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 ...


Canonical
22 March 2013

App patterns applied: clock key journeys

Ubuntu Article

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 ...


Canonical
7 March 2013

App patterns applied: calculator key journeys

Ubuntu Article

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 ...


Canonical
27 February 2013

App patterns applied: calendar key journeys

Ubuntu Notes

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 ...


Canonical
15 February 2013

Developers get the full support they need

Phone and tablet Article

An interview with David Planella, Ubuntu Community and David Pitkin, Online Services Native and HTML5 apps. ...


Canonical
23 July 2012

Introducing web apps

Ubuntu Design

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, ...


Canonical
20 June 2012

Another major game platform to support Ubuntu; Unity 4 to support Ubuntu

Ubuntu Desktop

Unity Technologies announced Monday that the next version of Unity will support publishing to Ubuntu. This is fantastic news because it will enable developers to deliver their new and existing games to Ubuntu users very easily. The Unity 4 game engine delivers new features like the Mecanim animation technology and a boost in game fidelity ...


Inayaili de León Persson
27 September 2011

The new Ubuntu App Developer website

Ubuntu Design

We’re happy to unveil the brand new Ubuntu App Developer website today, a place where developers who want to create Ubuntu applications can find all the information they need and get in touch with the Ubuntu app developer community to share ideas, ask questions and get all the news and events. Ubuntu App Developer’s website ...


Canonical
30 September 2010

Locatrix deploys mobile applications on Ubuntu

Ubuntu Case study

Locatrix Communications is a developer of mobile location-based application services, for deployment by enterprises and mobile network operators. The four-year old Brisbane-based company is the brains behind the Uandme™ social networking service, which lets mobile subscribers find their friends, receive alerts when they are nearby, and br ...


Canonical
21 September 2010

Did you know?

Ubuntu Article

An introduction to the magical world of Application Screenshots and how to improve the images displayed in Ubuntu’s software catalog. ...