I got my Galaxy Nexus last week and immediately installed Ubuntu Touch on it, and have run it ever since. I really like the way to jump between applications in the UI, but don’t really like having many tabs running on a smart phone/tab – also I don’t want to input the site I want to check out every time I know what I want to do. Therefore I started to create apps for Ubuntu Touch just like the one for Twitter and Facebook: a simple launcher that opens a new browser window with a set URL.
I started two night ago with testing and yesterday I started to setup and build packages for all of them (moved to let Launchpad to the building now, instead). Today I’ve added a few more.
I started out with the ones I need personally:
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Swedbank (Swedish bank)
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Ping Pong (app for Swedish Universities)
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Wikipedia
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Västtrafik (Public transit where I live)
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tv.nu (Whats on TV right now – Swedish channels)
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IMDb
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SR (Swedish Radio)
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SJ (Train)
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Wunderlist (todo service)
Might be more… they’re building.
They’re all in by PPA: https://launchpad.net/~danielholm/+archive/touch-apps
You can find the code here: https://code.launchpad.net/~danielholm
In the coming days I will post a simple guide the describes how you can do this too – it’s really simple. The only thing that’s hard, really, is the packaging stuff and setting up your environment, which isn’t that hard either.