14 DAY TRIAL // Ubuntu Touch already has a good selection of apps and more are added every day, but it looks like Will Cooke from Canonical managed to get the Writer tool from LibreOffice to run on a phone. This opens up a wealth of opportunities.
The makers of Ubuntu Touch have made sure that this is a very friendly platform and that developers are able to easily build or port their apps. There is even a powerful Ubuntu SDK that is capable of exporting projects ready to be pushed into the Ubuntu Store.
Now, it looks like Canonical's Will Cooke (Ubuntu Desktop Engineering Manager) got the Writer app from the LibreOffice suite to work on the phone. This is cool in itself, but the implications are much bigger. LibreOffice is made to work in X.org, which means that numerous other apps might show up on Ubuntu Touch as well.
Also, Mir and Unity will soon land on the desktop and there are a ton of X.org apps there that really need to work. It's nice to see this working on the phone, but the long shot is to have the same kind of capability on the desktop.
It's important to keep in mind that this was done more as a "proof on concept," to show that it can be done. As you can see, this is exactly the app from the desktop, with all the menus, which would be almost impossible to use in a real scenario. It doesn't mean that LibreOffice will be coming to the Ubuntu Touch system, although it would be cool to see that.
The video is a slightly different matter because it shows how you can run X apps on your phone and push the result to the desktop, via a VNC app. Sure enough, the performance is not up to par and it will get better.
It might now seem like much, but it's quite an interesting achievement and it's nice to see that XMir is also making progress.
