Hello,
I'm a new forum member, looking at the tech details of the FX1 prior to purchase.
The android app support is a great feature, and seems to have better integration in FX1 than other/previous linux phones.
I'm mostly interested in what native linux apps are available for the phone, and how they are loaded/updated, and what is the build process for porting or writing an application to run on the phone. I've scoured through the website, but can't find any info on what the supported native applications include, along with their current level of stability and feature offerings.
As I've tried to understand the existing native linux app support, I also tried to ask these questions to FuriLabs, but found no method other than this forum for that process. The chat feature always indicated "We are away", and the Call Us support doesn't seem to offer an actual phone number, only calling through the computer visiting the website..
I was disappointed to see that IM access is via discord. To me, this is akin to being required to get a 4chan account to communicate with a product vendor 8-( My preference would be an IRC channel.
So, given this, I guess I have 2 initial questions:
1) What are the available native apps for the phone? And what is the build and update process for these apps?
2) What is the best way to contact FuriLabs WRT technical issues? Hopefully outside of discord or other 3rd party commercial platforms.
Thank you for your reply to my early noob questions!
John A
2024-12-10
no futher updates. marking as solved.
Regarding contacts, you can always fill up the form for support on our website and you should get a response email. As Wayne already answered to you in email, chats are saved and if anyone is available you will get an answer right away (which is not always) and if not, your messages are saved and you will get an email for your response (which i was told you did get a response). Our support chats are available in matrix and telegram (bridged rooms, messages appear in both) and if you do not want a commercial service you can ask your questions in this forum and get an answer like all other users. We do not have a discord channel/server, at least not yet.
All applications in Flathub and Debian repositories you can install and run, now how good it will be on a small screen is a different question. Most GNOME applications are usable on mobile devices since they are adaptive to their environment. Pure QT or pure GTK based applications depend on the developer if they make it mobile friendly. QT applications built for plasma fit nicely on the screen. Again, you can "run" everything built for ARM64, meaning they will show a UI, but that UI might not be compatible and usable on a phone sized screen
Applications from flathub are updated as developers push updates, we are not involved. Applications from Debian get updated once every month since we freeze the repository for fixes and stability at the end of each release and update it for the next.
If you have an application from snap store you can install those and you will get updates from the snap store. if you have an application that is a standalone binary that you have downloaded yourself then you are in charge of updating it. For apps we develop, we push updates to production on a monthly basis and you get the updates either through the software store or apt by manually running apt update and upgrade.
johnea Topic starter
11/12/2024 9:19 am
Thank you for the info fakeshell!
I did get a reply from Wayne to my chatbot post, and have that email address if needed.
That's great news about general flathub and debian applications.
Could you point me at any info about what is included on the phone by default?
Phone dialing, SMS, camera, email, browser, pdf/image viewer, etc. I'm just wondering what suite of apps is typically installed on the phone out of the box. And if there is info on the current bugs/features of those standard apps.
Thanks again for your reply!
John EA
2024-12-10
fakeshell 11/12/2024 12:21 pm
You can find a list of all install apps here
https://github.com/FuriLabs/furios-meta/blob/trixie/debian/control
Apps are under furios-phosh-full
FuriOS is bootstrapped from thousands of packages. We do not have an issue tracker for every single one, but you can search their name and find their upstream repository and issue tracker. From the repositories we develop and maintain, you can find them all at github.com/furilabs. There is an issue tracker respository but it might be outdated and issues were fixed but the issue authors did not update us on their status (even tho we tested and confirmed it was fixed)
