A way to help the development of Ubuntu Touch
- Make debugging platform components easy
- Don't worry about porting
- Lower barrier to entry for contributors
- Linux with Snap:
sudo snap install --edge ubports-pdk - macOS & other Linux: Clone this repository or download a copy of it from GitHub
ubuntu-touch-pdk setup: Sets up the environment and mounting capabilities for your development needsubuntu-touch-pdk pull: Download the freshest development image (based on focal)ubuntu-touch-pdk run: Run the development VM instance
For more options, please run the command with the -h flag.
When logged into the VM instance (user: root, password: root) you're able to clone UBports repositories using ubports-clone. Let's try that with indicator-network.
root@linux:~# ubports-clone indicator-network
This will download the sources from Git and make them available in your PDK workspace (configured during the ubuntu-touch-pdk setup step).
Within the VM instance you're able to access those files in /pdk/sources.
Still logged into the VM instance, you're able to trigger a build of your cloned sources using ubports-build, ie for indicator-network:
root@linux:~# ubports-build indicator-network
This will copy your sources over to the VM, build the source code and publish Debian packages easily accessible from within your PDK workspace. For indicator-network those files will be located in $PDK_WORKSPACE/sources/indicator-network
The same Debian packages generated by the ubports-build command can be installed into the VM, like: sudo apt install /pdk/sources/indicator-network/*.deb
- Preconfigured QEMU with OpenGL support
- Focus on Linux and macOS as host systems first
- Intel images on Intel hardware, ARM64 on ARM64 hardware (Mac M1)
- 20.04 off-the-shelf kernel
- Rootfs builds taken straight from Debos
- Utilities that wrap around Git and make it easier to pull sources
- Utilities around building and testing UT components