Go for client side development for Ubuntu

Go is a programming language that embraces concurrency right on a language-design level. It engraves policy decisions within the language specification and the compiler. A vibrant community of developers is using Go for developing large-scale server-side applications and successful applications written in Go have be...

Allow music playing apps to escape the lifecycle trap for Music Hub

As Ubuntu's app-lifecycle-policy will be strict, we need to offer a service to apps for playing back music, even if the app is not running.

Add app model and lifecycle to platform api for platform-api

The platform API currently lacks a well-defined app-model (what constitutes an application) and the definition of an app's lifecycle. Both parts need to be defined and implemented in the API to allow the overall system to be more clever in terms saving resources.

Location Service - Geoclue vs whole cloth for Ubuntu

Ubuntu Touch, as any other smartphone and tablet OS, needs a location service. A location service is an abstraction layer on top of GPS and other things used to get a device's location. It's a deamon that fetches location from different providers (gps, cellular network, wifi) and gives the resulting location inform...

Add app-model and -lifecycle to platform api for Ubuntu

The platform API currently lacks a well-defined app-model (what constitutes an application) and the definition of an app's lifecycle. Both parts need to be defined and implemented in the API to allow the overall system to be more clever in terms saving resources.