14 DAY TRIAL // Canonical has finally released the online Ubuntu Phone porting guide that should enable developers to get the Ubuntu Touch running on more devices out there that can easily support it.
The Ubuntu devs have been working on this porting guide for quite some time and now it's finally out. It underlines in great details all the steps and procedures that are needed in order to make the OS run on other devices than just Nexus 4, Nexus 7 2013, and bq Aquaris. This tutorial should enable the community to come up with ports that even feature support for Over-The-Air (OTA) updates, which is actually a very important feature.
The online community has managed to get a few ports going without this tutorial. The best example is the port for Nexus 5, but there are many other phones out there that could easily run Ubuntu. The interest to port is there and a lot of projects have been pun on hold, on XDA, because there wasn't complete information available.
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It will take some time until devs will be ready with Ubuntu ports, but now they have a much better chance of doing that with so much information at hand. It's pretty much all that you would need to built your own port.
"Ubuntu for devices runs on a variety of mobile devices, such as the Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 2013 (reference hardware) or the bq Aquaris (commercial phone). Due to Ubuntu’s Open Source nature and architecture, it is possible and encouraged to enable other devices to run the mobile OS. This guide provides all the information required to port Ubuntu to new hardware, and to enable the Ubuntu community to create and host their own ports, with support for Over-The-Air (OTA) updates," reads the official website.
As you can imagine, there are quite a few requirements that need to be met, but that was to be expected. You can check the Ubuntu Phone porting guide for more details about the procedure. Happy porting!