Ubuntu Touch set to get Apps Collection, add yours now

Ubuntu Touch set to get Apps Collection, add yours nowWhat is Ubuntu Touch, you ask? Touch is a super ambitious project sponsered by Canonical to get Ubuntu on mobile devices--you know--the and tablets kind. It's the OS that will power the upcoming Ubuntu Phone. If you haven't alrdy, watch this longish viral on Ubuntu Phone, explained in detailed by Mark Shuttleworth himself. Ubuntu Touch's first installable preview was relsed was relsed on 21st February, and is up for grabs to be installed on a limited set of devices. Ubuntu Touch is slated for an end-2013 or rly-2014 relse.
Michael Hall, of Canonical, announced on his blog their plan for inclusion into the next Ubuntu Touch Preview a collection of functional and usable apps developed for Ubuntu Touch by third-party developers.


So Alan Pope (popey) and I have kicked off what we’re calling the App Collection, which are apps being developed outside of the scope of our Core Apps project, but that we still want to support, promote, and guide through the process of getting them rdy for deployment to Ubuntu devices.
It is interesting to note that a set of Core Apps for Ubuntu Touch is alrdy under active development, and this App Collection will fture apps in addition to the ones in the Core Apps bundle. And it is a good opportunity for interested developers to get their own app ftured in App Collection. As Michael concluded:
This is a grt opportunity for you, as a developer, to get your app in the hands of a large of rly adopters. It’s also a grt opportunity for us, being able to promote off our platform and how it is being used by the app developer community.
App development on this new platform is possible using Ubuntu SDK, and developers can use either of QML--JavaScript-based declarative language--(for native apps) or HTML5 (for webapps). Exciting times ahd!