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Ubuntu Touch’s New App Switcher Looks Amazing

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Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, the Ubuntu developers have been working a lot at Ubuntu Touch lately, especially at Unity 8 and Mir.

Among other new things that got recently implemented on Ubuntu Touch, Canonical has created a brand new app switcher, enabling the users to see the running apps shown as a revolving door (or carousel) and easily switch between a bunch of apps with one swipe.

Alan Pope, one of the Ubuntu developers has posted the below photo of the new app switcher on his Google+ account.

Ubuntu Touch's New App Switcher Looks Amazing

The story so far:

Canonical has been working a lot at Ubuntu Touch, the mobile version of Ubuntu. While the initial plan was to make it available for all the Google Nexus smartphones and tablets, the developers have dropped the support for Galaxy Nexus, Google Nexus 7 2012 and Google Nexus 10, Ubuntu Touch being officially available only for the Google Nexus 4 smartphone and the Google Nexus 7 2013 tablet.

Until now, there aren’t a lot of applications for Ubuntu Touch available, Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth hopes that by the time the first Ubuntu Touch powered phones hit the market, the top 50 Android/iOS apps will be available for Ubuntu Touch.

While Canonical is working its own email client for Ubuntu Touch (based on Trojita), a Telegram client specially optimized for Ubuntu Touch and Unity 8 is on the way, so the Ubuntu Touch app ecosystem is still growing.

Also worth mentioning, Mark’s Shuttleworth big dream is to reach full desktop-mobile convergence somewhere between the releases of Ubuntu 14.10 and Ubuntu 15.04 (between October 2014 and April 2015).

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