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XDA Developers and Ubuntu Touch

by | Wed 27 Feb 2013

Big shout out to the awesome community over at [XDA Developers](https://www.xda-developers.com/) who have been getting involved in the [Ubuntu Touch Port-o-thon](https://developer.ubuntu.com/2013/02/taking-ubuntu-touch-to-new-levels/) to bring the Ubuntu Touch images to more and more devices. Daniel Holbach kicked off the port-o-thon the day after we [released the code and images](https://developer.ubuntu.com/2013/02/releasing-the-ubuntu-touch-developer-preview-and-sdk-alpha/) last week, and we are already seeing fantastic work going on.

When the [initial announcement hit their forum](https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2078691) it generated over a 100 posts within a day and there is currently 101 pages of posts on that thread. There is also an [Ubuntu Touch Subforum](https://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2068) which has seen over 4000 posts already. We are just blown away by the level of interest.

As you can see on the [devices wiki page](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Devices) we are already seeing some fantastic work going on to port Ubuntu Touch to additional devices. Here are some great examples of this work (click each link to see the XDA Developers thread):

* [Galaxy Nexus (toro)](https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=38294870)
* [Galaxy Nexus (toroplus)](https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?s=9f408e4c5c971f364f36365686826689&t=2159832)
* [Sony Xperia S](https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2164210)
* [Sony Xperia T](https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2160642)
* [Samsung Galaxy Note II](https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2163815)
* [Samsung Galaxy Note](https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38367999)
* [Asus Transformer Infinity](https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38376689#post38376689)
* [Nexus One](https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38434934)
* [Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 Wifi](https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38456296)
* [Asus Transformer Pad TF300T](https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667596)

Awesome work!

I asked David Planella and Daniel Holbach on my team to kick off a regular engagement with XDA Developers to help us grow an great relationship together. The first call was today and we are kicking some ideas around of how to work more closely together. Stay tuned for more!

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