Date With Techie

The developer previews of Ubuntu landed on the smartphone world earlier this year. And now moving towards the new year, the Canonical has introduced a new feature to it for the developers; dual booting with Android. Yes! now you can run Ubuntu on your smartphone along with Android.    

Getting the flavor of Ubuntu on your Android device is very simple and just involves a few steps. Once you have your device unlocked, then it's only the matter of  getting the device into USB debugging mode and loading the Ubuntu installer app into it. Once completed, you can choose between Android and Ubuntu by clicking on the Ubuntu Dual Boot app. The app works well with almost all the Android flavors including CyanogenMod.


Being a developer preview, trying this dual boot may not be a good idea for the beginners as it involves processes like unlocking the bootloader and rewriting the Android recovery partitions. Before starting over, make sure that you device is not just unlocked but also be running Android 4.2 or higher and has minimum 2.7 GB disk space. You'll also need ADB tools installed on your PC. For the easy ADB installation, read our post: How to install ADB in 15 seconds?

Visit the Ubuntu Developer blog for the download link and more features of this release.