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Presently, numerous third-party developers are creating software with Ubuntu SDK, software ranging from games to converters, utilities, task managers, trackers, etc.

Ubuntu SDK allows interested developers to create powerful applications containing both complex visuals and advanced scientific-like functionalities, latter aspect clearly demoed by CalculusTouch (work in progress).

Ubuntu SDK Apps Collection is an interesting official project that gathers Ubuntu SDK-based third-party applications, in order to land them by default in the Ubuntu Touch installable images, thus making them available for testing to a wide audience.

Ubuntu SDK Apps Collection groups apps into a dedicated PPA, where captivating games and useful apps have already started to land, software including Akari, Dogfight, Electronics Toolbox, Mastermind, Samegame, Stock Ticker Mobile app, Sudoku Touch, LightOff, uReadIt, XKCD Viewer.

In the latest days, a solid team from Canonical was gathered in Oakland, in order to discuss about important aspects of Ubuntu.

Among the key discussions, Ubuntu Touch received a relevant percentage, the developers planing future goals, as well as carefully evaluating the now's status of the overall Ubuntu Touch project.

Year after year, month after month, week after week, Ubuntu is rapidly penetrating the society's corners via a full-spectrum vigorous advancement.

Helping brilliant scientists on developing driverless cars in Brazil and Germany, acting as suitable for highly-demanding supermodels ads, being the support of NVIDIA CEO's live presentation, are usage-cases where Ubuntu is harnessed, appreciated and used as a solid reliable ground.

Transparency and community involvement are qualities of Ubuntu, open ecosystem that groups millions of users into a crystal-clear environment where opinions are expressed, bugs are reported, code-based contributions are pushed, translations are generated, etc.

Moreover, the recently-announced Ubuntu Touch has been, since its public beginning, rooted into community, in the sense of incorporating (or to incorporate) a set of core applications coded by community members (without a selection process per se).

Ubuntu is the operating system chosen by 20 million users, offering an attractive pleasant-to-the-eye look, including two good-looking default GTK+ themes, Ambiance and Radiance.

Yet, where there are millions of users, there are numerous tastes and preferences, attribute met by the Ubuntu community with a significant amount of themes already available in the open.

The near future (in the upcoming months) looks (from a now perspective) interesting and exciting, period of time when UnityNext is to be solidified and presented into a stable stage.

Months ago, the developers announced that UnityNext is to power Ubuntu on all levels and interfaces, including phones, tablets and desktops, UnityNext paired and developed in relation with Mir and the latest trends.

Months ago, Canonical unveiled Ubuntu for phones and Ubuntu for tablets, shortly followed by Mir and UnityNext, modern innovative bundle of software that is to position Ubuntu as a no-compromise globally-scaled full-of-features operating system on all the world's relevant form factors.

Comic Seer is a fast, intuitive and powerful comics reader, presenting itself as a handy manner of digesting CBR and CBZ comics formats, as well as organizing comics and exposing useful functionalities (such as, 1-click away magnifier while reading/viewing comics).

Comic Seer has been updated to version 2.0, introducing various refinements and enhanced file sorting support.

Since the beginning of 2013 (when Canonical announced Ubuntu Touch), a significant amount of third-party developers has created interesting Ubuntu SDK-based applications, enriching and beautifying the Ubuntu world with games, converters, utilities, tools, etc.

Simultaneously, the Ubuntu developers have prepared and solidified the app development road with example-based instructions (constantly updated), how-tos, etc, as well as pushing professional-level designs into the open.