14 DAY TRIAL // Ubuntu Touch users have been waiting for some interesting news on the Mir front and Canonical obliged, showing off the capabilities of Unity8 as a Mir compositor.
Most of the Mir work is not actually visible for the regular users and most of the improvements made by the developers can't really be appreciated. An Ubuntu developer shows us how Mir and Unity8 have evolved and what the quality that we must expect from any future releases is.
In the video, the developer is able to switch between three intensive applications and, by the looks of it, they are not paused during the transitions. More interestingly, even after the developer is starting the transition from one app to another, both are working like they have focus and can be interacted with, which I think is actually a feature unique to Mir and Unity8.
You might also notice an FPS drop during the transitions, but that is to expected, because both Mir and Unity8 are under heavy development and further improvements will be made.
Ubuntu for phones and tablets can already be downloaded and used on Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 devices, but a hardware launch is expected to take place in the fall of 2014.