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Karma Machine: An Example of Ubuntu App Convergence

by | Sat 5 Oct 2013

Today I took a short screencast of the [winner of the Ubuntu App Showdown](https://developer.ubuntu.com/2013/10/winners-of-the-2013-ubuntu-app-showdown/), a neat reddit client called *Karma Machine*.

In the video you can see the app first at the size of a phone as I demonstrate it’s features, and then I re-size it to the size of a desktop app. Karma Machine effortlessly re-sizes and adjusts to make the best use of the space available while exposing the same core functionality…all from the same code-base.

The app was written using the Ubuntu SDK, available from [developer.ubuntu.com](https://developer.ubuntu.com), which makes writing apps for phones, tablets, and desktops simple, and also demonstrates use of the [Ubuntu App Design Guidelines](https://design.ubuntu.com/apps) to make the app look and feel very Ubuntu.

Please note: the desktop convergence is not finished yet – we will optimize apps running on desktops soon (e.g. toolbars, scrollbars etc), but this video shows already how usable apps are.

See the video below (or [here if you can’t see it below](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trmcTrWROYA)):


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*Karma Machine* is available now from the Applications scope on the Ubuntu phones images.

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