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| Maemo 5 SDK installation for beginners | Week 44 - October 25th 2009 |
This week's featured article, Maemo 5 SDK installation for beginners, is submitted by Marcelobarrosalmeida .
The Maemo operating system is based on Debian GNU/Linux. As it was designed for resource constrained devices, a lot of changes and new features where required to make it best fit to the target characteristics such as smaller screens, battery powered, multiple input methods, etc.
Maemo 5 aka Fremantle is the new version of the Maemo platform. The Maemo SDK contains tools required to create, build, test and port applications to Maemo platform. The base programming language is C, but it also supports C++ and Python through bindings and Qt.
This article presents the first step towards Maemo development for beginners. The article explains installation of Maemo 5 SDK for Linux users. It also addresses other topics like installing applications, removing the SDK and current known issues.
Read the article to setup Maemo 5 SDK on your Linux machine.
| How to show city locations in a map using Qt and Google Maps API for Maemo | Week 39 - September 20th 2009 |
Credits for this week's featured article, How to show city locations in a map using Qt and Google Maps API for Maemo, go to it's original author Flaviofabricioferreira and other fellow developers who have enhanced the article and made it better.
One of the most powerful ways to personalize mobile applications is based on location. Location-based applications are a source of apt information and entertainment on mobile devices. The Google Maps API lets you embed Google Maps in your applications. The API provides a number of utilities for manipulating maps and adding content to the map through a variety of services, allowing you to create robust maps applications.
The featured article is all about using Google maps API with Qt for Maemo applications. Qt for Maemo offers an "Hildonized" Qt-based UI with native style and input method support, OpenGL-ES2 (only in Fremantle) and much more. The article proves to be a step by step tutorial with links to the source code used in the article
Read the article to learn using Google maps API with your Qt for Maemo applications.
| Getting started with Qt for maemo | Week 37 - September 6th 2009 |
This week's featured article, Getting started with Qt for maemo, is written by Raulherbster.
With the growing popularity of the maemo platform and the announcement of advanced devices such as the Nokia N900, it is essential that developers be aware of the full range of programming options at their disposal in order to pick the best solution for developing their applications.
This article is an introduction to developing on maemo using Qt, specifically Qt4 which has been ported to the maemo platform. It presents the required material, and provides a tutorial that covers how to install it and set it up. There is also a simple "Hello world!" style example that demonstrates how to write, build and test your first application.
Read the article to get started with developing Qt applications on the maemo platform.
| Getting started with PyQt for maemo | Week 13 - March 22nd 2009 |
This week's featured article, Getting started with PyQt for maemo, is authored by Felipelc .
Qt is a cross-platform application framework that makes it easier to develop applications and user interfaces. PyQt is a set of bindings that allows programmers to access Qt library using Python.
This week's featured article is a guide to get started with PyQt on a maemo device. The article is a step by step tutorial for installing Qt4 and Pyqt bindings for qt4-core and qt4-gui libraries on a Maemo device - Nokia N800. It also demonstrates, with appropriate screenshots, the development of a small project using PyQt by creating a simple text editor application on Nokia N800.
Basic knowledge of Qt and Python language is pre-requisite to study this article.
Read the article and get started with developing PyQt applications on your internet tablets.
| Maemo multimedia applications | Week 40 - September 28th 2008 |
Maemo multimedia applications is the featured article of this week. Its consist of two articles, Part I & Part IIwritten by Raulherbster.
Maemo is a computer architecture platform built on desktop open source components. It is aimed at enabling applications and innovative technology for mobile handheld devices. Nokia has already launched three devices based on maemo, and there are more devices on the way.
The reader must be familiar with the Python environment on the maemo platform and modules like Hildon and GTK+ to understand the articles.
The Maemo multimedia applications - Part I depicts the use of GStreamer tools for creating multimedia applications on maemo using Python. Maemo multimedia applications - Part II contains an example describing a simple maemo multimedia application - an MP3 player. Read more....
| Wireless Information Sharing Engine | Week 30 - July 20th 2008 |
Wireless Information Sharing Engine by Ebra is available for the maemo and S60 platforms, enables file sharing between number of devices running the service. The number of devices is dynamic.
