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Developing Maemo5 and MeeGo applications on Windows

21 May

Maemo/Meego devices are like a computer that you can put in your pocket, for example the N900. Before N900 these maemo devices had been slow, but thanks to the iphone the whole computer industry has realized the importance of speed. N900 is not slow, what i like about this phone is the keyboard and the great web browser that it has. Just imagine the scenario, you are reading a web page on your desktop and then when you have to catch the bus, that page opens up when you start the browser on your N900. This is possible with the firefox addon called the Mozilla Weave. N900 is just awesome, it just needs to exercise 4 hours a week to lose some extra fat that it has, but other wise I really like it.

But perhaps the best thing about N900 is that my Qt apps that I write for  Symbian  also work with little modifications on my N900! you dont even need to install some crazy toolchains or use the linux os to do any of this; with the Nokia Qt SDK you can do all of this from your windows computer. Even though its in beta right now; but every thing works; i am using it for a meego/maemo app i am doing and no issues yet

 
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iPhone OS 4 SDK, the iPad Mania today.

27 Jan

So here we go again, another new product from Apple and the Internets will be getting crazy tonight. A humongous iphone will be great for web surfing on the sofa if nothing else.

But what I am excited about is the background processes in the new sdk (which they are yet to announce, hopefully). Finally we can have some useful applications. What I would want is a nokia step counter kind of software. I already have it on my Nokia E72 and it is so useful. I have my daily goal set to 10 km of walking.

So just waiting for the new sdk to be posted on to the web and weeks of endless night hacking ahead. Time to market is the key.

 
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Frustrated with iPhone, happy with android

28 May

I applied to the Apple’s iPhone developer program about a month ago, I did not recieve a reply for about 3 weeks. When they did ask me to send some documents, I had a few questions which again are waiting for a reply. So I told them to cancel my request to join the iPhone developer program. Seems like they dont need any more people writing software for iPhone. I can basically agree with that, so many new apps are coming to the Apple app store every day now, making it pretty easy for an application to fall into oblivion and go un noticed. So seems like I will probably hack my iPod and move to Cydia store.

However android has been a totally different story, first of I just love the android sdk, its so much better/affordable and easier to use, I had to buy a mac mini just to be able to run the iphone sdk ( i might sell it now, with no more plans to target iphone ), unlike iphone I dont have to learn a new language, Objective-C is one of the most idiotic things I have ever seen. Java syntax is easy, eclipse is familiar, the documentation is simple and to the point. Unlike Apple I didnt have to wait for weeks with Google, I got access in just a couple of days ( that too because of weekend ). So seems like my android development days are going to start.

Still the QT port for symbian is taking too much time, and I cant  publish apps for Symbian/Nokia Ovi store unless I register a company, lets just hope that Nokia sorts those things out soon.

 
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