[BangPypers] mobile application development

[Anand Balachandran Pillai]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Pankaj Nathani <croozeus at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I have to say something here :-)
>
> >Symbian is nearing end-of-life as the chosen platform for smartphones
> for Nokia.
>
> Well, thats not true. Symbian is going to be the platform for smartphone
> development for Nokia. Nothing is stopping them from doing so.
>

Hmmm...I looked at N97 and N900 specs and apart from better display
(OpenGL) on the latter and the difference in the OS (and perhaps camera
also) there was nothing much to choose from among them.

Now let me ask you, if you are starting mobile development today
and given these two phones, which one will you pick ?


>
> Maemo is target to high end mobile devices - tablets/netbooks, etc. So you
> will be seeing some products from Nokia on Maemo targeted to such consumers.
> Maemo and Symbian are never on the same level of competition, remember.
>
> Symbian has its open plan for years ahead - Symbian^1 (already present),
> Symbian^2 (Starting 2010), Symbian^3 (mid 2010) and Symbian^4 (end 2010)
> ahead. Also, the same pattern reflects on Nokia's roadmap - the plan for
> 2010 and ahead from the Nokia's Capital Markets day.
>
> Regarding PyS60, yes its getting better and getting more mobility
> functionalities - it has been ported to core 2.5 and you should be seeing a
> new release very soon as well. And yes, Python is also supported on Maemo.
>

 Almost anything that compiles on a Debian and can be ported using
Scratchbox (which is again almost any Linux app) will run on Maemo.
You have a wide choice of platforms to code on - Python, C/C++,
Ruby anything.

I might be mistaken here, but PyS60 has been there for some time -
but can  you point out at least a few popular applications entirely
developed using it ? I can't find even one good game that has been coded
entirely in PyS60 so far.


>
> Cheers,
> Pankaj.
> (Croozeus)
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Anand Balachandran Pillai <abpillai at gmail.com>
> To: Bangalore Python Users Group - India <bangpypers at python.org>
> Sent: Thu, December 17, 2009 9:54:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [BangPypers] mobile application development
>
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Anish Kurian <anishk33 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > you sure can develop mobile applications using python.
> > u can download the SDK for particular group of handset. Nokia S60 mobiles
> > use PyS60 SDK. Maybe similar ones are available for other handsets.
> >
>
> Symbian is nearing end-of-life as the chosen platform for smartphones
> for Nokia. As you might know N900 was recently released in select markets
> around the world and it runs a fully Debian-derived Linux OS named
> Maemo. I have been reading through N900 and Maemo reviews and
> this looks like disruptive technology.
>
> Symbian is still the largest selling smartphone OS right now, but
> can't stand up to the challenges posed by Android, Web OS etc.
> Symbian is not developer friendly and has stability issues. I am
> looking forward to get my hands on an N900 and hacking on the
> Maemo.
>
> Nokia is betting on Maemo - the only current issue is that it
> is fully GTK based (Hildon/Matchbox) but I read that Nokia
> is planning to bring in QT as a choice to it pretty soon.
> Since Nokia invests a lot in Qt this definitely make a lot
> of sense.
>
> Take a look at N900 and Maemo. It is surely one of the
> directions mobile development will take, the other being
> Android and its clones.
>
>
> > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:09 PM, pradeep T <itpradeep.38 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > hi friends,
> > >  am a begginer of this language and dont know much.
> > >
> > >  Is it possible for me to develop a mobile application using this
> > >  language...
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