[BangPypers] mobile application development

Thu Dec 17 07:55:32 CET 2009

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Pankaj Nathani <croozeus at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi Anand,
>
> >Now let me ask you, if you are starting mobile development today
> and given these two phones, which one will you pick ?
>
> I had choose Symbian over Maemo for now, only for the fact that there is
> just one phone device with Maemo on it and other devices to be released are
> going to be mobile computers rather than phones.
>
>
 Ok. I would opt for N900 cuz I expect the tablet computer/Internet mobile
device/smart-phone divisions to blur in the coming years. Most of
mobile computing is going to be on such devices and yes Symbian
would still run on lower-end phones, but that is not a class of technology
I worry about.

>
> >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.
>
>
> http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/index.php/Python_Technical_Overview#Sample_Applications
> http://croozeus.com/blogs/?page_id=838
>

 I see you are an avid PyS60 developer :)

> Cheers,
> Pankaj!
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Anand Balachandran Pillai <abpillai at gmail.com>
> To: Bangalore Python Users Group - India <bangpypers at python.org>
> Sent: Thu, December 17, 2009 11:57:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [BangPypers] mobile application development
>
> 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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