Coding for Maemo devices with Qt

Conclusion

Qt provides application developers with all the functionality they need to build applications with state-of-the-art graphical user interfaces, I/O, and networking. In this article, I showed how developers can easily use Qt components to create graphical applications for the Maemo platform. Qt is still a work in progress project because of the natural evolution of smart phones and Internet tablets, but it is getting attention from developers and contributors around the world who are interested in programming for mobile devices.

Infos

  1. Maemo platform: http://www.maemo.org/
  2. Qt Maemo: http://qt4.garage.maemo.org/
  3. Getting started with Qt for maemo: http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/Getting_started_with_Qt_for_Maemo
  4. Maemo Diablo 4.1 documentation: http://maemo.org/maemo_release_documentation/maemo4.1.x/
  5. Maemo and Scratchbox: http://repository.maemo.org/stable/4.1.2/INSTALL.txt
  6. Maemo tutorials: http://maemo.org/development/documentation/tutorials/
  7. Article code: http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Resources/Article-Code
  8. Installing and using Qt for Maemo: http://qt4.garage.maemo.org/diablo.html
  9. Qt reference documentation: http://qt.nokia.com/doc/4.5/index.html
  10. Nokia launches Linux-based Qt Extended mobile platform: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2008/09/nokia-launches-linux-based-qt-extended-mobile-platform.ars

The Author

Leandro discovered Linux in 1997 and started developing the BRisa UPnP framework in 2006. Nowadays, he is a computer science professor at Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL) and manages various projects in C, C++, and Python for the Maemo platform at UFAL and Embedded System and Pervasive Computing Laboratory (ESPCL), which is supported by the Nokia Institute of Technology, Brazil.

The author thanks others who contributed to this article: Angelo Perkusich, Hyggo Almeida, Flávio Fabrício, and Felipe Coutinho of the ESPCL, as well as Rodrigo Peixoto, Lucas Amorim, and Leandro Dias from the PCL at Federal University of Alagoas.

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