Coding for Maemo devices with Qt
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Write your own smartphone apps with Qt's toolkit for the Maemo platform.
Maemo, known as the "Internet Tablet OS," is a software platform developed by Nokia for their line of Internet tablets. The Maemo platform [1], with an operating system and the Maemo SDK, is based on Debian Linux and Gnome (Figure 1).
In 2008 Nokia announced the acquisition of Trolltech, makers of the Qt application framework. The easily extensible Qt provides all the necessary functionality for building applications with state-of-the-art graphical user interfaces, I/O, and networking. Applications written with Qt range from the KDE desktop, to computer softphones such as Skype, to the Opera web browser, to applications such as Google Earth and MythTV.
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