I have been lately prototyping new SW with QT4 and I have some thoughts about mobile UIs. The QT was originally developed for desktops, so it doesn’t yet have all features required for mobile UI’s. The current literature about QT4 is not very well suitable for mobile development, since the books mainly focus on desktop [...]
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Powerful S60 phones and Maemo tablet coming to markets this year
The new Samsung i8910 is coming to stores at summer. You can see a review at allaboutsymbian. Samsung i8910 will be S60 5.0 based device with capacitive touch screen and OMAP3 chipset. The OMAP3 chipset is very powerful platform with OpenGL ES 2.0 and ARM cortex processor. It will probably be a lot faster than [...]
Christmas present for Nokia 3rd party developers: Carbide 2.0 and Maemo 5.0
Nokia just released Carbide 2.0. And the big news is that it’s free, even the OEM edition, which was about $1200 in the past. I know that 3rd party developers don’t require the OEM edition features, but it’s still nice to receive that for free. I was able to start my own snes9x port, because [...]
Starting Maemo and QT4 development
I have been working with Maemo platform for couple of weeks, and I wanted to share few tips for starting the development. It’s not as easy to start with as S60 ;-) But it’s an open platform and you can find a lot of source( and binary) for it, so developing you own applications are [...]
