Archive for the ‘Maemo’ Category

Maemo 5 SDK: add repositories, install QT and deploy our first app in the emulator

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

Yesterday I explained how to install the Maemo 5 SDK on Fedora 12 and launch the N900 phone emulator. Today we are going to configure the development environment for QT and deploy a “Hello World” application to the Nokia N900 emulator.

To have a better understanding of the whole platform, including GTK+ programming that we are not going to use, Nokia has a series of good videos:

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Install the Nokia N900 (Maemo 5) SDK on Fedora

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

Hey! I finally received my Nokia N900 phone/toy/thing last week after almost 3 months of waiting; of course it’s full of awesomeness like every device one buys. For those of you who still don’t know what I’m talking about, this phone runs Nokia’s Maemo 5 OS which is essentially a Debian-based Linux distro with an adapted GUI.

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