maemo.org - Talk - [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)

It was more a joke than anything else. But still it is never advisable to execute code snippets people publish (there have been a few "incidents" here caused by people executing random shell scripts posted in this forum.)

...depends on who's executing them, and their level of expertise.

don_falcone

2012-04-25 14:08

Re: [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)

...maybe someone should do a scrambled script which just prints out "It's a trap!" :D

Muzimak

2012-04-25 14:46

Re: [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bash73 (Post 1197469)

May be release their own whatsapp on our N9, N900???

Hahahahaha, that would be real funny lol, but isn't it unfair to Tgalal that Nokia may sell even more N9's thanx to him? And yet they don't bother approaching Whatsapp about this matter, surely they have better resources to convince them.

soryuuha

2012-04-25 15:39

Re: [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bash73 (Post 1197469)

May be release their own whatsapp on our N9, N900???

will happen if whatsapp inc sooo suddenly decides to release WhatsApp for Bada OS or WebOS

henry91

2012-04-25 16:10

Re: [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)

be amazed...
http://wazapp.im/

Amboss

2012-04-25 16:54

Re: [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)

?? This is what all this thread is about. Please think, then think, then think, then read, think again, then post.

why do you think a website is called wazapp when it is about WhatsApp?

AndyNokia232

2012-04-25 17:17

Re: [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)

Please make sure you donate to this project, even if you don't think you'll use Wazapp. I think it's important to chip in for things like this in the community. http://wazapp.im/

:)

don_falcone

2012-04-25 17:53

Re: [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)

Nope. I won't pitch using proprietary protocols even if they are reverse-engineered via community efforts, when this will allow their broader usage.

There's always XMPP.

Waynder

2012-04-25 18:18

Re: [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Muzimak (Post 1197493)

nokia doesnt wanna sell more n9*s.... sorry.. ELOP doesnt wanna that... is all about god damn lumia now -.-

cvp	2012-04-26 09:32

Re: [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)

Lumia 900 is not bad. I would buy myself ..... if we could Porting Meego :D

ADRENALINE

2012-04-26 09:35

Re: [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)

Quote:

Originally Posted by cvp (Post 1197815)

Lumia 900 is not bad. I would buy myself ..... if we could Porting Meego :D

WP could be the worst thing you will ever buy.

godofwar424

2012-04-26 12:37

Re: [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)

Quote:

Originally Posted by ADRENALINE (Post 1197817)

WP could be the worst thing you will ever buy.

Thats a matter of oppinion, it works, its quick n smooth.

Yes for us technical people MeeGo rules but end users are unable to enjoy phones like the N9 AS much due to the fact that they can't do all the mods that we do via terminal ect..

The N9 by default is lovely to use, but overclocking and hacking different themes and messing with configs in the terminal and installing apps using wget and dpkg is not something most people would want.

ibrakalifa

2012-04-26 12:44

Re: [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)

Afaik nokia store doesnt need xterminal

ADRENALINE

2012-04-26 12:48

Re: [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)

Quote:

Originally Posted by godofwar424 (Post 1197852)

Couldn't say it better myself after all tech geeks like me get bored fast, need always something new to mess with

tgalal

2012-04-26 14:18

Re: [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)

Quote:

Originally Posted by godofwar424 (Post 1197852)

As a Meego user, I've never needed to apply any mod, overclock or do any sort of hacking or even use the terminal on it, yet I still enjoy it.

s4br0s0

2012-04-26 14:27

Re: [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)

@tgalal

Quote:

Originally Posted by patlak (Post 1197131)

Can you tell us whether you'll release it on N900 also on May 1st?

Quote:

Originally Posted by ajack (Post 1197390)

@tgalal: I can wait for 1-May-2012, but would like to know what version will be available that day? N9, N900 or both? If it's not going to be available for my phone, I don't have to hold my breath. Maybe you should manage people's expectations a bit as a courtesy. We are after all you fans! :)

So, N9 version only or N9 and N900 on may 1?

I supose N9 only, so, are you working just in N9 or both?

Greetings.

tgalal

2012-04-26 14:28

Re: [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)

Quote:

Originally Posted by s4br0s0 (Post 1197875)

@tgalal

So, N9 version only or N9 and N900 on may 1?

I supose N9 only, so, are you working just in N9 or both?

Greetings.

Maybe N900 as well, may be not. We'll see :rolleyes:

malkavian

2012-04-26 14:51

Re: [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)

So it wil be for N900 too! Great.

I hope than in a future an option to not synchronize contacts with phone-book and to add contacts manually would be possible :). It's a must for me.

tgalal

2012-04-26 15:08

Re: [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)

Quote:

Originally Posted by malkavian (Post 1197885)

So it wil be for N900 too! Great.

Which part of "may be not" did you not understand? :p

youmeego

2012-04-26 15:08

Re: [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)

please consider voice call feature in your next step

ravent-n900

2012-04-26 15:16

Re: [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)

Quote:

Originally Posted by tgalal (Post 1197894)

Which part of "may be not" did you not understand? :p

so we well not have it for n900 ;)

malkavian

2012-04-26 15:20

Re: [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)

Quote:

Originally Posted by tgalal (Post 1197894)

Which part of "may be not" did you not understand? :p

I only read "N900 as well" and then something about boobies ¿or it was my mind? Well, I don't care... Boobies! XDDD

Arie	2012-04-26 15:21

Re: [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)

Quote:

Originally Posted by ibrakalifa (Post 1197854)

Afaik nokia store doesnt need xterminal

Nokia Store doesn't need terminal at all.

ravent-n900

2012-04-26 15:26

Re: [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)

Quote:

Originally Posted by malkavian (Post 1197899)

I only read "N900 as well" and then something about boobies ¿or it was my mind? Well, I don't care... Boobies! XDDD

you make my day :D

s4br0s0

2012-04-26 15:50

Re: [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)

Just to be clear.

Are you working on an N900 version, yes or no?

Greetings.

tgalal

2012-04-26 16:05

Re: [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)

Quote:

Originally Posted by s4br0s0 (Post 1197906)

Just to be clear.

Are you working on an N900 version, yes or no?

Greetings.

Yes, I am working on N900 version. Is it gonna be released on May 1st? That's where the maybe part comes.

don_falcone

2012-04-26 16:14

Re: [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)

"May"-be it :D

s4br0s0

2012-04-26 16:15

Re: [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)

Quote:

Originally Posted by tgalal (Post 1197910)

Yes, I am working on N900 version. Is it gonna be released on May 1st? That's where the maybe part comes.

I understand that in your first answer but as you see, not everyone got it clear, and the best way to clear things is question/answer directly.

Thanks for your work.

Greetings.

tgalal

2012-04-26 16:17

Re: [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)

Quote:

Originally Posted by teamer (Post 1166527)

for now we have the login and registration procedures that works (yes !) lets implement them into "something" as a start , then after , implementing xmpp to that all won't be hard . 2-3 days of development would set that all . but the problem is WHAT TO DEVELOP ? get me an answer for that !

I wonder where he has disappeared :)

gerbick

2012-04-26 16:21

Re: [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)

tgalal - congrats on releasing what a lot of people said would be an easy endeavor, but didn't follow through.

Also, congrats on ignoring the noise in this forum and producing something that is beneficial to the entire forum in one way or another. Good work... even though I might not use Wazapp on my now shelved N9, I will be donating shortly.

Wreck

2012-04-26 16:22

Re: [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)

God, i'm excited. Even though it might not be for n900 for while. Thanks for posting some info Tgalal :)

blakkpanter

2012-04-26 20:44

Re: [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)

Quote:

Originally Posted by gerbick (Post 1197922)

Why did u shelve it, Mate?

gerbick

2012-04-26 21:17

Re: [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)

Quote:

Originally Posted by blakkpanter (Post 1198014)

Why did u shelve it, Mate?

Bluetooth issues. Voice would go robotic when using an earpiece, it would randomly disconnect from my Pioneer AVIC-X920BT and PR1.2 introduced lag and ultimately... I needed Skype video call on the phone.

That and I missed voice commands. I still have two N9's, put aside... but it's not my main phone any longer.

godofwar424

2012-04-26 23:43

Re: [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)

Quote:

Originally Posted by ibrakalifa (Post 1197854)

Afaik nokia store doesnt need xterminal

Your point is??

I didn't say that end users would be completely lost or screwed with the N9..

All I said was that similar to the N900, it has a very short support life, by support life i'm talking about commercial support. Meaning that in order to keep using it for multiple years you need to get your head into some X-Terminal stuff to really keep it alive n kicking and to keep enjoying the phone.

The average somewhat non technical person who feels an iPhone is a technical masterpiece, wouldn't know how to use X-Term and would never want to as they buy a phone in order to make their lives easier not in order to further their programming and hacking knowledge :P

Us MeeGo users aren't satisfied by the 'smart'phones of today..

hriday.

2012-04-27 00:12

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Hello everyone,

it's nice to see wazzapp is finally happening and tgalal is not the fake as a few here assumed (:

Altough the work is already finished on this project, and I don't think anyone want changes on the Icon I jus wanted to share my thoughts of it.

I think it's look pretty nice, and I kno you wan to get as close to the original as you can, but still I think there are three points which you should rethink bout.
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1.
The original Icon is not very logical.

- There's a telephone/telephone receiver in it.

Well, a telephone is not a mobilephone plus u can't make calls with this app. So actually it's a wrong symbolisation.

- The bubble/balloon is leftward.

The bubble have their origins in comics and mostly they place the bubble rightward. The human eye almost follows every thing from right to left. Specially if it comes to capture informations, like texts or pictures, besides you are arabian off course (;

So the logical association would be gettin a msg back means a reply to a message and not the first message or starting a conversation. But startin a conversation is the main idea behind every IM and communication tool.

It can still work as a standalone bubble, but I find it kinda irritating, as I read many comics q:
I kno lots of messaging tools use it, also the official Nokia one but its not so dominant there like this one.
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So if you care bout logic, there should for example sum text lines in the icon instead of the phone plus it should be rightward. It's just an example there are many ways to symbolise it.
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2.
Why the original?

I don't think you need to take the original icon as your pattern at all. It's your guys app you can create sumthin totally new, sumthin you personally identify with. You could also change the color. Why not choose sum other which represents your concept or the platforms meego/maemo N9/N900 better. If you want to keep the closeness to the original you could stuck to the color and jus change the rest. There are lot of examples out there where 3rd party developers totally changed their icons for a official service.
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3.
Legal issues.

As the legal situation of this project is anyways not clear, because of the closed protocol. Why give them more chances to attack the project, as if it gets to close to the original icon you could get sued because of copyright infringement.
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If you really want to stay with your Icon, there's a minor change you could consider bout. The peak of the bubble is to close to the edge. It's inspired by the iOS icon if am not wrong. So if you look at the iOS icon there's plenty of space to the edge.
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As a GraphikDesigner I could make a mock-up to show you what I mean, but I don want to interfere with the work already done and with the creator of it.
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So don't get me wrong I'am really happy for the community as this was a major demand since the launch of the N9, I really appreciate the work of tgalal and the creator of the icon. And even if I will not use this app, as I haven't decided yet cos of privacy issues, it was botherin me all the time and I couldn't hold it back as a designer. q:
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Ps.
Sorry for the long post, it wasn't supposed to and my bad english. q: q:
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Black = Edits.
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Waynder

2012-04-27 07:01

Re: [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)

Will There be group chat in first

Fersansa

2012-04-27 07:24

Re: [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)

Quote:

Originally Posted by tgalal (Post 1197920)

I wonder where he has disappeared :)

I've been asking myself the same question for a long time!!! :) But after knowing you'll release a port I stopped that questioning!!!

Thanks a lot for your work and I hope you'll have the N900 version ready asap.

Muzimak

2012-04-27 08:54

Re: [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)

Why N900 hasn't got Whatsapp Official, I tbought the reason behind N9 not using it is because of MeeGo OS, the only phone with it.

GrimyHR

2012-04-27 12:23

Re: [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)

Quote:

Originally Posted by AndyNokia232 (Post 1197561)

Please make sure you donate to this project, even if you don't think you'll use Wazapp. I think it's important to chip in for things like this in the community. http://wazapp.im/

:)

lol, especially for the bolded part
some of the projects where that money would be much more useful:
cssu
kernel-power
phoneme
busybox-power
and much more projects that actually enhance maemo

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