Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 

Now it starts smoothly from the app grid.

Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 

Hi all, hope everyone's doing well. I haven't been online much today, unfortunately received some horrible news that last night my friend, his brother, and their father had died in a farming accident. I have quite a few emails to get through and the rest of the submissions to put up - I hope you'll be patient with me as I might not be online much tomorrow either. It's a reminder to everyone that life is precious and we need to make sure we cherish every day :(

Should be fine rash :)

Thanks SD69. I think from the meeting of the Friday before last, that X-Fade seemed confident that he will be able to do it as long as Woody had done the leg work. I'm fairly confident that he'll do it as it's not a lot of work left now, it's just a matter of seeing when he's got the time to do it

The only backup we have is forum threads, hopefully anonymous polls with Reggie's help to remove votes from duplicate/invalid users ids.

From the last discussions I had, I was under the impression that QGil had left things ready with a contact that the council has. You're making me fairly nervous and concerned that, as a member of council, you're nervous and concerned..

Ofcourse, we want you to fix bugs :)

By the way, have you thought about creating an "[Announce]" page for adventlands? It's a great for people to find out more about your application without needing to email you :) Also, you'll get less emails if they find their questions are already answered in the Announce thread. It'll save you time and headaches in the long run ;)

Thanks ajalkane, but there's no need to disclose bug fixes. It's perfectly fine to fix any bugs :)

How nice to end on some good news :) Thanks for testing, b0unc3.

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Desktop, System, and Utilities (Part 1 of 3)


Allocine
Developer: Antoine Vacher
Category: Desktop, System & Utilities
Beginner: Yes
Platform: Harmattan

Application Description:
The goal of this application for MeeGo Harmattan is to access to popular cinema websites from AlloCine group with a native application. It is somewhat comparable in functionnalities to Android or iPhone applications. The information is accessed through the AlloCine API for wich information can be found here: http://wiki.gromez.fr/dev/api/allocine_v3

Note that this is not an official application, and we are in no way related to AlloCine company.

While initially developped in french only, the application will support all the websites powered by AlloCine API. At the moment the application supports the following services:

• AlloCine (French - France)
• Screenrush (English - United Kingdom)

The development was performed from scratch and this is my very first QT/QML application, and also my first mobile phone application.

Download Instructions:
The application is not yet on the Nokia Store, but a deb package can be directly downloaded from the project page:

http://tigre-bleu.github.com/allocine-harmattan/

Note that the application is opensource so the sources can also be downloaded from the GitHub repository.

More screenshots are displayed on the project page.

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CountYourScores
Developer: helihyv
Category: Desktop, System & Utilities
Beginner: No
Platform: Fremantle (N900) and Harmattan

Application Description:
CountYourScores is used for counting and keeping score for real life games where score is counted by adding preset values together (e.g. some card games). If the default numbers in the pad are not suitable for your game, a custom list of numbers can be created and saved for future use. Supports maximum of four players and nine games for which a total score is calculated.

It is available for Maemo5 (N900) and Harmattan (N9/N950).

The application was created by me during the competition period. (A family member designed the app’s icon.)

Download Instructions:
The N9/N950 version can be downloaded from
https://github.com/downloads/helihyv....1.1_armel.deb

The N900 version can be downloaded from the extras-devel repository.

The discussion thread at TMO is at http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=1263220
The web page with instructions is at http://helihyv.github.com/CountYourScores/
CountYourScores is licensed under GPL3, the sources can be found via the web site.

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DingMee
Developer: chrm
Application name: DingMee
Category: Desktop, System & Utilities
Beginner: Yes
Platform: Harmattan

Application Description:
DingMee is an off-line translator for many languages. Dictionaries can be easy downloaded and stored an the device.

Technology: C++ and QML
Copyright: GPLv3

Work done within the competition timeframe:
Design and implementation

Download Instructions:
Download from:
http://chrm.info/software/dingmee/di...ition-2012.zip
(runtime limited version)
Or
http://store.ovi.com/content/297350
(full version)

Announce thread:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=85427

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DoMee
Developer: Anand Bibek
Category: Desktop, System & Utilities
Beginner: No
Platform: Harmattan

Application Description:
A personal task manager with beautiful Swipe gestures and full functionality
Features:
● Use of a simple and elegant UI
● Three main lists based on task prority.
● Swipe main screen to access the three lists with smooth transitions.
● Easy straight forward ”create New” sheet with slider for priority setting.
● You can change priority of entries.
● Each entry could have numerous sub lists and a comment/note
● You can edit or delete the sub lists
● Back end operations are multi threaded for keeping the UI smooth and fast.

Download Instructions:
Store download : http://store.ovi.com/content/296739

Project site : http://projects.developer.nokia.com/domee

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ext2Manager
Developer: Alexislavie
Category: Desktop, System & Utilities
Beginner: Yes
Platform: Harmattan

Application Description:
This is a simple app to fix files/directories rights recursively on the MyDocs directory. This permits the use of ext2 as the mass storage filesystem.

Download Instructions:
ext2Manager can be downloaded from here : http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=1263221 and do not require special instructions to be installed, the goal of this app was to made it easy and simple to use.
This app comes alongside with a major tutorial on how to format and use ext2 (easily thanks to ext2Manager) on the Nokia N9. The thread can be found here : http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...26#post1263126

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FilmNotes
Developer: kosirj
Category: Desktop, System & Utilities
Beginner: Yes
Platform: Harmattan

Application Description:
FilmNotes is an application designed for film photographers. It enables us to keep track of how a picture or a film was used and which equipment was used (useful for troubleshooting).

By defining the films that one uses (and other equipment), you can open a new film roll (which also generates a serial number for the new roll, in order to be able to identify it) and then inside the previously opened roll, one can define pictures. Each picture can also contain information about how the exposure was done and e.g. which lens was used in that particular picture.

Download Instructions:
The deb package is available at http://www.kosir.org/filmnotes_0.0.1_armel.deb the target was Harmattan PR1.2

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KhtBMA
Developer: Khertan
Category: Desktop, System & Utilities
Beginner: No
Platform: Harmattan

Application Description:
An unofficial battle.net authenticator for n9 and n950 Meego Devices. Usefull for authenticate on Battle.net, Diablo III and World of Warcraft.

Download Instructions:
Application is available on Apps 4 MeeGo : http://apps.formeego.com

Support Page : http://khertan.net/KhtBMA
Sources : http://github.com/khertan/KhtBMA
Bug Tracker : http://github.com/khertan/KhtBMA/issues

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Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 

Desktop, System, and Utilities (Part 2 of 3)


KhtNotes
Developer: Khertan
Category: Desktop, System & Utilities
Beginner: No
Platform: Harmattan

Application Description:
KhtNotes is a note taking application for Harmattan devices (n950, n9). Provide sync of notes with ownCloud, and permit to preview markdown syntax
Synchronization is made for Owncloud webdav, but should work with any other webdav server.

Features :

* Sync with ownCloud or other webdav server
* Preview markdown syntax
* File are stored as text file, so you can directly edit them in ownCloud or via a mounted webdav point and a text editor.
* Import your Conboy or Tomboy notes (note should be in ~/.conboy/ directory)

Download Instructions:
Application is available on Apps 4 MeeGo : http://apps.formeego.com

Support Page : http://khertan.net/KhtNotes
Sources : http://github.com/khertan/KhtNotes
Bug Tracker : http://github.com/khertan/KhtNotes/issues

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Klippr
Developer: mbo
Category: Desktop, System & Utilities
Beginner: No
Platform: Harmattan

Application Description:
Klippr is a meego for Klippt.com. With kippt.com you can organize, archive and search your links.
It features also a ”Read Later” option, similar to instapaper or others.

For now the following features are implemented in Klippr:

– save, edit and delete bookmarks
- create, edit and delete lists.
- mark bookmarks as ”read later” or ”starred”
- a reader view for reading your bookmarks in an optimized way, similar to Instaper or ReadItLater.
- follow the lists of other kippt.com users you are following, the so called ”Feed”.

Missing features:
- search
- user profiles
- better sharing options
- improved reader (fontsize, etc)

Released under GPLv3

Download Instructions:
Download: http://borho.net/pub/klippr_0.4.0_armel.deb (0.4.0)

Webpage: http://mborho.github.com/klippr
Source: https://github.com/mborho/klippr

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maecaltasks
Developer: jackburton
Category: Desktop, System & Utilities
Beginner: No
Platform: Fremantle (N900)

Application Description:
It’s a task list GUI wrapper built around the native calendardb of the N900. The default UI really sucks. The API is strong. This app tries to bridge the gap. One of the benefits of using the native calendar is that tools such as syncevolution should still work with it.

I added a feature to store the tasks and notes items in the databases in their own folders. There are also a few ’smart’ views.

Most of the work I did was around designing and building the UI.

Download Instructions:
This should be available via extras-dev. Both builds I submitted said ”OK”.

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MeeWOD
Developer: fl4f
Category: Desktop, System & Utilities
Beginner: Yes
Platform: Harmattan

Application Description:
I’m an active crossfitter, and regularly need access to the hero workouts, access to daily workouts from the crossfit.com main site; and ability to log my workouts.
Right now the application manages all of that.

It uses sqlite database for storage, it is writting in c++ and QML for the ui.

Download Instructions:
Announce thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=86659

Download link: http://pub.arnbak.com/meewod/meewod_0.0.1_armel.deb

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modern computer flatboat
Developer: frafl
Category: Desktop, System & Utilities
Beginner: No
Platform: Fremantle (N900)

Application Description:
(modern computer) flatboat is a pdf viewer designed for mobile devices. I started developing it in early August 2012. As the pdf library, I use MuPDF’s libfitz (which I ported to maemo for that purpose), whereas the GUI is written in Qt (QML).
Since I needed a reader for (multicolumn) mathematical PDFs, flatboat tries to detect columns by joining the text blocks of libfitz’s fz_text_page. Nearly every function has a key mapped to it, so that you don’t need the touchscreent to view the PDF. This is especially true for the column mode, where the next button (and keys mapped to it) scroll down, until the end of the column is reached.
The document viewed before the current one is accessible via 1, the one before via 2 a.s.o., a list of all these documents is provided if you press O (for open) or click on ”file”.
The uses may toggle the flicking directions with the key S or by clicking the toggle button in the upper bar.
Because the first search in a document reads all fz_text_pages and converts them to QStrings, it is quite slow, but this speeds up further searches drastically.
Text mode is just an emergency mode (equals pdftotext or similar), which will probably be removed, if I implement a real reflow mode.

For a timeline of my work, see the git repository:
https://gitorious.org/flatboat

Download Instructions:
m.c. flatboat is in Extras-Devel: http://maemo.org/packages/view/flatboat/
An untested harmattan build (as well as an android build) can be downloaded from dropbox (see announce thread).
Announce thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=86538

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PowEdit
Developer: marmistrz
Category: Desktop, System & Utilities
Beginner: No
Platform: Fremantle (N900)

Application Description:
PowEdit is an application to customize the contents of the power key menu entries.

Features:
Launch any application that has an icon in the app. menu
Launch any registered DBus service
Launch any xterm command
Select application from the list of installed apps
Manual editing of any of the fields
Edit any entry created by PowEdit
Delete any entry not created by external program.

Download Instructions:
Announce thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=86633
1. Enable extras-devel
2. In Hildon App. Manager install PowEdit or

To run, just click the entry in the menu

Additional notes:
To minimize click top left corner, to close click top right corner

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ReferIt
Developer: abhinav12
Category: Desktop, System & Utilities
Beginner: Yes
Platform: Harmattan

Application Description:
A simple online dictionary app featuring audio pronunciation.

Download Instructions:
You can download first version from here http://code.google.com/p/referit/downloads/list
Updating can also be found on the same page in days to come as I’ll be improving it gradually.

All those who will be trying, please let run app for sometime on first run. It creates a database of word list for suggestions. I’m using SCOWL word list’s smallest variant for time being . User might also find some missing info in meaning. I’m not able to complete the parser right now.

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Desktop, System, and Utilities (Part 3 of 3)


Saera
Developer: Taixzo
Category: Desktop, System & Utilities
Beginner: No
Platform: Fremantle (N900)

Application Description:
Saera is a Siri clone for Fremantle. I started this because there are like 5 Android ones that popped up after Siri was released, but nobody made one for the N900. Siri obviously is more integrated with iOS than Saera can ever hope to be with Maemo, but hopefully we can get close. Saera uses Pocketsphinx for voice recognition and eSpeak to talk, and calls out to modRana for navigation and local search. Saera can also do a few other things, with more being added every day:
- Tell you the time, both where you are and in a few major cities
- Greet you
- Verify she’s working, if you say ”testing”
- Take a picture
- Tell you random facts about the N900
- Tell you where you are if you’re lost
- Search for food near you
- Read you new emails as they come in
- Read you new IMs as they come in
- Set alarms
- Play and pause music

Download Instructions:
Saera is in the extras-devel repository; you can download it from the Application Manager once you’ve enabled the catalog.
Announce thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=84753
Wiki page: http://wiki.maemo.org/Saera

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Server Status Widget
Developer: Ashish Bhate (briggers)
Category: Desktop, System & Utilities
Beginner: Yes
Platform: Fremantle (N900)

Application Description:
Serverstatuswidget is a desktop widget for Maemo 5. It allows you to monitor the status of servers by pinging them periodically.

For more information
1. http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=86645
2. http://wiki.maemo.org/Serverstatuswidget

I built this widget from scratch. I learnt pymaemo by looking at the source code of the sleeper and recaller widget by Tom Waelti and reading the tutorials on the wiki.
The widget is complete, but I’d like to add some more features to it when I get the time. See the wiki for the list of features I hope to add in the next version.

Download Instructions:
For more information and download details, please see
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=86645
I’m working on uploading the package to extras-devel.

For help on using this widget, please see
http://wiki.maemo.org/Serverstatuswidget

Please use the wiki for feature requests and bug reports

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Sync Yourself
Developer: adityamhatre
Category: Desktop, System & Utilities
Beginner: Yes
Platform: Harmattan

Application Description:
This is for you if you think you can count one minute precisely and exactly in your mind without watching clock

Download Instructions:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24425541/syn....0.1_armel.deb

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timenow
Developer: qwazix
Category: Desktop, System & Utilities
Beginner: No
Platform: Fremantle (N900)

Application Description:
Timenow is a utility that takes care to show the lockscreen when you pull your N900 out of your pocket. It allows you to just see the time and put it back, or unlock it and start working.

It uses the proximity sensor to do that, and there is a simple configuration file in ~./timenow/settings.ini

There are no screenshots as this application does not have any user interface, there is however a promotional image

Download Instructions:
talk.maemo.org announce thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=83682
download location: maemo-extras-devel http://repository.maemo.org/extras-d....0.9_armel.deb

My thanks to everybody that contributed.

PS. The thread started long before the first release of timenow, as a way to gather ideas to do something like this, but the first actual binary was posted in the 9th of july in this not-so-optimistic post:
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...9&postcount=38

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USSD balance
Developer: Avis
Category: Desktop, System & Utilities
Beginner: No
Platform: Harmattan

Application Description:
Simple application fo MeeGo Harmattan to get balance of the mobile account over the USSD requests.
Program queries the balance when user clicks program’s icon, gets the reply, cuts digits and shows them to the user in different ways.
Features:
– USSD sending/recieving
– updating balance after Calls/SMS (daemon catching D-BUS messages, can be switched on/off)
– updating balance on time (time can be set in format HH:MM or hh:mm AM/PM etc..) (new in version 0.0.5)
– calculated difference since last update (shown in Notificaton) (new in version 0.0.5)
– calculated call length (shown in Notificaton) (new in version 0.0.6)
– optional delay of auto-update (new in version 0.0.6)
– display balance on standby screen (new in version 0.0.7)
– pop-up window catching and dismissing (in two ways: click emulation or force window closing – see option ”hard-kill”)
– showing balance over the program’s icon
– showing balance through the Notifications (optional)
– native configuration through the control panel (Settings->Applications->USSD balance)
– multilanguage (english, russian)

Download Instructions:
Program is in beta state. It can be downloaded directly from here: http://avis.allnokia.ru/ussdbalance_0.0.7_armel.deb
Installation is possible through the Terminal or from the file manager like FileBox.
Sample configuration for the program shown on the screenshot.
More information available at forum’s topic: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=1260344

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VirtRanSim
Developer: Wikiwide
Category: Desktop, System & Utilities
Beginner: No
Platform: Fremantle (N900)

Application Description:
VirtRanSim is a simple Hildon Control Panel applet which allows user to choose a virtual keyboard to use. As far as I know, before it was created, the only way to change the onscreen virtual keyboard was to directly change the setting by writing a gconf command in X-Terminal. It was tedious, and not exactly user-friendly. This application can be started by clicking appropriate entry in Hildon Control Panel. It shows, in a dialogue, selector with list of files any of which could be used as a virtual keyboard. When the selection is changed, a banner (yellow strip) shows information about the currently selected file: name and description of the package to which it belongs. If the dialogue is dismissed, virtual keyboard is not changed. If the ”OK” button is pressed, virtual keyboard is set in accordance with the selection.

Download Instructions:
The package was uploaded to Extras-Devel with gracious assistance of Maemo Extras Assistant. It can be installed by ”apt-get install virtransim”, for instance, since the name of the package is ”virtransim”. The icon has been recently created, and is not included in the package yet. The most recent version is 0.1.1 for now, but it can quickly change: its current icon is very confusing. Considering that the N900 it was created on is not working right now (hardware problem), beta-testers and any feedback would be welcome.

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widgets
Developer: Lucien XU / Sfiet_Konstantin
Category: Desktop, System & Utilities
Beginner: No
Platform:

Application Description:
Widgets is both a Qt/QML library that makes the use of widgets easy on platforms supported by Qt. It is also an application that brings widgets to Harmattan devices.

Widgets are displayed in the lock screen, on several pages, like Maemo or Android. This application also provides docks, that can be combined to widgets and make the device very customizable.

Download Instructions:
Packages can be downloaded from https://sourceforge.net/projects/lib...es/Stable/1.0/.
Installation is done as usual, by downloading the package and clicking on it. The installation is quite long and will replace the lockscreen when completed.

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Wleux
Developer: Khertan
Category: Desktop, System & Utilities
Beginner: No
Platform: Harmattan

Application Description:
Wleux is a little utility to setup a wallpaper for your n9 or n950 by selecting it from the desktoppr.co service.

Download Instructions:
Application is available on Apps 4 MeeGo : http://apps.formeego.com

Support Page : http://khertan.net/wleux
Sources : http://github.com/khertan/Wleux
Bug Tracker : http://github.com/khertan/Wleux/issues

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Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 

Oh well... :(

Is it only me or is it getting every year harder to make a choice? Whom to vote?! :confused:

Overwhelming... just overwhelming.

If Windows Phone would have such a strong and enthusiastic community they would have already overtaken Android. But luckily the good developers are ours! ;)

Fantastic Job guys and good luck!

Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 

Concur. It will not be an easy voting.
A phone can have incredible hardware - camera, gyroscope, magnetometer, et cetera. If only it had MeeGo or Maemo or Nemo or Mer or whatever open source operating system is the easiest to port and tune to perfection... Windows is not my cup of tea. XP is not easy to work with, and the later versions of Windows even more so, with their useless Aero interface. Windows is hopelessly bloated; partly due to its backward compatibility (with a 18-years-old application, for instance), it doesn't feel like whole environment - it feels like bits and pieces, old ruins and recent patches.
I have seen Android. Off the top of my hat, two complaints: the same wallpaper on different screens (compare with different wallpapers of Maemo; Maemo's looping wallpaper is a work of art), and continuously beeping camera (I understand that the phone lacks a dedicated camera button, but there should have been a software half-press-capable button, then). I also don't understand at all whether it's capable of multitasking or not: no task manager seen. And getting Internet on phone through USB from Ubuntu computer... is challenging, to say the least.
My gratitude to you, and to everybody reading, and/or somehow involved with Maemo (or any open source software). Good night, and good luck.

Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 

Just vote for me! Problem solved :D

I am actually quite impressed with the quality of apps/games I have seen. My app doesn't look too nice, but the work I have done has been completed in my spare time and it's mostly backend stuff.

Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 

Quick reply... Voting for human, not for app? Let me see... One of participants has nine entries in three categories; two different developers have each four entries in different categories; another one - five in five... [Counted from the wiki; can somebody take time to clear it up, to compare it with the final lists of entries?] It's not uncommon to have two or three entries, in one or two categories. Overall, it's overwhelming...
My own planned (utilitarian) approach is: voting only for applications which I would actually find useful, probably irreplaceable, on my own phone. Such as, Modrana. MeeCoLay looks promising... Preferably, after testing them on my own device, but good description and screenshots may have to suffice - my N900 is still out of commission.
Best wishes.

Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 

I am very sorry for your loss. My condolences.