Who is working on Apps for the N900
 

Being a newbie to this forum (mainly due to the N900) and thinking this is the main community for the Maemo OS (be it 4, 5 or 6) where all developers reside.

What i would like to know is what applications can we look forward to when the N900 is officially available.

In other words who is working on updating / making an app available for the N900 and what is the app.

It would be nice to know which apps we can look forward to.

thanks.

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You can see some of the popular ones and commercial apps coming here:
http://maemo.nokia.com/maemo-select/...ons/ovi-store/

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I'm working on getting scdataviz finished, and making gnumeric work on it (and updating the port).

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Reggie,

thanks for the link i browse it everyday for latest updates, however my understanding is it gets updated once the app is complete.

the direction i propose for this thread is for apps which developers are working on but people are not aware of.

2 reasons

1 - people can see what apps are in the pipeline

2 - could prevent a lot of "... that app is available for the Iphone but not for the N900"

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i made some initial work porting Stellarium, but since the device is not out yet, i don't know if there will be any usable port. At least in scratchbox it is painfuly slow!

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If somebody would donate an N900, I'd be more than happy to work on many apps! ;)

I'd love to get mSideShow on one.

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What's "scdataviz"? Is that related to Dataviz's Documents To Go program?

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Your app may breath new life, and find new uses for N800's and 810's. Keep up the good work and hang in there. A lot of folks wont even know what Sideshow is until after October 22.

I hope to use your app with a new Nokia Booklet 3G soon and will give plenty of feedback then... and btw, if you happen to to see a couple of donated N900's, could send one my way please. :)

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And Kalim13 welcome aboard...
A preview of community developed/ported software that is in the works for the N900 can be found
...in the extras-testing QA queue. :)

According to qgil .

...but regard.

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quick q.
if i want to develope a game project for the N900, should i start the thread in Developement or Games ?

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SideShow is in Vista also.


So yeah, thinking about it, a lot of folk won't know. ;)

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Unrelated; scdataviz is the SemiConductor Data Visualization program. (It can be used for more than that, but that's what I wrote it for).

Probably not generally useful, but I find it nice. :)

Re: Who is working on Apps for the N900
 

Are you using software or hardware rendering?

In general, the machine you run sbox on will be faster than the N900. Usually, much faster.

If you have proper graphics acceleration it should work OK with most graphics cards. Even Intel.

According to this page the Debian port runs on ARMEL. The biggest problem I foresee is making use of hardware OpenGL ES instead of OpenGL.

Re: Who is working on Apps for the N900
 

You can see what is available now at Maemo 5

Stable & waiting for N900 users: http://maemo.org/downloads/Maemo5/

Testing / beta / waiting the evaluation of brave testers: http://maemo.org/packages/repository...xtras-testing/

Unstable / alpha / don't touch unless you know what you're doing: http://maemo.org/packages/repository...el_free_armel/

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You can consider me officially working on a wallpaper management application as of this evening, for whatever it's worth...

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@qgil, I think there should be a section on downloads of a coming soon area, instead of having noobs search around extras-testing etc to see what is on the way. Everyone is app-sh*t (Get it like ape-sh*t) right now for apps, and an easy to access list of apps on the way would do a lot of people (bloggers etc) who say the n900 doesn't have any apps.

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I'm working on virtual keyboards and portrait mode desktop

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Sweet, need any design done? I really want those two features, so if there is anyway I can help let me know.

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I have designs/layouts in mind for both. I just got my environment set up this week so hopefully I can at least get something running this weekend.

Keyboard layout is something like this. Ignore the color since this is something quick I laid out in Visual Studio.
http://i34.tinypic.com/vxy9g8.jpg

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Interesting idea. Two thoughts: how to avoid confusion, how to avoid the user installing beta-quality stuff and how to deal with stuff which may never leave -testing.

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can someone please develop a simple bluetooth enable disable widget or a button or something please :)