Thread: Dear developers/programmers: How to develop for Maemo?
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fatalsaint is offline fatalsaint
2010-06-15 , 05:43
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Originally Posted by MaxJP View Post
Sorry to ask this... But may I ask how do you guys develop apps for N900? I know it's stupid to ask but I'm really curious about this...
I, personally, develop in Python using the QT4 bindings. This is called PyQt4.

This can easily be developed directly on the device itself (N900), and it can be developed without any SDK or scratchbox or emulating environment on your Desktop PC. All you need, is the proper PyQt4 development apps on your system (Linux is easiest IMHO. Not sure how Windows PyQt4 is.)

Write the code, copy the files to N900, and run. No compiling, no converting, no hassel. And if you aren't doing anything weird (like dbus calls to an FM Transmitter your PC doesn't have..) then you can actually run the app right on your desktop, make sure it runs right, and then copy it to the N900 and watch it instantly become "Maemo-ized" for you.

As far as how to code for the N900... there are plenty of Tutorials covering that already.
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