Greetings:

There has been lots of talk about the Iphone SDK.

What can the developers of Nokia do to counteract Apple's SDK?

Personally I find that Developers in this forum always reply to all my questions or problems I have with Maemo Apps, and they reply very fast, less than 3 hours.

But if all of us Nokia Internet Tablet users develop something new, then there will be more Internet Tablet Users.

I really love my Nokia N800, and I hope new apps continue to be developed.

Regards Robert

python and pygtk?

No, really not just python.
How about the same thing the iPhone sdk has? Something you can run, and at the end of it there is everything you need to develop in some C based language application, which then you can press another button to come up with a package you can just upload somewhere?
There would be millions of IT applications if that was the case.

Isn't that what we already have? I haven't used Maemo, but I thought it was just that.

The iPhone SDK is, of course, slicker, but I thought ours met those requirements.

And python, being handily developable on-platform, has a lot going for it. Though I strongly detest the notion of indentation controlling structure.

Seriously . . . I point you all to maemo.org.

ehhh...

Maemo.org leaves MUCH to be desired.

Bleh, don't be thick.

We have an SDK.
It's called maemo.
You can find it at maemo.org.

Enough with this nonsense thread.

Yes - I spent a large amount of my time trying to get the development environment installed, it is about the most complicated one I have used, and that includes the palm one which is awful, and many old PC sdks.

I got something that worked in the end after a lot of work, but most people would have given up long before that. When you do get it working and produce some code, then you are left with the hell that is the packaging.

One of the most impressive things about the maemo developer community is that they are managing to produce anything at all despite having to put up with this. Even before the apple SDK it was easier to write an unsupported application on the iPod than the nokia, now there is no contest.

That's where the VMWare image comes in.

Wheres that then? I couldn't find one for 770 development.

So you have to buy VMWare to develop for maemo? Makes it a lot more expensive than the iPod sdk account signup then.

Certainly now it looks a lot better organised on maemo.org than it was when I was trying to use it last year, when the documentation was wrong. I haven't checked if it is right, but it certainly is better laid out.