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The Nokia PUSH N900 program

Posted Sep 17, 2009 11:04 UTC (Thu) by batsys (guest, #54289)
In reply to: The Nokia PUSH N900 program by eru
Parent article: The Nokia PUSH N900 program

I worked on Symbian/Series 60/80/90 for a number of years and it's definitely not for the faint hearted. While I don't want to cast aspertions on anyones abilities I would say that it is a major stumbling block for many developers. Getting Symbian approval was not easy either. As you say hopefully Maemo will help in this respect; it does seem easier to get started. Nokia need to ensure that getting approval for apps is a lot easier than in the past.

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The Nokia PUSH N900 program

Posted Sep 17, 2009 16:08 UTC (Thu) by Cato (guest, #7643) [Link] (1 responses)

Python on the S60 is pretty nice - full Python plus S60 libraries, though I only wrote a simple app to download and rename a file, with a confirmation message.

Getting apps approved and signed is a pain, but if you get a developer key you can sign your own apps - I got such a key but it was quite difficult to sort out.

The Nokia PUSH N900 program

Posted Sep 18, 2009 7:48 UTC (Fri) by batsys (guest, #54289) [Link]

I toyed with Python on S60 and yes it did speed up development by a factor of *lots. Unfortunately we weren't allowed to use it in-house for development, it had to be Symbian. I was down to do some Python examples for Nokia (we did a lot of the Symbian SDK examples) but left the company before it happened. I've not touched S60 (etc.) in anger since because I hated coding in Symbian so much. I'm looking forward to trying an N900 with Qt.