Hands-on with MeeGo's Tablet UX (Linux.com)

[Posted April 28, 2011 by jake]

Over at Linux.com, Nathan Willis tries out the developer preview of the MeeGo 1.2 Tablet UX (user experience). "If you are an application developer, the Tablet UX preview gives you a nice playground in which to imagine your app. The real mettle will be shown when MeeGo 1.2 is officially released and a tablet SDK comes along. For now, all you need to know is that MeeGo tablets are going to provide as smooth a user experience as Android. Under the hood, you have a different set of questions to consider, but the MeeGo APIs are not substantially different between the various UXes."

Hands-on with MeeGo's Tablet UX (Linux.com)

Posted Apr 29, 2011 8:54 UTC (Fri) by rvfh (guest, #31018) [Link] (4 responses)

Do we really want a new SDK? Or do we just want a compatible env for Android apps? I would say both, but providing only the former seems risky to me...

Hands-on with MeeGo's Tablet UX (Linux.com)

Posted Apr 29, 2011 18:43 UTC (Fri) by aleXXX (subscriber, #2742) [Link] (1 responses)

I think having a mobile platform which is free and actually is Linux would be a good thing (Android is Google/Linux as opposed to GNU/Linux, so to say).

Alex

Hands-on with MeeGo's Tablet UX (Linux.com)

Posted Apr 30, 2011 22:47 UTC (Sat) by speedster1 (guest, #8143) [Link]

Not sure what 'we' in general want, but personally I greatly prefer developing real Linux apps to the android stuff.

Hands-on with MeeGo's Tablet UX (Linux.com)

Posted May 2, 2011 9:35 UTC (Mon) by ersi (guest, #64521) [Link]

There's a lot to wish for with Android.

I'd rather see MeeGo get off the ground though. I've been rooting for MeeGo quite a while.

Hands-on with MeeGo's Tablet UX (Linux.com)

Posted May 5, 2011 15:49 UTC (Thu) by n8willis (subscriber, #43041) [Link]

The SDK is more that just runtime environment. It includes the IDE supporting the APIs, toolchains for various architectures, plus compilation targets & QEMU emulator images. All of which already exist for the handset/netbook UXes. So yes, we do want that for the tablet UX as well.

Nate

Hands-on with MeeGo's Tablet UX (Linux.com)

Posted Apr 29, 2011 12:09 UTC (Fri) by Hanno (guest, #41730) [Link] (1 responses)

How about a product I can actually buy? (The Wetab was a joke.)

Hands-on with MeeGo's Tablet UX (Linux.com)

Posted May 2, 2011 9:37 UTC (Mon) by ersi (guest, #64521) [Link]

Care to elaborate on the joke? What's so bad about it? Seems pretty neat and has a very polished feeling when holding it.

Hands-on with MeeGo's Tablet UX (Linux.com)

Posted May 1, 2011 2:40 UTC (Sun) by xxiao (guest, #9631) [Link] (1 responses)

These days it appears only Apps and user-experience matter. Would love to see a Davlik on Meego(or any other platform, e.g. yocto) to run android apps, while has a real Linux env underneath.

Hands-on with MeeGo's Tablet UX (Linux.com)

Posted May 5, 2011 15:52 UTC (Thu) by n8willis (subscriber, #43041) [Link]

UX == user experience.

Nate