Re: What are pros and cons of the different devel environments: qtopia, android, openmoko

2008-01-17 Thread Zeth Green
So the questions remain: What features make you choose one over the other? And in particular, regarding Lorn's point below, how do you feel about the different APIs? I am a lurker in the Openmoko world at the moment. I am not a hardware person and my ideas for applications involve a

Re: What are pros and cons of the different devel environments: qtopia, android, openmoko

2008-01-17 Thread Tim Knapp
Hi Zeth, On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 11:08 +, Zeth Green wrote: So the questions remain: What features make you choose one over the other? And in particular, regarding Lorn's point below, how do you feel about the different APIs? I am a lurker in the Openmoko world at the moment. I am not

Re: What are pros and cons of the different devel environments: qtopia, android, openmoko

2008-01-17 Thread Jay Vaughan
For myself I like scripting languages, Python being my favourite, and I am hoping the OpenMoko will either come with some kind of scripting language or let me get one via the package manager. (I'm sure you guys have a plan for this - as I said I am just a lurker so do not know all the

Re: What are pros and cons of the different devel environments: qtopia, android, openmoko

2008-01-17 Thread Jay Vaughan
This is what I've currently got on my OM: i would dearly love to have pyglet, personally .. ; -- Jay Vaughan ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: What are pros and cons of the different devel environments: qtopia, android, openmoko

2008-01-17 Thread dwight at supercomputer.org
SVHMPC is more about encouraging and supporting people to do their own thing, rather than one single platform. A support network for different projects, to exchange ideas, share information, and encourage innovation. It's a heck of a lot of fun to sit around and talk with a bunch of bright

Re: What are pros and cons of the different devel environments: qtopia, android, openmoko

2008-01-17 Thread Lorn Potter
Zeth Green wrote: Back to the topic, I am interested in OpenMoko for two reasons. Firstly, and most importantly, as has been previously expressed, the current Android platform proposals and similar Linux phones such as motorola's own Linux platform are thoroughly uninteresting to me so far,

Re[2]: What are pros and cons of the different devel environments: qtopia, android, openmoko

2008-01-17 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Lorn Potter wrote: Zeth Green wrote: Back to the topic, I am interested in OpenMoko for two reasons. Firstly, and most importantly, as has been previously expressed, the current Android platform proposals and similar Linux phones such as motorola's own Linux platform are thoroughly

What are pros and cons of the different devel environments: qtopia, android, openmoko

2008-01-16 Thread Michael Shiloh
Lorn reminds me that there is another option in the open source Linux frameworks for mobile devices space. (I think SVHMPC wanted to include Trolltech as well. Not sure what happened.) (And of course there are other options besides these three.) So the questions remain: What features make you

Re: What are pros and cons of the different devel environments: qtopia, android, openmoko

2008-01-16 Thread Mathew Davis
For me the close tie in with the hardware is what interests me in the project. It is not just software. You have access to the accelerometers data, gps data, wifi, and all the open hardware. I feel that will lead to the best possible solution for the phone. It is the software working together

Re: What are pros and cons of the different devel environments: qtopia, android, openmoko

2008-01-16 Thread Brandon Kruse
For one, if I understand correctly, android is all java...no thanks. With the whole openmoko build your app package fast tutorial (dev kit), certainly makes it more appealing. Brandon Kruse (bkruse) On Jan 16, 2008, at 7:00 PM, Michael Shiloh [EMAIL