[Charlug] phone programming advice

[Andy Nichols]

Tim Jowers wrote:
> Anyone know the best resources for phone programming? I know Android
> runs on Linux but you program in Java. I think Blackberry is also in
> Java. How about Samsung? (the market leader in the USA). Or Nokia
> (market leader worldwide). Someone else told me just to program in
> Mono and it can be ported to all platforms. Anyone know about that?
> Right now I'm programming Android on Fedora 8 and 10 in Eclipse and it
> works very well except for the 30 seconds or so to start the emulator.
>
> I'm thinking about taking this iPhone boot camp course:
> http://iphoneclt.eventbrite.com/ but it just seems like too many
> platforms to try to target. It says "The iPhone Development
> Accelerator (IDA) course is specifically designed to take you from
> zero to a working application as quickly as possible. " but what I
> really need is some course that tells me how to write once and run
> everywhere. Even Java cannot do it as it has different UI libraries on
> each phone from what I can tell.
>
> Anyone know what is the best approach? The mono thing? Is everyone
> just making separate apps for every single phone?
>
> Thanks!
> TimJowers
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Hi,

You requirement of "write once and run everywhere" sounds a lot like Qt 
Software's motto:

Code less.
Create more.
Deploy everywhere.

For embedded platforms there is already full support for both embedded 
Linux phone OS's and windows mobile OS's.  Since Qt Software is owned by 
Nokia now they also have released a Symbian S60 OS demo release so its 
only a matter of time before you will be able to deploy to S60 powered 
Nokia phones as well.  Check out this tech demo here:
http://www.qtsoftware.com/developer/technical-preview-qt-for-s60

So if maybe you are interested in deploying to desktops as well as 
phones and other embedded devices you should check out Qt 4.  If you 
have any more questions regarding this path let me know.

Regards,
Andy Nichols