I started this post on the 5800, true facts.
WordPress.org announced they were going to make a mobile app “for Nokia.” (that means Qt based targeting both Symbian and Maemo) There’s an early, feature incomplete development version on dev.nokia.wordpress.org, and it’s kinda amazing! The app’s interface really feels like its iPhone and Android counterparts (in terms of how it’s structured, not how it looks, of course), and the installer is just 217kb. And if they manage to get the same code to run on Maemo and Symbian just as nicely, it will be the first major 3rd party app to prove Nokia’s “code for Qt easily, deploy anywhere” idea. Exciting times.
P.S. Yeah it looks awful, wait for Symbian^3 if you want it to look native~ (good if those N98 rumors floating around are real)
P.P.S. I got an N900! Waiting until I complete one week of ownership to put down some thoughts about it. Liking it a lot so far though!
Update: There’s a Maemo built out, tried it and it is essentially the same application. And despite some different pop up menus and some er… overall whiteness of the app, it looks just native.
You know the menus that appear on tapping on the application title bar? Yeah, those are white. Odd.
Qt is going places y’all.
WordPress for Nokia is looking kinda amazing! (or, Qt and the future of Symbian)
I started this post on the 5800, true facts.
WordPress.org announced they were going to make a mobile app “for Nokia.” (that means Qt based targeting both Symbian and Maemo) There’s an early, feature incomplete development version on dev.nokia.wordpress.org, and it’s kinda amazing! The app’s interface really feels like its iPhone and Android counterparts (in terms of how it’s structured, not how it looks, of course), and the installer is just 217kb. And if they manage to get the same code to run on Maemo and Symbian just as nicely, it will be the first major 3rd party app to prove Nokia’s “code for Qt easily, deploy anywhere” idea. Exciting times.
P.S. Yeah it looks awful, wait for Symbian^3 if you want it to look native~ (good if those N98 rumors floating around are real)
P.P.S. I got an N900! Waiting until I complete one week of ownership to put down some thoughts about it. Liking it a lot so far though!
Update: There’s a Maemo built out, tried it and it is essentially the same application. And despite some different pop up menus and some er… overall whiteness of the app, it looks just native.
You know the menus that appear on tapping on the application title bar? Yeah, those are white. Odd.
Qt is going places y’all.