Mobile Application
For a while now I have thought about writing an application for my N97. There are a few things that I've thought about writing including an LJ client and a client application for Wayfinder. Plus there are regularly little simple things that would come in handy.
Lat week I was looking around to see what is needed to write an application and go quite excited to find that Perl has been ported to Symbian. This would mean that I could use my language of choice to build mobile aplications.....except for one problem - Perl needs to installed on the target phone which is fine for mine but troublesome when one wants to share the application with other people.
So I've bitten the bullet and installed Qt Creator and the N97 SDK from Nokia and have started writing a Sybian C++ application. I have always avoided C++ like the plague everytime my path has come close to it but it seems at last I have to do something with it. It is certainly a steep learning curve!
I've started writing something simple just to get the idea of how the IDE and application building process actually works. The app displays the current battery level on a progress bar and the current GPS position as latitude and longitude and all are refreshed when an appropriately named button is clicked. The battery level part is working but last night I wrote the GPS position part.....it all builds and compiles fine but promptly crashes the simulator when tested which is not good.
I can see this being a very slow development process utilising lots and lots of trial and error!
Lat week I was looking around to see what is needed to write an application and go quite excited to find that Perl has been ported to Symbian. This would mean that I could use my language of choice to build mobile aplications.....except for one problem - Perl needs to installed on the target phone which is fine for mine but troublesome when one wants to share the application with other people.
So I've bitten the bullet and installed Qt Creator and the N97 SDK from Nokia and have started writing a Sybian C++ application. I have always avoided C++ like the plague everytime my path has come close to it but it seems at last I have to do something with it. It is certainly a steep learning curve!
I've started writing something simple just to get the idea of how the IDE and application building process actually works. The app displays the current battery level on a progress bar and the current GPS position as latitude and longitude and all are refreshed when an appropriately named button is clicked. The battery level part is working but last night I wrote the GPS position part.....it all builds and compiles fine but promptly crashes the simulator when tested which is not good.
I can see this being a very slow development process utilising lots and lots of trial and error!