[maemo-developers] Newbie questions

[From: Dave Neary]

Hi,

Javier Gálvez Guerrero wrote:
> I want to develop a mobile IPTV application, so I need a mobile platform
> to do it on.
> 
> After considering Android and Moblin I got into Maemo and I would like
> to know which advantages offers over the other options.

Actually, moblin and Maemo are very similar platforms. moblin is based
on the same GNOME Mobile stack, and also includes Hildon (or it did
until recently).

For an IPTV application, you probably have all you need in just the
GNOME Mobile stack - GStreamer, GTK+, Xorg, libxml2...

> More specifically, what I need to develop are two applications: a
> seamless wireless connection daemon manager and a mobile IPTV service
> client. In order to implement the first, I need to get some information
> from the WiFi/3G/WiMAX drivers, such as signal strength and essid name.
> For the mobile IPTV I would need to develop a GUI with an embedded video
> player and parse XML files.

For hardware information, you will always be device-specific. With the
Nokia internet tablets, you have a well defined interface for wifi and
wimax (with N810 Wimax editions), but these interfaces are not part of
Maemo (or, as far as I know, moblin).

> Any piece of advice will be much appreciated as I have been reading some
> documentation and how-to's but I have some serious doubts about Maemo
> development as you can see.

Good luck! I hope you find the information you're looking for.

Cheers,
Dave.

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