[maemo-developers] Asking for developers and user support for a N900 application

[From: Andrea Grandi]

Hi,

2009/9/5 Thomas Perl <th.perl at gmail.com>:
> Great! I've been thinking about writing such an app myself for my
> carrier (Orange Austria), because they charge for sending me the
> current stats via SMS, but it's free on the web (using a data plan).
>
> Maybe we can join forces ;)

of course we can :)

I'll structure the code to make each carrier a different subclass.
Don't know how much code we'll be able to re-use but if someone wants
to add support for another carrier it won't be to much different and
will have lot of examples to look at.

> These links might be useful (the first for the "login to the website"
> part, the second for parsing the response):
>
> http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/
> http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/

I'll give a look to them

> Oh, and maybe you can separate the UI and business logic so
> that we can also put a GTK/Hildon UI on top of the app for better
> Fremantle UI integration?

of course we can :)

I can do the Qt UI and you the GTK/Hildon one if you want.

p.s: at the moment we'll have a big problem: python2.5 included in
Fremantle is compiled without SSL support, so we cannot login to https
websites (almost all) :(

We can workaround for the moment, doing the development on our Linux
distributions and then, when PyMaemo team will fix this (I already
have submitted a bug entry) we'll be able to test this on Fremantle
too or directly (let's hope) into the final device.

Regards,

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