[maemo-developers] I've installed the Maemo 5 development environment, then what?

[From: daniel wilms]

Hi Peter,

the SDK you are using is still in beta state. But anyway you can run 
your applications in the X86 target and the Fremantle UI within the SDK. 
Instructions how to start it, you will find in the installation 
instructions [1], even though unfortunately the address book is not part 
of it. But it will be there in the final version. So please have a 
little bit of patience.

For the address book API, you could check out this page out of the 
documentation [2].

In general you can add applications in the SDK by using aptitude. For 
example if you add this line to your sources list (/etc/apt/sources.list):

deb http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel fremantle free non-free

and run

apt-get update

and finally:

apt-get install "application-name"

you can install and test some applications in the SDK, but in some cases 
with limited functionality. Your own app you can test and run as well 
with the command

run-standalone.sh "excecutable file"


[1] 
http://maemo.org/development/sdks/maemo_5_beta_2_sdk_installation/#StartUI
[2] 
http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/Maemo_5_Developer_Guide/Using_Generic_Platform_Components/Using_Address_Book_API

I hope this helped you a bit,

Cheers Daniel

ext Peter Follo wrote:
> I guess I'm missing something pretty obvious here but I've been 
> looking for an answer for a few days now without success. :-/ Worth to 
> mention I'm a totally maemo newbie.
>
> I've followed the instructions on how to setup the maemo 5 SDK on 
> ubuntu and it went just fine (I think) but I was ecxpeting more, 
> greedy as I am.
>
> How do I add apps. Lets say I want to develop an app for the upcomming 
> nokia n900 that brings up the address book for the user to pick a 
> contact in it. Ok, I found the libosso-abook package and I guess it 
> will do the trick but I miss the actual adressbook application to be 
> launched.
>
> Can I get it somewhere?
>
> Is there a repo to add or some downloads to get a "n900 emulator"?
>
>
>
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