[maemo-developers] Methods for developping on the device itself

[From: Thomas Perl]

Hi!

2010/7/8 Cedric Cellier <rixed at happyleptic.org>:
> I have more or less implemented the third alternative, up to a point
> where I managed to compile the sample widget of the maemo documentation,
> but I'm unsatisfied by the result and wondering if something simplier
> exist.
>
> What are you using ?

If you don't do many CPU-intensive tasks in your app, Python would be
a very good alternative to C for GUI apps. Apart from the fact that
the Python interpreter is most likely already installed on your device
(and that means you have already got the development environment on it
as well), you can save yourself some CPU cycles compiling your
application.

The Hack-Compile-Test cycle becomes a more efficient Hack-Test-Hack
cycle. The PyMaemo team has done a great job providing good bindings
for Hildon and most Maemo libraries.

Of course, this might not be a good option if you already have a
complete application written in C.

HTH.
Thomas