Dear friends<br><br> This is my first post in this list. Last year I developed one YARC<br>(Yet Another Remote Control) for S60 cellphones using Python, so I<br>could drive presentation slides and movies using my cellphone.<br><br> The project was named Amora (A mobile remote assistant) and is hosted at:<br>http://amora.googlecode.com/<br><br> Since last december I finally got one N810, I started thinking in the<br>idea of writing a client for the maemo platform. Last december was the<br>release of Canola 2.0 beta, a brilliant showcase of Python + EFL<br>power.<br><br> Since the original client was written in Python too, I thought it<br>would make sense to write it in Python (again) and EFL.<br><br> I had draw a mockup of how I see the application should look and<br>started to play with python + EFL in my spare time. This and<br>instructions to setup a python + EFL development environment can be<br>found at:
http://groups.google.com/group/amora-devel<br><br> What is really appealing in this technology is the possibility of<br>developing the apps *without* scratchbox. All the programs run as native<br>Linux desktop apps (but that is another story).<br><br> Anyway, we (I and Tomaz Noleto) did some progress in the Tamora<br>(Tablet amora) app. It currently does:<br><br> - display animated icons using Edje (sort of...)<br> - scan for Bluetooth devices around<br> - select a device and connect using Bluetooth<br><br>What is missing for a very basic client is:<br><br> - start to send commands to Amora server: should be easy, the<br>protocol is based in simply strings like TAKE_SCREENSHOT and the<br>we can reuse some of cellphone client code;<br><br> - transfer screenshot thumbnails over BT sockets: again not difficult<br><br> - display a dynamically loaded screenshot image at run time: I have<br>no idea since this is a EFL
issue.<br><br> The problem is that we are both lacking the spare time to continue its<br>development (at least up to the next vacations). So I decided to come<br>to the maemo community and ask for help. Recently I created a project<br>within garage to host activities related to it:<br>https://garage.maemo.org/projects/amora/<br><br> So, if you have some spare time in you hands, known how to program<br>in C or Python and want to play with EFL, maybe Amora is good project<br>to contribute. I think we all are going to learn something doing it.<br>:-)<br><br><br>Best regards<br><br><br>Adenilson<br><p> 
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