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DEV: WebOS on iPhone :)

I am starting a new project to port webOS over to the iPhone 3G 3GS and 4.
I have a website where i will be posting updates with project info. Also I am looking for someone with Linux experience as i have only a Windows 7 PC.
I need about 3 more people to help me with this.
Any takers?
Please PM if you think you can help thank you.

vdcmini said:
I am starting a new project to port webOS over to the iPhone 3G 3GS and 4.
I have a website where i will be posting updates with project info. Also I am looking for someone with Linux experience as i have only a Windows 7 PC.
I need about 3 more people to help me with this.
Any takers?
Please PM if you think you can help thank you.
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Any three people? Or do you have specific skill-sets that are required? What skill-sets do you bring to the project?
-- Rod

rwhitby said:
Any three people? Or do you have specific skill-sets that are required? What skill-sets do you bring to the project?
-- Rod
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What i bring is the website to post fast download links and a blog, also, the phone. lol
I need someone who can extract the firmware though.

vdcmini said:
What i bring is the website to post fast download links and a blog, also, the phone. lol
I need someone who can extract the firmware though.
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So you have a website, a blog, a webOS phone and an iPhone. That's a pretty unique skillset. I wonder why no-one with that set of things tried to port webOS to the iPhone before? Once you've got that skillset the rest must be pretty straight-forward, no?
BTW, you can get links to download the webOS firmware from HP's official servers here: http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/Webos_Doctor_Versions
Note that redistributing it (or any modifications of it) is illegal, so you may want to figure out that small issue first in your project plan ...
Good luck with your endeavour.
-- Rod

Are you being sarcastic, Rod? I suppose he deserves it by the know-how he puts forward. So if I get it right, he just has a website and wants others to develop and get the reward. Pretty nice business plan!

He also has a dream...the same one I have but I have an EVO 3d... Which I think should be easier...
Rod I was thinking can't it be done part way like webpage 2.1 on pre- using meta scripts?
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Rod would you like a pre-? As a donation?
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ceyo14 said:
Rod would you like a pre-? As a donation?
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Thanks very much for your offer.
Unfortunately, none of our developers use a Pre- these days for anything other than webOS 1.4.5 legacy testing.
I'm personally using a 1.4GHz 16GB HP Pre 3.
-- Rod

I dont get the point of it. Iphones are expensive and run unique hardware only made by apple. With that expense comes the seamless apple experience ,decent reliability and the proprietary is operating system. If your going to throw all that away,why even pay for the iphone to begin with. Their hardware is really no better than the stuff from htc. Htc hardware on the other hand is well understood and in fact,is very similar to the hardware in the touchpad.
Personally,I dont see the point of webOS on anything now. It honestly has few game changing features. What it does have is a unique UI that many people like. Rather than port webOS to other platforms,why not make a UI for android that takes the best things from webOS and throws out the bad ones,and fixes what needs to be fixed. Then you have something
really great,with a great UI,the ability to run android aps,but without many of the drawbacks of android.
As for your project,I doubt you will get any takers. What I suggest is you simply learn to do the work yourself. Start by downloading a Linux distro and installed it on an old pc.

XobotOS

I know we've locked bootloader but I think the XobotOS would be interesting for someone who have hope....
it's an android 4.0 compiled by C# with huge of speed gain.
The meaning? It's still in observation.
I think many of you developers may want to look at it
the google search shortcut is here: http://goo.gl/Z4nWU

You got me all excited when I saw this thread title...Shame on you.

This is not development. It is more like "news". Moved to General.

Chrisruns said:
You got me all excited when I saw this thread title...Shame on you.
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hey , it's some information. maybe it's not too useful as expected. i am sorry for that.
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Not saying it will be of any help to us, but I am a huge fan of this project... Mostly because I find Java terribly cumbersome and inefficient... It's my least favorite of all languages

I sent the source files posted to github to a very experienced developer on the photon forum and he seemed very interested as well as a few other well known devs there. These guys brought the first working ics build to a tegra2 device and have accomplished so much. I've seen more of their work posted to the xda portal than any other dev. I'm excited to see what they can do with it
Also if anything.. I think a hybrid between the two would be amazing. Some parts of android and the apps that use it I assume require some Java but the use of mono over dalvik and other enhancements from C# would revolutionize the smartphone experience
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Sounds awesome, can't wait to see where this goes.
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I saw XobotOS the past weekend and it is the best thing I heard about Android. That was awesome! Android ported to C# to finally forget Java... AWESOME!
It will rise the performance and the battery lasting with the Java Android.
I sent the link to Xamarin blog to the XatakaAndroid staff and made a post about it on HtcMania forum (also I sent a link to the administrator to put it on the home page).
If only Android 5.0 was developed under C#...

[ROM-Petition] Petition for Ubuntu touch on the HOS

Hello People,
I read a thread which started a petition to get XDA -Dev users to test the Ubuntu Touch OS on the HOS. I recently checked the petition again and saw that it was only 250 submissions short. i dont know about you guys, but I would really enjoy using and of course testing and reporting the Ubuntu Touch OS. This is why I ask you guys to sign this, if you also want to see Ubuntu Touch to get to the HTC One S.
ww w. change. org/petitions/canonical-use-users-of-xda-developers-com-as-testers-for-ubuntu-for-phone
Kogadin
To the Mods, If i really need to remove the link, because i am still under the required posts, I will. I just wanted to get this petition out there again
if i find the original thread I will link it, or if someone else finds it.

kogadin said:
Hello People,
I read a thread which started a petition to get XDA -Dev users to test the Ubuntu Touch OS on the HOS. I recently checked the petition again and saw that it was only 250 submissions short. i dont know about you guys, but I would really enjoy using and of course testing and reporting the Ubuntu Touch OS. This is why I ask you guys to sign this, if you also want to see Ubuntu Touch to get to the HTC One S.
ww w. change. org/petitions/canonical-use-users-of-xda-developers-com-as-testers-for-ubuntu-for-phone
Kogadin
To the Mods, If i really need to remove the link, because i am still under the required posts, I will. I just wanted to get this petition out there again
if i find the original thread I will link it, or if someone else finds it.
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In my experience; trying to force developers to do something just because you want it done never works. I know that is probably not how you meant the petition to look but in my mind it looks more like "See, here is the number of people that want this. Now make it happen" instead of "Hey, there are a bunch of people on this list that would love if you could make this, but it's completely up to you.":silly:

Well i didnt start the petition and its not specifically for the HOS but rather a petition so the XDA users, who generally have more knowledge about OSs and ROMs than the average consumer, can test the OS and report bugs etc. This in return, should help Ubuntu Touch to be as bug free as possible from release on. I do get your point, i just think its not like forcing a single dev to make something, as it is The Ubuntu Team working on the OS, additionally the Ubuntu Team would get a huge community base to test their operating system, and report bugs they find.
Kogadin

I frequent the Dev section and basically so far many devs want to build Ubuntu for the HOS, however it just isn't that easy. The lack of ROM hasn't been the result of a lack of trying.

Somebody's out there trying man http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2206904 just be patient and have faith.. I've seen youtube videos of it running on the One X so hopefully it will be running on our devices in the near future.. What these devs have is a talent. I wish I could do what they do...

Found that thread after I wrote this one. I was really excited. And I really hope that the developers will succeed in porting ubuntu to our awesome phone
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It would be nice to have this os to test but to be honest I'm not a fan and don't think its a great product. I'm sticking to android but good luck
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Lets Make History!!

Hello dev's nation wide!!
I have a dream! I want to form a team to make a open source android ROM! I want this ROM to be for education where people can use it to learn!
I am a software developer but I do know how to make custom ROM's or launchers!! That's why I want to form a team to make this dream real!
so if you can do the following please help out!!
Graphic designer
ROM development
Launcher development
develop or have educational apps! please consider letting use you app in our ROM (Great way to advertise!) you can still sell you apps for full profit!!
our can contribute to the project please email me at [email protected] and lets make history today!!

This has already been done for Linux: https://edubuntu.org/
I don't see the point of trying to reproduce the efforts of this project for Android devices. Who is your target audience?

I would like to do it for k-8 graders on tablets like the nexus 7 and nexus 10 would you be interested in helping out? Do you know anything about wrong development? If so if you don't want to help the projects I would really appreciate any hope for is learning how to develop a ROM or a launcher theme thank you for can providing the the link on the Linux distro I did not know this but I would still like to pursue this project if possible
Thanks in advance
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cyanmod for education

Hello my company and I have been working on several applications and utilities for education for Android devices although we are group of talented application developers none of us know anything about ROM development we're looking for someone or a group of people that would be willing to team up with us and help us create an open source cyanmod based rom with our applications built into it for education!
If you are interested feel free to comment or PM me and let's get this thing started soon
Thank you have a great day
Rapsong11
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