Found this while looking for something else and seemed pretty interesting wondering why we dont hear more about this seeing as it is open source?
NemoMobile
This is the team site for the Nemo Mobile user experience, including documentation to latest software and components
nemomobile.net
Background info long time ago nokia developed a new os together with intel to compete with ios and android. They called it meego later nokia brought out a phone with this os called nokia n9 running meego.
By that time microsoft was running the busnins and bore this phone and os in the ground they made it open source and that gave rise to forexample sailfish and this nemomobile os.
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Hi there,
it seems to me most people here develop for WinMo devices, but maybe you can help me out nonetheless.
Currently, I'm a web developer in PHP (+ usual stuff). I studied computer science, so I'm not a newbie when it comes to coding I learned a lot of C and (unfortunately only) basics in Java and C++. I never got my hands on C# or VB and stuff - the only experience in developing applications for Windows Mobile was a small Texas Hold'em Clock (basically a simple countdown and some additional stuff) I did a few months back. I pretty much google'd everything I needed and copy'n pasted the code into Visual Studio - not really developing, but those where my first steps
I consider getting started in development for mobile devices like BlackBerry, Windows Mobile devices, iPhone, Symbian and/or Android. The problem is: I don't know which one of these might turn out useful on when I might be applying for a job later (which is basically my whole point doing this, I don't want to do web development for the rest of my life). Any thoughts?
What type of job do you want to do? first find out what the sort of jobs you want to do require, many software houses use c# so you could develop for windows mobile, if they require java then try android. Iphone uses objective c which isn't used outside of the mac world so unless you want to work for a company which creates mac programs maybe you should try something else.
Then again if you just want to make some cool apps and actually make money from them I would say iphone is the easiest to get you product to market then android with wm coming last.
also if you learn java then you can quickly pick up c# and vice versa so I don't think it really matters either way.
there are of course many other options, if you happen to want a job that requires python you could get the excellent upcoming n900 from nokia
Cant offer advise on that, but what you can do is write a better app for Facebook, the MS one SUCKS compared to the iphones (eeek i said the dirty word............)
ms's also sucks compared to the x1 panel facebook which again is not as good as iphones :S
I was wondering if anyone has explored the possibility of porting Windows Mobile to the android devices.
I know that it's been done the other way.
gprimr1 said:
I was wondering if anyone has explored the possibility of porting Windows Mobile to the android devices.
I know that it's been done the other way.
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Though many have requested it, Windows Mobile has never been ported to any device it was not shipped on. Windows Mobile is extremely complex at the lower levels, consisting of many hardware dependant components which make up the most critical parts of the OS. In addition, it's closed source, so there's no way to modify the source like when Android/Linux is ported to a Windows-based device. In short, don't hold your breath for a release, it won't happen.
DaveTheTytnIIGuy said:
Though many have requested it, Windows Mobile has never been ported to any device it was not shipped on. Windows Mobile is extremely complex at the lower levels, consisting of many hardware dependant components which make up the most critical parts of the OS. In addition, it's closed source, so there's no way to modify the source like when Android/Linux is ported to a Windows-based device. In short, don't hold your breath for a release, it won't happen.
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If its immposible to port WM to Android device then is it possible to port Android ROM on windows Mobile based device..like we do on pc i.installing windows Vista after formatting old OS.
@ psolunke
Yes its possible to get Android running on a WinMo device, its been done with a number of phones.
Basically without Windows Mobile being open source, the chances of it going the other way are slim to none. Not to mention that the HD2 is the only WinMo device with a capactive display while nearly all Android devices have one, which would make it hard to get even that to work.
Hey there folks,
after reading these forums for quite a while and having several smartphones during the last years, I reached the point where I want to start creating my own apps. I tried to google around a bit and found some interesting tutorials on how to start creating apps. I also found several SDKs for different operating systems. But exactly that is the point leading to my question.
Before starting to code: is it possible to choose a platform from where my app can be delivered to each winmo, iphone, blackberry or android?
Or is that just plain impossible? I mean, those are all touch based devices Should'nt be that much of a difference? Originally I wanted to start developing an iphone app, but that would leave out all the android users and so on. I don't want to rewirte everything from scratch for an android device after having finished the iphone variant. And that did not even consider the advent of windows 7.
So, is there any way of coding for all the operating systems, keeping the effort of switching between operating systems low?
greetings and thanks in advance for your help,
your unexperienced coder-in-spe,
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While all four of the devices mentioned all use ARM processors of various flavours to do the work, they are four completely different operating systems, each with their own IDE and programming models.
Even considering Windows Mobile, you have to decide whether you are programming for a SmartPhone/Classic or a Pocket PC/Professional device. In this case it is possible to write code that will run on both WM platforms, but you will have to make that decision at design time, before you even think of writing a single line of code. Your application will then have to act accordingly, depending on the machine on which it runs.
java apps for symbian often works ok on wm using a midlet manager
not sure about android and blackbarry but being java not too much code would be required to port it I suppose
mind you java on wm work pretty poorly
and iphone got rules that you can only make apps using objective-C/c/c++ and their SDK
which is only available if you own a mac computer
Thank you for your answers. Looks like starting to code is not that simple as expected. So I will try developing for iPhone only :/
I'm a WP7 Noob so please keep the jokes down low. But is WP7 Open Source or Closed Source? Development wise!
Sorry, I also just realized this thread should be in the Q&A Section... :/
Closed source. Microsoft does not develop any open-source operating systems at all.
Okay thanks so much. I just had that random question and it kept gnawing at me
But wait, then how can we make Android roms that look and act like WP7?
That's nothing to do with the code, its just how the launcher and other parts of the ROM are designed to look like wp7
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Oh okay
Technically, Microsoft does actually make open-source operating systems (Singularity is open-source, for example, but it's a research OS, not intended for "real" use). Also, while WP7 is not open source, it's kernel and core libraries are somewhere between CE 6 and CE 7, and the source code for those is available (under a license that probably doesn't meet the OSI's definition of open source, since you have to pay a license fee to sell devices running anything you built from the code, but otherwise comes pretty close).
As for the Android skins, that's all they are - skins. They may look like WP7, but they don't actually act like it at all under the covers; they're still Dalvik and POSIX C/C++ running on the Android userspace running on the Linux kernel. With a UI as simple as WP7's, it's pretty easy to make something else that looks the same, although all the skins that I've seen do actually have small diferences.
Cuz I was running a rom on my phone and it emulated WP7. Like everything was themed
Hello XDA!
This is my first post here and I hope all of you will get it serious.
It is posible to make an android phone to boot anything else than Android?
Can we make a little OS from scratch for an android phone?
How and from what point we can start?
Why I ask these? Because I started to hate current mobile operating systems and I miss a lot Symbian...
I really want a new operating system more "offline" and which want to offer long usage time for our smartphone with one charge...
Like lets say if we could run Symbian in our Android phones ... how many days we could use them with one battery charge?
If when Symbian was alive we had 1000+/- mAh batteries and we could use our phone few days, now we have 4000+ mAh ... let's dream for a second that we have symbian installed, we could use our current smartphones for at least a week!? Or I'm wrong?
So we really can't start something new?
If nobody want to do it ... then teach me how I can boot an android phone into something made from scratch and I will do it...
I need sombody to explain some basic things about android like what I should keep and from what point I can start to make a new OS ... but not android based ...
Why to want to re-invent the wheel? Several mobile OS already exist:
13 Open Source Mobile OS Alternatives To Android in 2021
Android is not the only option for your smartphones. Meet some open-source Linux based Android alternatives for your mobile phone.
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