Alien Dalvik Will Let Android Apps Run On MeeGo & Maemo

A very promising press release hit my inbox today morning, the Myriad Group has announced Alien Dalvik, a solution that will let users take advantage of applications made for Android devices on their MeeGo smartphones. According to the press release, Alien Dalvik ‘enables the majority of Android applications to run unmodified, allowing application store owners to quickly kick start Android application store services by simply repackaging Android Package (APK) files’. The best part about the solution is that Alien Dalvik applications will appear as native and can be seamlessly installed on devices, as you can see from the demo video below, they appear just as any other native Maemo app would.  Myriad Alien Dalvik is slated to become commercially available later this year on the MeeGo platform with support for other platforms to be announced in the coming months

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Hildon UI elements in QML

I’ve been playing with PySide and QML this week (more on that soon), but here’s something that might be interesting to the Maemo community: Using the native Hildon look and feel of Maemo 5 in QML. This QML demo uses the current theme graphics of Hildon and provides QML components that can be used just like their Hildon counterparts, but inside QML UIs. This is not a complete library, just a test of what could be possible in case anyone wants to step up and create and maintain a Hildon library of QML components

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Mozilla Open Web App Prototype

I think this prototype of an open web app system from the folks at Mozilla is quite interesting. First thing to note is that it works currently on Android and iPhone devices even in the prototype version they have up.

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Sabotage and free software

Who knew that educating people in simple sabotage (defined as sabotage not requiring in-depth training or materials) could have so much in common with communicating free software values? I read the OSS Simple Sabotage Field Manual (pdf) which has been doing the rounds of management and security blogs recently, and one article on “motivating saboteurs” caught my eye enough to share: Personal Motives The ordinary citizen very probably has no immediate personal motive for committing simple sabotage

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Augmented Reality on the N900

finally I reached a stage where I could upload my small augmented reality app to extras-devel, so all those who asked for it can now play with it. But be aware that it is in extras-devel for a reason.

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GUPnP 0.13.4 & GUPnP AV 0.5.6 released!

GUPnP 0.13.4 released! Changes since 0.13.3: – GUPnPService should remove all handlers installed on the shared SoupServer instance when it is disposed. – Fixate subscription timeout to be 300s as per DLNA requirement (7.2.22.1). – Correct type of action argument of GUPnPService::action-invoked

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Nokia N900 PR 1.2 – odtwarzacz

Zmiany które zaszły w interfejsie odtwarzacza w Nokii N900 po aktualizacji do oprogramowania do wersji 1.2 OS Improvements and new features * Email accept or decline an event invitation in your inbox * Facebook IM chat * Video calling * Portrait browsing * Ovi Maps UI (still looks like no voice navigationbut well see!) * Customizable menu (if I remember right, the more icon no longer exists, and everything is in the primary menu which is nice!) * Search now available in the application manager MeeGo Support There is also some bad news guys, it looks like MeeGo will not officially be released for the N900, but Nokia will continue to provide updates for Maemo like this one.

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Nokia’s Explore and Share concept uses super fast, mystery wireless (Engadget)

The Nokia Research Center has another tech tease that gives us a glimpse into one of our many possible mobile computing futures. The so-called, Explore and Share concept starts by placing an N900 onto a “writer” that’s tethered to a PC at a retail store.

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From Maemo to MeeGo, now where do WE go?

This morning’s stunning announcement that Nokia’s Linux-based Maemo mobile operating system would merge with Intel’s Moblin to form MeeGo was met with a wild variety of reactions , none of them meek. Natural fear and anxiety from many of those with longstanding and deep roots into Maemo were countered by fist-pumping exuberance from those new to the ecosystem and encouraged by what possibilities this merger might portend.

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Maemo 6 (Harmattan) UI Screenshots

Nokia has published a demo application for N900 , available in extras-devel repository, that shows a preview of Maemo 6 (Harmattan) user interface. Here there are some screenshots of the demo: Demo application main window Question dialog Text entry dialog Progress indicator Information banner Event banner You can find more pictures in my Flickr album . Please note that installing this demo will also install Qt 4.6.2 on the N900 and about 52 Mb are required.

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