В Птн, 29/10/2010 в 11:59 +0100, Al Johnson пишет: > > I also wonder if it's the first commercial phone(or not) that permitted > > the installation of native applications(I wonder if the app store for > > the iphone came before or after the openmoko) > > It missed that one by a long way. WinCE/WinMo handsets had native > applications > from the start. They were possible with Symbian too, but less common. >
I don't know about WinCE/WinMo, but once somewhere in 2006 i tried to build small app for my former Symbian phone... Ok, using gcc.exe and make.exe on Linux is special fun. But it turned out that you can use full abilities of your device until you get developer sertificate and/or sign your application. This is done to protect users from malware, but in the end seem you just can't just write big set of apps for your phone. So, vendor controlled which application you can install and which can't. In case of uncontrolled environment you'll just be able to copy commecial apps from root to other phone. Here is example how to 'sign' app for particular phone: http://www.gosymbian.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=757 http://www.simplysymbian.com/2007/12/18/how-to-symbian-sign-your-freeware-applications-so-you-can-install-stuff-like-rotateme/ My expierence with Symbian were one of reasons to buy Freerunner. Here i can run and compile anything without any troubles. Gennady _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
