On 11/28/2010 12:16 AM, Shrinivasan T wrote:
Friends.
I have a nokia 5233 mobile which as symbian os 5th edition.
http://croozeus.com
From the above site's instructions, I installed PyS60 and learning python
development for nokia symbian mobiles.
But, got some quick questions.
Will the time spent on python with nokia symbian is worth?
Depends on how you define 'worth'. Python is not a popular development language
for mobile phones. On symbian, PyS60 is pretty useful and allows access to most
of the OS features. This makes it a good choice for symbian. However, the API is
symbian specific and not transferable to other mobile/desktop OS. So, if you
just want to create symbian apps, PyS60 is a good choice (at least to to start
off with).
The recent Indian PyCon in bangalore had a very good talk on the introduction to
PyS60 by N. Seshadri[1]. Check the demo code and slides if you are interested.
Will the learning be useful in the advance nokia moble platforms like meago?
Not directly, Meego is a completely different platform and designed quite
differently from symbian. It not compatible with the Symbian API. However if you
are new to mobile development, it might indirectly be useful as a means to learn
from similarities and differences.
Will Python be useful for android or iphone development?
Although I've heard android has a scripting layer, I've also heard that python
on that is fairly unusable on it beyond the hello world type scripts (in terms
of speed). I have no clue about iphone.
hth,
cheers,
- steve
[1] http://in.pycon.org/2010/talks/34-python-on-mobile-phones
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