On Sunday 28 November 2010 12:50 PM, Raja Subramanian wrote:
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Shrinivasan T<[email protected]> wrote:
Will the time spent on python with nokia symbian is worth?
In my opinion it's not worth spending any time on Symbian, let
alone PyS60.
+1. I've been messing around with Android for the past one year, and
it's been a rewarding experience. It's so good to see Android phones
popping up in friends/acquaintances hands and they declare "dude, I got
an Android phone!". Most of them, even non-techies have a fair bit of
idea that it's an "open source mobile OS from Google" (let's face it,
Google's brand name did feature in that buying decision too).
The phones are getting cheaper every 3 months or so, and you can do a
fair bit of Android programming without owning one, actually - it has
really good emulators (which you can try different screen sizes/aspect
ratios resolutions). I'm sure you saw Samsung Galaxy Tab ads in the TV
networks, so it's only going to get better.
There are some criticisms of Android of course - that it's not "true
foss" - the reason being Google not doing the framework development in
the open, and it does a "code drop" with every release. (Read this for
context:
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/06/froyo-code-drop.html).
But Google afaik claims they need that time to negotiate features and
technology issues with various partners in the OHA
(http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/). On which I'm willing to give
Google a pass, because the framework and the tool chain is so awesome.
Also because despite of existence of frameworks like OpenMoko (and the
more recent Meego/Moblin), Google has been the only company that had
enough momentum (money and open source chops) to bring a foss
alternative to mass-produced phones.
Not to mention the really great modding community out there - I have a
fairly old phone, the G1/ADP1 which in Android terms is almost over the
hill (HTC stopped releasing official updates after 1.6). But thanks to
Cyanogen (http://www.cyanogenmod.com/) I run the latest Froyo (2.2). Of
course, there's also the veritable XDA-Developers who keep doing awesome
work in this front. So I suggest you give Android a shot - even if you
don't have a phone - and you just might end up liking it. As for Python,
there's ASE (http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/) if you give
that a read, you'll see that it indeed has great support on Android.
Vamsee.
P.S: Sorry if I sounded like a Google fanboy - Android is one of the
reasons I still like the company - I've been pretty impressed with their
work so far. I've been tempted to try iOS toolset, but I really don't
like Apple's attitude towards 3rd party developers. And as for
Intel/Nokia's meego, it's an interesting OS for sure, but almost no
momentum when it comes to community (or variety of devices for that matter).
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