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It was back in December when we saw the pre-alpha Maemo 5 SDK being released. The platform is advancing, and now we have the full Alpha version released, bringing a whole new finger-friendly UI framework among other things.
Although “Alpha” usually stands for “adventurous developers, only,” Maemo team says the new release is a good basis to get started with Maemo 5 application development instead of waiting for the forthcoming beta release.
As for the APIs included in the Maemo 5 Alpha SDK, there are:
- Location API – for developing location-aware applications.
- City Information – for obtaining information about cities, including city name, country name and country code.
- Time management – an interface for handling time change notifications and collect relevant time and time zone information.
- Vibra service – for triggering and controlling vibrations.
- Device orientation – respond to changes in orientation and discover current orientation.
Other APIs available in Maemo 4 have been improved and are now available in this SDK release including: Alarm, Address book Access and Data notifications, Account, Battery and Logging development interfaces… More information is available in the official release notes.
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
