Documentation/Maemo 5 Developer Guide

The Maemo 5 Developer Guide strives to provide an overall picture of the maemo 5 platform for developers wishing to create applications for maemo devices. These devices run a Linux-based operating system on ARM architecture. The maemo SDK is currently provided natively for desktop Linux distributions such as Debian and Ubuntu.

This is still a draft version and does not cover all aspects of the platform yet. These pages will be updated as and when documentation is ready internally.

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INDEX

• Preface
• Development Environment
  • Software Development Kit
  • Programming Environments
  • PC Connectivity
  • Flasher-3.5
  • SDK Virtual Images
  • Eclipse integration
• Architecture
  • Architecture Changes Since Maemo 4
  • Top Level Architecture
  • Core
  • UI Framework
  • Multimedia
  • RTCOM
  • System Software
  • Connectivity
  • Data Management
  • Imaging and Sharing

• GNU Build System

• Hildon UI Guides from Forum Nokia
  • These guides deprecate HIG below
  • Master Layout Guide
  • Hildon 2.2 UI Style Guide
  • Hildon 2.2 Widget UI Specification
  • Maemo 5 Desktop Widget UI Guidelines
  • Web Design Guidelines for the Nokia N900

• Human Interface Guidelines (deprecated by Hildon UI Guides above)
  • Introduction
  • Usability Principles
  • Device Orientation
  • Windows
  • Notes and Banners
  • Dialogs
  • View Menu
  • Hildonizing an Interface
  • Controls
  • User Input
  • Icons
  • Reality Checks
  • GUI Design Template
  • Desktop Widget UI Guidelines

• Graphical UI Tutorial
  • Introduction
  • Getting Started
  • Windows and Dialogs
  • Menus
  • Toolbars
  • Navigation
  • Data Selection
  • Controls
  • Additions to GTK+
  • Utilities
• Application Development
  • Writing Desktop Widgets (Home and Status Menu)
  • Writing Control Panel Applets
  • Maemo Localization
  • MIME type mapping
  • LibOSSO library
  • Writing a new Maemo application

• DBus
  • D-Bus Basics
  • Using GLib Wrappers For D-Bus
  • Implementing and Using D-Bus Signals
  • Asynchronous Glib/D-Bus
  • D-Bus Server Design Issues
  • DBus in Freemantle
• Using Multimedia Components
  • Introduction
  • Getting Started with Multimedia
  • Media Application Framework (MAFW)
  • Camera API Usage
  • FM Transmitter API Usage
  • Using Games Start-up Screen
• Using Connectivity Components
  • Introduction
  • Maemo Connectivity
  • Implementing Custom Connection Managers
  • Using Location API
• Using Generic Platform Components
  • GnomeVFS File System
  • Application Preferences-Gconf
  • Using Backup Application
  • Extending Hildon Input Methods
  • Using HAL
  • Alarm Framework
  • Using Address Book API
• Using Data Sharing
  • Using "Share/Send Via" and Sharing Plug-ins
  • Clipboard Usage
• Packaging, Deploying and Distributing
  • Installing under opt and MyDocs
• Porting Software
  • Introduction
  • Redesigning From Maemo 4 to Maemo 5
  • Porting MaemoPad from Diablo to Fremantle
  • Migration to Hildon 2.2
  • Porting Existing GTK+2 Application to Maemo 5
  • Scaling Fixed-size Windows
  • Adapting UI Inputs for a limited keyboard
• Kernel and Debugging Guide
  • Introduction
  • Kernel Guide
  • Debugging Guide