Translation Maemo 5 App

[Kieron]

I'm making a basic translation app for Maemo 5 which will use an already webbased translation service and basically have that in a frame, with a search box and a few options.

Now I'm wondering, what would be the best way to go about this. I'm a bit of a noob, I did do the Hello World GTK+ thing in the SDK though and it looks pretty feasible. A bit confused on the whole GTK+/Hildon thing.

Any help appreciated, hope to complete this little project of mine. :)

[hopbeat]

In the context of I heard today about future of Maemo, I would say, go with Qt. It's nicely documented, and easy to use, I would say easier than GTK.

You can try python with this for rapid development or C++ if you would like to have more robust solution.
Still, it depends of your experience and what you have done before.

[danielwilms]

Hi,

if you are planning to develop your app for now and and future devices, you should consider Qt. It offers with QtCreator (http://qt.nokia.com/products/appdev/developer-tools/developer-tools#qt-tools-at-a) and QtDesigner (http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/designer-manual.html) two powerful tools to build the app and especially the UI part fairly simple. Besides the general Qt Documentation (http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/index.html), you find as well maemo-specific information (http://wiki.maemo.org/Qt4_Hildon) and some more infos (http://wiki.maemo.org/Developer_FAQ#Qt) in the developer FAQ (http://wiki.maemo.org/Developer_FAQ) section.

Cheers Daniel

[Kieron]

Hi,

if you are planning to develop your app for now and and future devices, you should consider Qt. It offers with QtCreator (http://qt.nokia.com/products/appdev/developer-tools/developer-tools#qt-tools-at-a) and QtDesigner (http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/designer-manual.html) two powerful tools to build the app and especially the UI part fairly simple. Besides the general Qt Documentation (http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/index.html), you find as well maemo-specific information (http://wiki.maemo.org/Qt4_Hildon) and some more infos (http://wiki.maemo.org/Developer_FAQ#Qt) in the developer FAQ (http://wiki.maemo.org/Developer_FAQ) section.

Cheers Daniel

Thank you very, very, very much!

And I was just about to give up!

I'll update this thread and let you know what happens.

Garage project 'WordReference'