What new apps are being developed for the N900
 

There have been some great apps released for the N900 since the turn of the year, such as the FM radio, QRadio, the Mediabar etc, etc and I just wonder what else is being developed by the forums fantastic developers, we know AGMohammed let slip recently he is working on a new media player but I just wonder if any other developers would share there work with the forum?

Or is there somewhere we can look in the forum or reposities to see what is in the pipeline or us "end users"?

If it is not the done thing to ask such a question on the forum then just please ignnore my post!!

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This a good thread to see what being developed: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=33974

Edit: Wait that thread hasn't been touched since nov 10. lol

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myself and many others thought that the recently released rockbox deb port was a quantum leap, i noticed you hadnt mentioned it. worth checking out.

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http://thehandheldblog.com/2011/01/1...-qml-download/

http://thpmaemo.blogspot.com/2011/01...g-gpodder.html

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i alfoso read abot the new media player app i hope we can get a lick version to see and support the work he's doing; because we really need a new media player after intensive proyect die some time ago.

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So is it only 4 being developed or are all the developers keeping their plans a secret. If so how do they know more than one person is not working on developing the same app etc at the same time, and so duplicating the work??

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Keep in mind not all developers read this every day or if they do, they don't see every thread.

I've recently released a much more polished version of DialCentral and ejpi (and before that, Gonvert). I'm going to eventually do the same for my other apps but first I'm helping out on getting Omnom (Pac-man clone) ready for extras-testing and I need to package and test all of my apps on Meego. I'll wait and see where I'll go after that.

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Just in case you thought otherwise I was only joking when I said "just 4" as it clear from the forum there is a lot of development activity at the moment and I can only hope that remains so for a while yet, it could be the promised QT apps are now starting to arrive?

Anyway you and the rest of the developers please keep up the good work of end users like me.

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I'm going to release a RSS Feedreader application with some eye candy that I have written for the WeTab MeeGo tablet, just to show how easy it is for developers to target MeeGo and Maemo PR 1.3 at the same time. :)

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That sounds nice.
Maybe you can implement a desktop widget with some sort of horizontal layout and scroll text :9

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What would be useful here in TMO is a structured TMO RSS feed,
to go with the Maemo version of your Feedreader
but that's a different kettle of fish altogether...

Anyways - looking forward to your work ! :D:D

Re: What new apps are being developed for the N900
 

nothing! is being developed, only apps that makes your n900 more slower and more power hungry.

no real apps like chatting or community apps, or social apps, or ever!!

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Can you give examples, I mean which applications are power hungry.
Or contact the developers. This community is quite active and I think
every developer (me, for examples) is happy for any feedback.

Btw network apps like chatting and social network apps,
which are running all the time in the background will consume
more power, too.

nicolai

Re: What new apps are being developed for the N900
 

Please don't be a troll on the thread I started, at the moment there are more apps appearing for the N900 than at any time in the 12 months or so since I got the phone, we all know Nokia are no longer support the phone but the Community is doing a great job of replacing them.

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yes you are right, background apps eat alot of resource!
facebook chat and widget, skype, pidgin status,

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yes I admit, but what kind of apps apeared mostly?
all apps are just like tweaks to the phone and themes and stuff,
but no actual good social apps.

I own three gaming servers, and I would like to monitor them 24 hours,
see who is in my servers and whats their nicknames, how many players are in my servers, did my server stop responding? like that.
also I would like to monitor my game play status, my rank, k/d ratio
in BfBC2 or left4dead2 or shattered Horizon.
I would like to see it as a widget on my phone.
I love n900 because it has admin tools for my servers. but no actual apps that help you.
these kind of app we need.

I have Steam gaming account, also Xfire account, but no such app for n900 yet! although android already has them!

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Thank god for Drop box client for N900! helped me alot for uploading modes to my servers!!

why dont we have Frostwire app like android do! its the most amazing app for downloading mp3 and pictures and sharing with other your friends! thats the apps we are missing! social apps and sharing!

p.s dont tell me we have Frostiwire by runing java on n900! i already has it, but too damn slow and power hungry!!! no usable !

ok someone please do a Frostwire app specially for n900?
I like sharing with my friends MP3s!

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Hi guys,

Does anyone happen to have any info of apps like; whatsapp and cnectd for the n900? are there concrete plans to port these apps? and if so is there a time line for this?

Thanks

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well developers her will tend to make apps which suit their own needs, or an app which will help many others, if you want an app that will suit your need but help zero or few other people, then either code it yourself or else offer to pay for it. as for frostwire, it sucks, big time, there are much better ways to share files, already available on n900. there are already apps for social networking and for communication, and n900 will handle facebook etc almost as well as the pc will, so theres really no need for an app.
before you go asking for appps think how much time and effort developers need to put in to make it, and usually do so for free.

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Have you checked this thread out?

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=48722&page=2

It seems someboy's already got Frostwire working on the N900, noy sure if it what you are already referring to in your post.

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You seem to be the only user with this need, and you bring it up multiple times in *every* thread about apps.

Be happy you didn't have to pay for these, or use vulnerabilities in the phone OS software to be able to get privileges to install software not approved by the controller of your device.

I have no online gaming account ...

Have you looked at existing open-source clients/software for any of these online gaming communities? Can you suggest one to port? Have you tried asking positively (and describing in more detail how the existing Android apps work, or how you envisage an app working)?

If not, please just wait until something shows up on Ovi store, as it seems a community isn't for you ...

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There seems to be a lot of anti-app sentiment going on in this forum, maybe thats why developers aren't jumping on the bandwagon. The N900 is the only phone with Maemo5 but it is still one of the better selling phones. There should be more commercialization of the apps available, blame Nokia I guess.

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I don't see anymore applications needed apart from the social gaming applications like the windows phone has for xbox live, it already has everything else. Sure it's not in the same league as the application store but games wise thanks to emulators its set really, and with easy debian a lot more applications can be run...

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What sort of anti-app sentiment? i can't say I feel it, unless you're using app in an iPhoney sense of "trivial re-presentation of data from a website" to distinguish them from applications which actually do something like control the device in some new way or process data in some way...

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No I'm not talking about useless iphone apps, I'm referring to this thread and many other request threads where people are asking for an app and other people are trying to convince them it's not needed (ex. Frostwire). If developers see the large response against some requests they would be less likely to make an app for it. I see perfectly good ideas argued to death sometimes, it makes me disappointed in the community when it is held back. Maybe I'm dragging up the past but it's silly to argue against an app that someone else wants but it still shows up in nearly all request threads saying the app can't be made or shouldn't be. If there is a few people that want an app there is a good chance that the silent majority will want it, no need to talk the potential developer out of building it.

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The problem with Froswire would be the requirement of Java 1.6. I have not seen how the development have gone on that... might be available now. In other case it should pretty much just be to download and install the Debian package from their homepage. It is a big possibility that it would work. The ui might not though... But on the other hand there is always Transmission to install if you want to share torrents.

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Never haveing heard of Frostwire before this thread, I looked it up and looked at the threads talking about it hereabouts. I think part of the reason perople are negative about the idea is that many of those demanding an app on this thread are dooing just that: demanding. The sense of entitlement of something for nothing (not even a bit of effort) would put me off doing anything about the requests more than the people denigrating Firewire; I well uderstand the attitude in this post.

More generally, the nature of this forum is still reflective of linux roots, with people of a hackerish mentality even among us non-devs. Therefore, robust opinions on technologies and protocols, be they filesharing or any other, is to be expected. There's also a hint of disdain for people unwilling to either learn or help themselves; particularly those who don't take the effort to understand the issues behind what is legally possible and what isn't or who keep bleating the same old requests that the community are unable to do much about. This is more than outweighed by the willingness to help people who seem genuinely to be trying or, perhaps more importantly, who come up with interesting challenges.

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I understand how demanding would put off a developer but if one person is demanding there are likely many others who want it badly. I just wish the comments on this forum were always more likely to result in more/better apps for Maemo5. I look at Android and I'm jealous of their content because I can't give up the N900.

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Android has a massively larger user base and therefore a lot more developers.

Developers have a lot of incentive to create apps for Android, whether to make money by selling their app or to draw traffic to a website/service.

What the maemo community/developers have already accomplished is very impressive. Not least of which is easy debian!

I suspect that several people around here (myself included) have an n900 because they would rather choose from thousands applications/utilities available in the Debian repos than from the Android marketplace.

I'm glad to sacrifice the "app store" model so long as I can easily run emacs, vim, perl, python, git, etc. on my phone (ahem, pocket linux computer). With what other phone can you so easily script your own tools/apps right on the device?