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Does anyone have experience with PyS60 mobile development


I am in the position of having to make a technology choice early in a project which is targetted at mobile phones. I saw that there is a python derivative for S60 and wondered whether anyone could share experiences, good and bad, and suggest appropriate IDE's and emulators.

Please don't tell me that I should be developing on Windows Mobile, I have already decided not to do that so will mark those answers down.


Solution

  • PyS60 -- its cool :)

    I worked quite a lot on PyS60 ver 1.3 FP2. It is a great language to port your apps on Symbian Mobiles and Powerful too. I did my Major project in PyS60, which was a GSM locator(its not the latest version) app for Symbian phones.

    There is also a very neat py2sis utility which converts your py apps to portabble sis apps that can be installed on any Sumbian phones. The ease of use of Python scripting laanguage and a good set of warapped APIs for Mobile functions just enables you to do anything very neatly and quickly.

    The latest Video and Camera APIs let you do neary everything that can be done with the phone. I'd suggest you few very good resources to start with

    1. Forum Nokia
    2. Nokia OpenSource Resource center
    3. A very good tutorial (for beginners)

    Just access these, download the Emulator, and TAKE OFF for a ride with PyS60. M sure you'll love it.

    P.S. : as the post is so old, I believe u must already be either loving it or finished off with it. But I just cudn't resist answering. :)