Submitted by Tanja Repo on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 10:33
Cybercom arranges a joined student forum, Cybercom Session: Qt Quick -Learning QML in one day, in ICT building in Turku16.11.2011 .
Cybercom Session is a great opportunity to learn Qt Quick in a one day. Cybercom Session is a quick course, which will cover Qt and QML basics in four hours. The event is open for all students and university staff members, who are involved with IT related studies. To support the learning of Qt and Qt Quick Cybercom announces a coding competition where the first prize is the latest and greatest Qt based Nokia N9 smartphone.
Submitted by Tanja Repo on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 10:50
Last year we had a successful developer event, Cybercom Developer Day, in Helsinki about Qt Quick and KDE Plasma, and this year we will have an interesting developer event at.... well we are not going reveal the location yet, however it will be a session, where our own specialists take the arena.
Few weeks ago we started an interesting collaboration demo project with Cybercom Sweden. They had a cool IVI demo when it comes to functionality, but it was missing a modern GUI. The old UI was Qt Widget based "Test UI" for testing functionality of a blueGO API, so it wasn't originally even designed for public demonstrations. Here is a screenshot of the old UI's Connect page to get a picture where we started:
We started the new UI from scratch, also meaning that we didn't have any UI design documents at that time and the spec was: follow the existing functionality from the old demo and focus on the graphics later. This meant that we didn't have any idea for example whether a button should display a text only, icon only or a text and icon both. In practice we didn't fine tune QML components too much beforehand, so what we did was a simple button which had a text and different behavior when pressing and releasing the button. Naturally it was emitting a signal on clicked. We used this approach for all custom QML elements we made. So, the interfaces for components were quite ok from the beginning and later we just added new a functionality there without breaking the old functionality.
Submitted by Tanja Repo on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 13:25
MeeGo or You Go? :)
Well actually we all go since Cybercom will attend the MeeGo Spring 2011 conference in San Francisco. One of our own developers is making huge effort by contributing in diverse sessions, so to get a head start to see what's Cybercom has to offer there, visit the session summary.
There will be more live blogging from the event so stay tuned to Cybercom Channel.
If you have read this blog before, you might have read the blog post about Parallax Media Desktop. We decided to make it the homescreen of a phone UI built on top of MeeGo. Actually, we didn't change the UI much. We added there a statusbar, notification area, dialer application and we made it to use little bit more gestures e.g. for switching between layers. Here's the video about running our Cybercom UX layer on top of MeeGo.
UPDATE: Here's the latest video where we run the same UI with better performance.
As you can see from the video, it's pretty much a prototype or a Proof-of-Concept quality, but the basic functionality for making and receiving phone calls is there. The homescreen supports four different orientations. Demo also suffers lack of graphics, but graphics is easy to update later.
As some of you might have noticed, a video called "Nokia N900 + MeeGo 1.1.80 + XBMC" was posted to the youtube in December 2010. At that time the XBMC was demonstrated only on N900 and also the video playback functionality was missing at that time. Some more work was done with the packaging and the compile process which is now fixed so that it is available for all the MeeGo 1.2 architectures, i.e., ia32, armv7el and armv7hl (hardfloat port).
In December 2010 there was no instructions published as the setup was very experimental and the compile had errors. However, now after a bit of more tuning and testing the installation of XBMC is quite stable so we felt that we should write the instructions for all the MeeGo community people how they could use this very nice HTPC application on their own devices running MeeGo.
NOTE:Before continuing it is recommended to read through the whole blog post before starting to download any MeeGo images.
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hey guys ... this version is superb.. and amazing.. how to get this version to my N900.. can u plz respond to this comment.. plzzzzzzzzzzzzz.. or can u plz mail if any updates abt this version...
Ecomnoies are in dire straits, but I can count on this!
Yup, that shloud defo do the trick!