Contents 1 MeeGo application development overview 2 Select your tool 2.1 MeeGo SDK overview 2.2 Web SDK overview 3 MeeGo websites

MeeGo application development overview

The MeeGo 1.1 release comes with a new toolset for application developers, supporting cross-platform development. These tools make it easy to enter the MeeGo application ecosystem, and are built, like MeeGo, on true open-source technologies.

The big news for application developers is that Qt Quick is now part of the MeeGo release. This new technology allows rapid application UI development based on QML and JavaScript. It is also easily extendable with C++ objects, allowing a clear separation between UI logic (QML/JavaScript), and backend logic (Qt/C++). Qt Quick is ideal for MeeGo application development because it is highly flexible, allowing a developer to easily modify a UI so that it delivers an optimal user experience on all MeeGo devices. There are many Qt Quick examples and tutorials available already, see here for the official tutorial.

The MeeGo SDK, based on Qt Creator, allows developers to create native applications for a range of devices (N900, Netbook, Aava), using both the Qt/C++ and Qt Quick frameworks. This SDK supports Qt 4.7 and MeeGo Touch Framework developers, and is packaged with Qt Quick development libraries. It also supports multiple toolchains, allowing compilation for both the x86 and ARM processor architectures. This means the same code base can be used for N900, Aava, and MeeGo Netbook devices.

MeeGo 1.1 also supports a Web Runtime (WRT) environment, which means developers can use web-based technologies (HTML/CSS/JavaScript) to create applications for MeeGo. It is also possible to embed WRT UIs into C++ applications using Qt wrapper objects like QWebView from the QtWebKit module.

With the MeeGo 1.1 Developer guide, a new set of tools, and the availability of technologies like WRT and Qt Quick, MeeGo application has become easier and more accessible for application developers.

The following sections explain how to select the right SDK for your development work.

Select your tool

The following sections present options for starting application development. Note that it is also possible to combine the technologies presented in this section in hybrid applications, with parts implemented in C++ and others in JavaScript.

The key choice is between the MeeGo SDK and the Web SDK. Both provide an IDE that can be used to contribute to MeeGo. The MeeGo SDK supports Qt Quick development, making it the tool of choice for most application development.

MeeGo SDK overview

MeeGo SDK is used to develop native applications with cross-platform compatibility.

The following table describes MeeGo SDK:

Name	Technologies	Intended users	Where to get started
MeeGo SDK	C/C++ (Windows, Linux)	Developers who want to create native applications and developers who want their application to be compatible with multiple mobile platforms, and developers who want to use Qt Quick.	Installation instructions for the MeeGo SDK for Linux are available <here>. Get MeeGo SDK for Windows <here>. For more information on developing with MeeGo SDK, read this.

MeeGo SDK includes the following tools and components:

• Qt Creator, the integrated development environment (IDE).
  • MADDE for easy cross-platform development.
• simulator for running and testing user interaction, as well as the functionality of applications that use Qt Mobility 1.0 and Qt 4.7 APIs quickly.
• emulators for handset and netbook running MeeGo applications on an environment practically identical to the device. Emulator not only provides the platform system but also emulates device hardware.

Web SDK overview

Web SDK is used to develop web-based applications. Windows developers of web-based content can use the Web SDK. Later, the same will become possible for Linux developers.

The following table describes Web SDK:

Name	Technologies	Intended users	Where to get started
Web SDK	JavaScript, HTML, CSS (Windows)	Developers who want to create web-centric applications and combine web services with device data and are interested in HTML/JavaScript development.	MeeGo SDK with WRT.

MeeGo websites

The MeeGo project has many different websites providing information to people interested in the project, such as developers, translators, and users.

For general information, go to:

• Official site for the MeeGo project contains news and information related to the MeeGo platform including, for instance, governance, community sites, events, devices, and platform images.
• developer.meego.com Official application developer support site contains information specific to application developers such as guides, API references, events, tutorial, application development guidelines and otherapplication developer material.
• MeeGo wiki contains a wide range of information from both official and unofficial sources related to MeeGo, including working groups minutes, tasks, guides, and a lot of other useful material.
• MeeGo Forum enables users, developers and anybody interested in MeeGo to discuss about the MeeGo project and related issues.

For additional information on application development work, go to:

• Central location for bug reporting which is also used as a simple task reporting tool.
• apidocs.meego.com Code-generated documentation for some of the MeeGo APIs.
• meego.transifix.org Central site for localization projects.
• crashdb.meego.com Site for crash reports from MeeGo users.

Finally, MeeGo git repository contains the MeeGo platform source code.