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We all love it: Screenshot time!

This is PhoneME running on an N800 with the Chinook/Maemo 4.0/OS 2008 distribution. Since the differences between Maemo's Chinook and Diablo distribution releases are minimal you should be able to use the same packages on both. More on that later.

And here we have the same app (= jalimo-swt-example) running on OpenMoko's Freerunner.

Needless to say that startup and runtime performance of PhoneME simply rock: The small SWT-based UI appears within 4 to 5 seconds on both devices.

If you have any of the two devices (or an N810) you can now install the JVM through Jalimo's repositories. Get them while they are hot. ;-)

Just before FOSDEM I have a nice batch of screenshots to show. What I am going to present today is a new Jalimo demo application which is available in binary form from the Maemo Jalimo repository (sourcecode is in SVN).

It makes use of SWT 3.4's ability to switch to fullscreen mode (and back). Since a convention for Maemo apps says that toggling fullscreen should be possible by pressing a certain hardware button, I added the neccessary listener as well. It works nicely. :-)

Last but not least while reading through through the Hildon documentation I learned that the environment provides its own file chooser dialog. Since I was fixing a bug in our SWT anyways I added support for this dialog as well.

The results can be seen here:

In related news:

Jalimo is actively contributing and committing stuff to OpenEmbedded now. One of the nice results is that other people start adding the packages into their distributions. Eg. OpenMoko now has GNU Classpath, Cacao, JamVM and SWT in their repositories. The same is going to happen for GPE and AFAIK Angstrom. Nice one!

For the Maemo packages which we provide on our own we lately switched from the manually and Scratchbox-built packages to the ones made by our OpenEmbedded-base autobuilder. For those who used the old repository for their N800/N810 device already I wrote a small migration guide.

And on a completely different topic: 

Richard is in Berlin today and does a talk about the philosophy and history of free software. With a little luck a friend and I can organise an interview with him. I spent half the night on getting some interesting background information. :-)