Every Flavour Beans

Maemo SDK Appliance 0.4 for VMWare was released a few hours ago. This is the quickest way to get started with developing applications for the Maemo platform[Nokia N770/N800/N810 Internet tablets]. It is easy to setup(just boot-up the image in VMWare player] and all the necessary tools (and documentation!) are integrated nicely into a custom environment.

More details about the announcement can be found on Marcelo’s blog.

This release is loaded with a lot of goodies: Maemo 4.0 (Chinook) final and Maemo 3.2 (Bora) with Nokia Binaries Installer, PyMaemo packages, Vala compiler and its Hildon bindings for Chinook, Maemomm libraries, EVAS (Bora and Chinook, but i386 only), qemu-arm-eabi used as default cpu transparency method, Eclipse with ESbox plugin, and Firefox has now a lot of bookmarks for reference material. There are code samples for all the libraries and development packages cited above.

Already a user of Maemo SDK VMWare Appliance? You can read the complete list of changes from the previous version or Marcelo also provides a summary of the changes on his blog post:

* Scratchbox installed from official Debian Repository.
* Maemo 4.0 (Chinook) release.
* Maemo 3.2 (Bora) (the last release was using 3.1)
* Added a lot of bookmarks in Firefox for reference material.
* Maemomm (C++ bindings) added, with code samples.
* Eclipse 3.3.1.1 with CDT 4.0.1 and ESbox 1.2.0 plugins.

Preferred way to download it is by using the torrent file. You can also download using the direct links provided on its poject homepage. Lot of information about the release is available from the README document.

And finally, watch the video showing a sample session of how to use Eclipse + ESBox plugin to create Maemo projects:

Expect beginner-friendly tutorial(s) on how to get the best out of Maemo SDK VMWare appliance in the near future.

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