MeeGo Contest Finalists Get Ready to Submit 19 Articles on MeeGo Development

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Congratulations to all our finalists for our MeeGo article contest, and thank you for doing a great job on these abstracts. Each finalist has won an SSD drive and is now in the running a $2000 prize after submitting their complete article. We will have five $2000 winners, one for each entry category. Each finalist has until December 27th to get their article submitted to be judged for the big prize.

The abstracts from our finalists look pretty cool, with posts on user interface design for MeeGo, code samples for database management for embedded applications, and porting from Symbian. Here's a look at the 19 finalists for each of the 5 categories with 300 characters from their abstract entries. Wish them luck, root for your favorite, and if you are on the list get your final article in by December 27th to win!

Code Samples

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Name

Description

Developing and deploying a social application with Telepathy-Qt4 and QML easily

Dario Freddi

What is the most important feature of a mobile application these days? The answer is rather easy: be able to connect and integrate seamlessly with social services such as Facebook, Twitter, Jabber, etc.
The Meego platform provides all the necessary tools for developing such an app: QML, for easy and...

managing database in embedded application

vishnukumar t s

managing the embedded application becomes difficult when there is no proper management for database. Nowadays everything goes mobile for example mobile banking.
let me take case when the mobile banking is done at offline. i.e., transactions are going to connect with the server(user having a smart c...

Animating object along with curve in Qt

Kunal Parmar

QPainterPath can contain many different kind of shapes and we can draw all those shape using drawPath API of QPainter. But I used it to animate an object on curve path instead of just drawing, QPainterPath has some intresting API using which curve animation is quite easy.
To achieve this, I first cr...

Using Python to quickly create MeeGo applications with PySide and QML

Thomas Perl

This article describes how to write new Python GUI applications for MeeGo-based devices (MeeGo Handset UX, MeeGo Netbook UX) using Qt and QML as UI technologies. We will use PySide as the glue layer between Python and Qt, as it provides a very Pythonic interface to the Qt classes and also allows dev...

Graphics and UX

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Flashy games with QML

Riccardo Iaconelli

There is a big market to be exploited which consists of relatively simple but highly entertaining games. The web is full of popular examples, mostly written in Flash, of these things. With QML and Meego, there is the possibility of allowing a much nicer user experience, with extremely fast graphics ...

Modern mobile applications with Qt and QML

dmitry-rizshkov

In this article i will explain how to use Qt and QML to create modern, adaptive user interface for mobile devices.
Article parts:
- Getting started with Qt
- Our first "Hello world"
- Adding QML support
- Creating user interface with QML
- Qt and QML interaction
...

Mobile User Interface design - From and To Programmers/Developers

versesane

User Interface Design is by large a Designer forte. Umpteen no of book on the subject are written primarily from people coming from design background. In this article I put down a list of visual examples that show apps running on Meego (N900) and talk about what's right / wrong about them. The idea ...

How do I obtain a realistic scene when transforming elements in 3D space?

The One

To obtain a realistic scene when transforming elements in 3D space, you should 1) define perspective so that elements in the distance appear smaller, and 2) make sure that nested elements are not flattened onto a single plane. To define perspective, use the perspective CSS property; smaller values f...

Innovative App Design, Graphics implementaiton, Porting in Meego OS

CreativeAppLabs

Hi Meego,
Greetings from CreativeAppLabs!
We have developed an innovative app with design in care. Habits is a life changing app based on the scientifically proven principle that it takes a continuous chain of 21 days to create a new habit or replace an existing habit with a new one.The goal of Habi...

ArCom-IVI UX - Mobile Business Solution with IVI Components

Simon Bolek

ArCom-IVI UX - Mobile Business Solution with IVI Components

1. Introduction
In the era, where almost everyone has a multi-functional mobile phone with touch-screen, a laptop or netbook, companies consider how they can use this fact in order to speed up their business cases. This trend of increasing...

Innovative

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Name

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Citizen Journalism with Youtube-Direct for Meego

Niels Mayer

This article describes the architecture and design decisions porting the Youtube-Direct[1] handheld application for the Iphone[2]/Android[3] to Meego, using Qt Quick/QML for the UI, and additional C++ extensions for handling HD video capture, geotagging, and uploading to a youtube-direct enabled web...

Spacecraft Testing

LeoM

Testing is an important phase in the development of space equipment. Tests must not only show that the equipment functions correctly on ground; they must also give confidence that an equipment will survive the rigours of a launch and will operate correctly in the severe environment of space for the ...

smart media apps

zing0000

As mobile, tablet and TV platforms become more powerful, developers will want to take advantage of the latest semantic analysis techniques applied to video, images and sound. Meego provides a platform agnostic environment in which the significant effort in creating these capabilities can be made ava...

Haptics Player

atomhero

Haptics Player is an application that will provide the user with the ability to play various haptic effects according to a pre-defined gestures or
pre-defined events.the user can play "system theme" haptic effects , dynamic custom effects or even play a custom effect which is stored in a file
The ap...

Hybrid Qt applications with PySide and Django

lamikae

The attached article and the blog post describe a way to build applications using the Qt framework, making possible for both MeeGo and non-Qt clients to operate on local area network resources. HTML5 is used to provide the user interface, while portability and interoperability is considered to be an...

Porting to MeeGo

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Description

Porting Goals

The Game Creators

The article will cover how the award winning Windows game Goals was ported to MeeGo in less than a week. We touch on the origins of the title, Intel's help in solving early MeeGo issues and drill down into specific details of the porting process as they apply to making a Windows game work on MeeGo....

An Approach to porting a symbian application design to MeeGo

Aparna Nandyal

Porting a native S60 based Symbian application to MeeGo can be considered a 2 step process.
1. Porting the application to Qt/QtMobility - If the application is already Qt based a part of porting is done otherwise in most cases only parts of design of the original application is re-usable and code ne...

An Approach to porting a symbian application design to MeeGo

Aparna Nandyal

Porting a native S60 based Symbian application to MeeGo can be considered a 2 step process.
1. Porting the application to Qt/QtMobility - If the application is already Qt based a part of porting is done otherwise in most cases only parts of design of the original application is re-usable and code ne...

Touch and Gesture

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Name

Description

CarAdvisor

oren-shibi

Learn about Car Repair!
Got stuck with your car? Do you have any clue what is laying beneath your car hood? Dashboard warning lights are on?
We have the solution for you! A database of possible causes to any fault or any warning light you might be facing with your car. Learn more about the causes.
I...

Library - An App designed to implement all the touch and gesture of meego design framework

5dollarapps

For your reference, we have presented our app called library in the attached pdf. Our App is designed in such a way that it covers all the gestures and touches in the meego framework.
We would be very happy to deliver Meego apps for intel based Tablets and Netbooks.
We would be highly geared up, if ...
We are foun...

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vishnukumar t s's picture

when will they announce result ??
how to get ssd drive for being a finalist

The One's picture

hey!!! there are many ques. asked above for the contest result and ssd drive but no answer is coming..
i firmly request the to answer these ques..?

Bob Duffy (Intel)'s picture

Sorry for the delay. All valid entries above will get an SSD drive.. Final judging for each category is in process and we are soon to announce a contest winner. We thank everybody for their support in this contest. The work has been amazing.

Aparna Nandyal's picture

Hi, I am one of the finalists and have my mailing address incomplete with no area/city name. When I edit the article, the submission date is getting updated, is there a way I can edit my mailing address?

LeoM's picture

I am Manish Gupta, ( LeoM) one if the finalist in innovative category.
how and when i will receive the won SSD drive.
Do you need any postal details, please ask.
you can contact me at: manishdev.gupta@yahoo.com

LeoM's picture

hi everbody:)
i congrates to all 19 finalist....:) hope you get selected for top5.

all the best :)

Regards,
Manish Gupta

Bob Duffy (Intel)'s picture

Aparna, use the Private Message feature under my photo to send me your updated mailing info.

All, look for communication from us towards the end of January. We are judging our final winners and working on the logistics of getting out the SSDs and prizes. Thank you for your patience and thank you for providing your content. Also look for more MeeGo content, resources and support from us in February.

CreativeAppLabs's picture

Thanks for the update Bob.

Hal's picture

Hello All,

I am checking on the SSD drives.

Regards
Hal G.
Technical Support Team
Intel AppUp(SM) Developer Program
Intel AppUp(SM) center

atomhero's picture

The Same Entry was chosen Twice as a finalist,How Come...!!!!?

"An Approach to porting a symbian application design to MeeGo
Aparna Nandyal
Porting a native S60 based Symbian application to MeeGo can be considered a 2 step process.
1. Porting the application to Qt/QtMobility - If the application is already Qt based a part of porting is done otherwise in most cases only parts of design of the original application is re-usable and code ne...

"An Approach to porting a symbian application design to MeeGo
Aparna Nandyal
Porting a native S60 based Symbian application to MeeGo can be considered a 2 step process.
1. Porting the application to Qt/QtMobility - If the application is already Qt based a part of porting is done otherwise in most cases only parts of design of the original application is re-usable and code ne... "

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