MOTODEV Studio for Linux Preview

[florian]

Hello,

how do I use a real handset instead of the emulator for application testing and debugging?

Greetings

Florian

[EricC]

Hi Florian,

At this time, the build and debug functions are limited to the x86 emulator. That is one of the reasons that the software is released as a preview.  Existing Motorola Linux handsets cannot be used as a target with these tools.  When phones are available with the version of Linux that MOTODEV Studio recognizes, we will release the full toolset, including the ARM compiler and device debugger.

Thanks for reviewing the tools. If you have suggestions on how we can make the final tools more useful for your daily development tasks, please let me know.

Regards

Eric

[Biji]

I think when web ui and native apps can run under real handset will encourage more people using devtool.. you know...... i want to show off to my friends ^^

thanks

[maharz]

yes, i agree, i hope we can test it on the real device soon.

this is to encourage ppl to buy motorola motomagx platform handsets.

Message Edited by maharz on 08-25-2008 11:51 PM

[florian]

Hello,

the key problem is that you can't build a developer community based on tools that are not able to build binaries for the target devices. Using real hardware makes things interesting for software devlopers. 

Since there are quite a lot MOTOMAGX devices around already it would be useful to support these. Just look at S60 - it has an incredibly large developer community. 

Basically the SDK is quite nice - even for people not familiar with Eclipse it is quite easy to use and the installation on Ubunty 8.04 was painless after switching to SUN Java. Maybe I manage to write a short review... 

Greetings

Florian

[vijushimpi]

No man, SDK for Real Existing Handsets can only

encourage for developers to write applications, because in India  the upcoming Smart Phone Motorola sells it to even half rate of present cost price of ROKR Z6, I'm not going to buy it.

[Robin]

Hi Florian,

Thanks for your feedback and support to Motorola first of all.

I answered a similar question in thread of [Problem while linking HelloWorld]. For your convenience, I copied here.

Regards,

Robin

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Thank you for your recent posting.

I regret to inform you that you can not install or run a native Linux application on any existing MOTOMAGX / Linux-based handsets for the following reasons.

• There are differences in the APIs available on existing handsets compared with those supplied in MOTODEV Studio for Linux Preview.

• Due to architectural and functional limitations, native applications cannot be deployed on previously shipped MOTOMAGX / Linux-based devices .

We, at Motorola are very excited with the strong interest among you, our developer community, to create native applications for devices. We will open this capability to all developers in the near future. As a first step, we released this preview version of MOTODEV Studio for Linux to provide you the opportunity to explore and experiment. We will announce new handsets which will support native Linux applications development using MOTODEV Studio for Linux in the future.

Thank you again for your interest in developing native Linux applications on Motorola products.

This is just the beginning so please be patient while we continue to create an accessible compelling native environment on our Linux devices for our developer community.

With regards,

Robin