Open mobile software

There has been some talk about various Linux based standards and frameworks, and there are a few open software based phones that include applications and frameworks. Here we collect an overall summary of these, so we can figure out what we can leverage from elsewhere, what we need to build from scratch, and any dependencies. Please correct and extend the info on this wiki page.

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Base OS

Linux sourced from Gumstix, includes cross compiler and has Java support Gumstix Software

GSM device driver and libraries

libgsmc A sample GUI interface for a CLI is being finalized; and GUI support for Qtopia and GTK+ will follow and will include sample applications. libgsmc is hosted at sourceforge.net

EDGE device driver

basic slow IP over GSM

Wifi/Bluetooth/LCD/Touchscreen etc. device drivers

hopefully basic Linux support exists

Accelerometer, power management

More advanced things we may need to develop ourselves

Application frameworks

GTK+ or Qtopia open source release which does not include all the phone apps provided with the greenphone

OpenMoko homepage

doesn't yet have links to code, but they have some info at The LinuxToGo site

Phone calling application

Basic call management stuff, GUI to dial a number

Web browser

Qt has Opera support, Not sure how viable Firefox might be on Gumstix

Flash for Linux

Adobe has x86 version only, not sure about others

Address book application

Calendar application

Notes taking

Mobile oriented email client

MP3 player

Gumstix includes some audio player support.

GPS mapping

perhaps google maps mobile java version? Not sure how to feed it GPS coordinates, I think some versions of gmm do interface to GPS, but Java sandbox makes it hard. There is some discussion of GPS on the OpenMoko Software page