Biosensor Array Mobile Device Interface
This page is part of the Biosensor Array Project
Serial Link
- Bluetooth
UI Options
- Processing: good for computer (smartphone?)
- QML: good for computer & Qt-capable smartphones (android & iphone?)
- Titanium Appcelerator: cross-platform mobile (bb/andriod/iphone) & desktop (mac/pc/linux)
Appcelerator Titanium
- Open source & free
- Cross Platform SDK
- Generates native apps for Android, iPhone, Blackberry
- Website: http://www.appcelerator.com/
- Status: Drew has some exposure prior to this project and will investigate further
Python + Qt
- Targets: PC, Nokia N900, other meego/maemo devices, other Qt-capable phones/tablets
- Status: Bill has been setting up dev environment & Drew plans to as well
- Note: Titanium covers the bulk of smartphone users, but Drew & Bill have N900s so also want to pursue this option to some extent
QML
Drew saw Rajesh Lal, Nokia Meego Engineer, give a talk at Flourish on QML & Javascript for building UIs.
"Fun with QML & Javascript" http://www.slideshare.net/rajeshlal/fun-with-qml-javascript-on-meego
I know for our Biosesnor Array we will need to have some type of interface to display data on a computer and hopefully smartphone. The default computer visualization interface for Arduino projects tends to be Processing. I think that would work well on a full blown computer but not sure about smartphones. \
After talking with Rajesh, QML may be a nice alternative as it looks to be a easy way to create an app that runs both on a desktop and smartphones with Qt support. I'll have to see if there is any accessibility for iPhone & Android.
Development Environment References
Maemo N900 Python
- Maemo development
- Maemo 5 developer guide
- N900 developer tutorial
- PyMaemo
- PyMaemo UI tutorial
- PySide
- #pymaemo on chat.freenode.net
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Appcelator Titanium
- Cross Platform Mobile SDK
- Website: http://www.appcelerator.com/
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