Probably many of the readers of this blog have noticed that Nokia released a preview of UI Extensions for MObile aka Uiemo this week. In my opinion this is very interesting because Nokia has been developing two, very large, expensive UI frameworks and both of them are built on top of Qt. The development has been done at the same time also. Some time ago I wrote a blog article of “Maemo 6 and Concerns of the Community” where I referred couple of ongoing discussions in maemo.org. In that specific blog post I was guessing little bit how Orbit would probably work on top of Qt. I wasn’t so wrong after all:)
Now many of you readers will think that “Oh no… Now this guys is doing another Peek to XXX series of Uiemo”:) Don’t worry I won’t do that. I just don’t have time for doing such a large review at the moment. Instead I want to go through couple of things related on Uiemo. One interesting detail is that the following diagram from my previous post was not so far from the truth.
DirectUI vs. DirectUI
The only difference is that the underlying platform can be Symbian, Windows or Linux/Maemo. Yes, there is a support for Maemo also. Check Kypeli’s post from his blog where he built Uiemo for Maemo 5. Current version of Uiemo is not a cross platform though. It doesn’t support Mac (OS X) at the moment which would be nice to have at some point.