Idea is to creat (very) simple application that can mark your position on a map using GPS. In future you could sync other peoples position to your phone (Not implementing in this session).
15.00-18.00: Making development tools to work. Configuring development tools and phone to accept python.
18.00-00.00: Coding basic GPS functions.
00.00-03.00: uploading image file
03.00-08.00: zzZZzzz
08.00-10.30: implementing drawing primitives (dropped)
10.30-13.59: Implementing location warning and tweaking GPS coordinate conversion
13.59-14.00: Wrinting wiki and slides ;)
Code was done using pymaemo (python designed for maemo that uses gtk for layout management). GPS coordinate conversion to distance was done using formula found from the web.
Priorities: First priority (1), implemented if enough time (2)
Feature | Priority | Status |
---|---|---|
GUI | 1 | Done |
GPS coordinates | 1 | Done |
Map | 1 | Done |
Converting GPS coordinates to metric format | 1 | Done |
Warning of closing boss | 1 | Done |
Making a marker to map based on coordinates | 1 | Dropped |
User triggered manual refresh | 2 | Dropped |
Reading other devices GPS coordinates | 2 | will not be implemented at on codecamp |
● Maemo didn't have good python libraries to draw image layers.
● Layout was quite tricky to make (still not what we wanted).
● GPS was hard to debug because connetions to satellites can't be made inside. Maemo Xephyr couldn't emulate GPS easily.
● Scratchbox wasn't all too useful. It broke down once and Xephyr can't be rebooted without using command-line.
● Python hugely fastened development.