N9Apps: Pocket Piglet for MeeGo/Nokia N9
Oleg, a popular Symbian developer has created an app for MeeGo/Nokia N9. It is called Pocket Piglet, a children’s app that is also available for Symbian.
I asked him about his thoughts on developing N9 apps and the difference to making Symbian and Oleg says not much.
” I develop all my modern apps using Qt Quick, so app can run both on Symbian^3 and Meego almost without additional efforts. N9 is still requires some quirks (especially with old firmware), but it doesn’t matter much really. S60, however, is a totally different thing.”
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- Jay
Pocket Piglet
Price: £1.50
Developer Blurb
PocketPiglet is a cute 3D animated piglet who lives inside your phone. Play mini-games with him to keep him happy. Stroke your piglet’s tummy to make him laugh. Watch several funny animations with your little friend in the title role. More mini-games and animations will be available soon via a free upgrade!
Oleg’s Story
which you need to take care of. He becomes sad when he wants to eat or
take a bath, so you will need to play corresponding mini-game to
entertain him. Also there are several funny animations that you can
see when the mini-game ends, or you can start them directly (for
example, by stroking the piglet’s tummy or by pressing corresponding
button).During the development of this app, I focused primarily on
high-quality animations and mini-games. This app is still in
development, new art is also in development for new animations and
mini-games, so free updates will be available in the near future with
all this stuff.
My 5-year-old daughter is the chief beta tester of this app, and shereally love it. But it would be a mistake to think that this app is
intended solely for children, because personally I still can’t win
“Feed the Piglet” game at the highest difficulty level, and “Wash the
Piglet” game also requires some concentration after some time… New
min-games will be also capable both for children and adults.
This app is available both for Symbian and Meego, so I’m sending you
Meego version, and some screenshots.
With best regards, Oleg.
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Jay said that I didn’t say much regarding difference in development for Symbian and Meego, but there is really almost no difference, if you do not develop something OS-specific (app that should work in background, for example). But I’ll be happy to answer specific questions in more detail, if you’re interested
I hope you did use Disable/enable Swipe in that app. small kids usually swipe game off as they do not understand how the phone works.
No, I didn’t disabled it yet, because I didn’t received any complaints regarding this from my small beta tester
However, this may be because she is quite familiar with my N9… If there will be any complaints regarding this, I’ll think about disabling it.
Well that been issue with my N9 as have some cousins that are between 2-4 years.
Depends of the game usually that how much you need to move around your finger and swipe inside the game.
Even I have problem with that sometimes that whole game screen starts to slide but I can abort that but small kids that only sometimes touch the phone it’s issue.
OK, in the next version I’ll look for a place for some button that will deal with screen.allowSwipe property… I think that swipe shouldn’t be disabled all the time, but only if user wants this.
Yes. Some games not many of them use it with the game menu. When you are in menu/pause swipe is enabled. When playing the game it’s disabled.
I would like that in most of adults games too. It’s really annoying in fast actions games if it’s not disabled during the game play.
In this game there is no any pause/menu screen. For now mini-games are automatically paused when you send app to background, and resumed when it is returned to foreground (and in case of “Feed the Piglet” game current level is restarted as well, because you’ll almost certainly forget the recipe while answering the phone call, for example).
I’m interested in application developing on Meego, but I have no idea where to begin. I have a little background in Java. Would you suggest where should I start?
If you have no experience in Meego development, then probably you should start with some simple application idea. First, just download and install Qt SDK. Then try to build and run application examples, that came with Qt SDK, on your Meego device. Then try to add some new functionality to these examples, and then try to implement your simple idea based on the received knowledge. Then gradually implement more and more complex ideas, and so on
Thanks! I will try that.
Hi Oleg. Sorry for the confusion. When I said that you said “not much” I meant that there was “not much difference” as opposed to you not physically saying a lot.
Sorry for misunderstanding
Im gonna download it and test it
Thank-you for allowing another Maemo6x app up on MNB.
Hopefully they’ll become a bit more frequent than they have been.
Yeah.. but being a Muslim, I find pigs are rather repulsive and not download the app. Perhaps the developer would like to use other cutesy animal in another version of the game. Thanks..
“Yeah.. but being a Muslim, I find pigs are rather repulsive and not download the app.”
Why are you responding to me?
haha.. Sorry.. I’m juz agreeing with u saying more Meego Harmattan apps should allowed to be showcased on MNB.. Cheers..
I have some ideas regarding another animals, so it is very likely that I’ll make something like this but with another animal.
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BTW, this app is also available for Symbian as well.
@Oleg
hi oleg, can you make an app that is same with openVPN like on android.
Me as a symbian user is in dire not having such an apps. I know that requesting is so much. But there is no available openVPN application for Symbian^3 users.
Thanks in advance. And willing to pay for the apps when it get’s to Nokia Store.
I’ll think about it.
Looks cute, why no video with the review?
English isn’t my native language, so my pronounce is terrible. And Jay said that his N9 was discharged at that moment, so so that he couldn’t record the video itself.
My N9′s battery was dead and I asked Oleg if he would have wanted to wait or have it posted sans video.
I have another N9 app recorded yesterday. I’m not able to do as many as I like because they take so much time to process and upload.