Professional Ubuntu Mobile Development

360 Pages·2009·4.782 MB·English

by  Ian Lawrence, Rodrigo Cesar Lopes Belem

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Professional Ubuntu® Mobile Development
Introduction xxv
Chapter 1: Mobile Linux ..................................................................................1
Chapter 2: The Development Environment .....................................................11
Chapter 3: Power Management .....................................................................35
Chapter 4: Application Development .............................................................53
Chapter 5: Application Packaging ...............................................................105
Chapter 6: Application Selection .................................................................129
Chapter 7: Theming ....................................................................................147
Chapter 8: Kernel Fine-Tuning .....................................................................165
Chapter 9: Testing and Usability ..................................................................187
Chapter 10: Tips and Tricks ........................................................................207
Chapter 11: Putting It All Together ..............................................................219
Chapter 12: Mobile Directions ....................................................................243
Chapter 13: Common Problems and Possible Solutions ................................257
Appendix A: Ubuntu’s Right ARM ................................................................265
Appendix B: Git Usage ................................................................................277
Appendix C: Hosting Your Project on Launchpad ..........................................287
Appendix D: Desktop Power Applet Code .....................................................291
Appendix E: D-Bus: An Overview ..................................................................297
Index .........................................................................................................307
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Rodrigo Cesar Lopes Belem
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About the Authors
Ian Robert Lawrence is a Scrum Master at the Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia. He is a founding member
of both the Ubuntu Brazil and Debian Amazonas communities and he is studying for an MBA in The
Strategic Management of Technology Innovation at UNICAMP.
Rodrigo Cesar Lopes Belem is a free software developer and advocate who has contributed to many
open source projects such as Enlightenment and Ubuntu. He has been working with free software since
2001 and currently works as a software developer at the Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia. He is studying
for a Computer Science degree at the Federal University of Amazonas and holds an LPIC Level 2
certificate.
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