MoSync Blog

Let me first introduce myself: my name is Romain Chalant and I am currently working on my Master degree's thesis at MoSync. As you may expect, I am going to tell you a bit more about my work here.

When the largest telecom operator in Australia sends its CTO to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to talk about application stores, the world is usually all ears. You can read a full report here. But am guessing you do not like reading full blown reports, you want concise relevant data...well then read on.

Basically what Dr Hugh Bradlow, CTO of Telstra, said was "that customer demand would force the company to support numerous app stores and handset operating systems (OS) regardless of the various industry initiatives to reduce fragmentation."

This year in Barcelona was fantastic, Developers everywhere on panels, as keynote speakers and an exhibition hall just for us Hall 7. They even gave away tickets for free to developers (tickets at MWC are ridiculous expensive).

I'm proud to anounce that MoSync 2.3 Beta has finally been released after some intense couple of months, with not much rest might I add . If you're like me, you don't have time for going through web pages and press releases to filter out what's actually in a new product release. So to make your life easier, this blog post will sum it up in an easly digestible format.

Enjoy the fourth and updated "Mobile World Congress 2010"-edition of the Developers' Guide to the Mobile Galaxy. It is a good read right from the horse's mouth and straightens out many high-level issues on mobile development.

Today is a good day at MoSync we got the news that we came all the way to the final at Mobile Premier Awards in Barcelona February 15, 2010!

Is there a better way to start of a blog post then using a title which is completely out of context? Probably, but this time it is not entirely out of context. Because the MoSync team are a union of evil geniuses all working together to improve the mobile world. Or something along that line...

So more interestingly, what have we been up to? On my own part, there isn't much new happening other then trying to stabilize the Moblin runtime during the next couple of weeks.

For the time being every one at MoSync AB is hard at work. We're getting closer and closer to the stable release which is scheduled for the middle of February and have a feature freeze at the end of this week. So I'd thought I' take a break from development and write more in depth about how MoSync really works.

MoSync is not one thing, it is a series of tools and support systems that let's you run the same code on many different mobile devices without having to worry about anything other then maybe screen size.

As you might know (or not know), MoSync has had Moblin v2 support for a while now. Unfortunately, I have been the only one that had access to it. But I am glad to announce that the next stable release which is to be released quite soon, is going to have support for Moblin v2 devices. The reason that it hadn't been released earlier was that I did not have a good way of creating Moblin packages (deb and rpm) on windows and my thought was that there has to be a simpler way to creating Linux packages on windows then writing code for it yourself.

Let me begin with introducing myself, my name is Ali Mosavian, I am Software Engineer at Mobile Sorcery and head of Linux platforms. I've been into software development seriously for around 11 years now and done pretty much everything in this field. I started out in QBasic and learnt to program by using the "online" (as in, in-editor) help. That was a wonderful language/tool, but the problem was that you couldn't actually create compiled executables. So when I discovered QuickBasic 4.5, which could actually compile code, all my programming problems were solved, or so I thought.