I'm in the process of -trying- to create a custom firmware/operating system for my Kobo Glo HD completely based on Qt using KoboLauncher as my base.
While I'm doing that, I'm compiling some custom apps for it, getting them from various sources and making subtle modifications to their source code in order to make them more comfortable to use on the Kobo.
In this thread I will be uploading every app I think runs acceptably on an eink device. In order to install them, you just have to download the .zip file with the name of the app, extract it on your vlasovsoft folder, and add the text that I will put inside a quotes tag below every app to the vlasovsoft/applications.ini file. Its source code can be found inside the -src.zip files. Feel welcome to modify them and fix bugs. They can all be built with the last qt4.8 version for embedded devices.
I will update this thread everytime I get an additional app running.
These are the first three, all taken from the example apps that are built when you compile qt:
Scribble
Pros: You can specify the thickness and color of the line, and you can also clear the screen and draw over any image that you have saved on the device.
Cons: The line does not appear on the screen until you lift the finger. This is -as far as I can tell- a bug on the vlasovsoft Qt mouse driver, so it is probably hard to fix.
Calendar
Just a simple calendar widget. Looks better on landscape mode.
Light maps
An OpenStreetMap client. Needs Wi-Fi to work. I don't know why, but it fails on some of the oldest firmwares.
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Light maps = lightmaps.sh
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