Starting dev on Kindle

JPDeckers · 09-18-2009, 09:18 AM

Got myself a Kindle 2, am root through dropbear.
Am pretty good on cli-level, certified perl hacker, know my way around various linux distributions, C & Java, however, am not blessed with any experience on X or cross-compiling.

Already found the scratchbox toolchain (tnx cdisou), will be diving into this after this weekend, but, anybody know of any manuals/hello world/xdaliclock (w/ code) alike examples in this ? Would help me quite a lot in getting up to speed...

My first project would btw. be a book-management interface, so I can move books in & out my "bookshelf" onto my Kindle main screen (while the bookshelf itself is also on Kindle). I hate having 20 books on the first two screens. I want to bring all w/ me, but only see the few I'm reading.

DairyKnight · 09-21-2009, 03:22 AM

Someone has already ported QT embedded. See this:
http://www.hi-pda.com/forum/viewthre...extra=page%3D1

Seems he's developed a display driver for auto-refreshing the DX screen.

09-18-2009, 09:18 AM	#1
JPDeckers Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Netherlands Device: Kindle 2 US & K3 WiFi	Starting dev on Kindle Got myself a Kindle 2, am root through dropbear. Am pretty good on cli-level, certified perl hacker, know my way around various linux distributions, C & Java, however, am not blessed with any experience on X or cross-compiling. Already found the scratchbox toolchain (tnx cdisou), will be diving into this after this weekend, but, anybody know of any manuals/hello world/xdaliclock (w/ code) alike examples in this ? Would help me quite a lot in getting up to speed... My first project would btw. be a book-management interface, so I can move books in & out my "bookshelf" onto my Kindle main screen (while the bookshelf itself is also on Kindle). I hate having 20 books on the first two screens. I want to bring all w/ me, but only see the few I'm reading.

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09-21-2009, 03:22 AM	#2
DairyKnight Connoisseur Posts: 63 Karma: 2600 Join Date: Oct 2008 Device: PRS-505	Someone has already ported QT embedded. See this: http://www.hi-pda.com/forum/viewthre...extra=page%3D1 Seems he's developed a display driver for auto-refreshing the DX screen.

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