What is the best way to start developing Windows Mobile Professional applications in Python? Is there a reasonable SDK including an emulator? Is it even possible without doing excessive amount of underlaying Windows API calls for UI for instance?
Missing Link: http://pythonce.sourceforge.net/
S.Lott
2009-10-05 11:04:40
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If the IronPython and .Net Compact Framework teams work together, Visual Studio may one day support Python for Windows Mobile development out-of-the-box. Unfortunately, this feature request has been sitting on their issue tracker for ages...
palm3D
2008-09-13 10:29:26
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(I used to write customer apps for Windows Mobile.)
Forget about python. Even if it's technically possible:
- your app will be big (you'll have to bundle the whole python runtime with your app)
- your app will use lots of memory (python is a memory hog, relative to C/C++)
- your app will be slow
- you wont find any documentation or discussion groups to help you when you (inevitably) encounter problems
Go with C/C++ (or C#). Visual Studio 2005/2008 have decent tools for those (SDK for winmo built-in, debugging on the emulator or device connected through USB), the best documentation is for those technologies plus there are active forums/discussion groups/mailing lists where you can ask for help.
Krzysztof Kowalczyk
2008-09-13 22:30:01
also for people that haven't done much/any mobile/embedded development... they need to remeber that speed and memory are big issues. You are not working on a multi-GHz system that has several GB of RAM. Most mobiles may have upwards of 400MHz processes and maybe 256MB of RAM.
Matthew Whited
2009-11-07 14:00:12
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Just found this: http://ejr44.blogspot.com/2008/05/python-for-windows-mobile-cab.html
Looks like a complete set of .CAB files to provide Python on Windows Mobile.
S.Lott
2009-10-05 11:07:39