Mupe Writeup
A two day seminar on Mupe (pronounced Mup-e), an open source project from Nokia with the goal of circumvent all the present day headaches of mobile device development. If you have done any mobile development you know what i’m talking about: certificate and security issues, phone incompatibility, discrepancies between the emulator and the actual phone, specific phone resources issues, etc. The stuff that keeps you from doing the fun stuff, making your application and sharing it with as many people as possible. The promise of Mupe is that there is that there will be only one client that you install once and the Nokia signs and makes sure runs on several phone models (well probably only Nokia phone models). Then you code on the server and via your mobile device subscribe to application services that transfer the application logic and resources to the phone. The apps run in the Mupe sandbox. When you want to update the app, just update the server.
We got to play with it two days. It’s still very rough around the edges but has a lot of promise. I wanted to use it for thesis but that’s unlikely unless I have constant contact with the developers at Nokia. There are still nightly client/server builds. In summary, it’s defiantly a project to watch. It needs more documentation and a much larger user base to work out the bugs.
The seminar was run by Riku Suomel, a very knowledgeable and patient (very patient) member of the Nokia project team.
