Notice
This is a release based on an old version of IMDbPY; it should still works, but actually I don't have any way to test it.Hopefully one day I'll be able to work again on IMDbPY on mobile devices, especially if others developers will help.
IMDbPY on mobile systems
You can use IMDbPY on systems with very limited storage space, bandwidth and CPU power, like PDA, hand-held devices and mobile phones.
The main document to read, to install and use IMDbPY on a mobile device is README.mobile.txt.
Symbian GUI
A GUI for Symbian phones is under development; since there are still many things to do and tests, if you are interested please subscribe the mailing list.
| Program | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|
| imdbpysy.sis 1.0 installer (2008-03-11) | Davide Alberani | GUI for Symbian phones; released under the GPL license. |
| imdbpysy.zip 1.0 | Davide Alberani | Source code of the .sis package; it contains the compiled cutils.pyd module. |
| cutils.zip 1.0 | Davide Alberani | The project used to compile the cutils.c module. |
Known issues
By default, the "mobile" data access system is used; it means that the data are fetched from the imdb.com web site. From my tests with the emulator, it should work, but for some unknown reason it crashes the interpreter, running on my nokia n70.
It's possible to use the local data access system (which, unfortunately, was removed since IMDbPY 4.2), provided that you copy the data on your phone/memory card. Unfortunately without the cutils module it will be too slow to be usable, especially for searches (you can still directly get movie/person/character information in a reasonable time, using the right imdbID); the modules is compiled (for PYS60 2nd edition FP 3) and included in the distribution, but for some reason it works on my emulator but crashes in my phone. If it happens to you, or the "Settings" menu doesn't show up, try renaming the imdb/parser/common/CUTILS.PYD file.
As you can imagine, the "sql" data access system is not working, since there is no SQLObject for Symbian - not to talk about MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite - available.
A configuration file is written in C:/imdbpy.cfg.
The code is here, and I think not much is still required to make it really usable, but my skills as a developer for symbian/mobile phones are really limited, so any help will be greatly appreciated!
