running google mobile applications?

[Christian Rüb]

> Hello,
> 
> I'd like to run the gmail java application in my moko. Has anybody tried
> that?
> 
> I couldn't download the application from the freerunner itself ( woosh,
> midori and dillo2 all failed) so I found this link and downloaded the .jar
> with wget:
> 
> wget http://m.google.com/app/v2.0.6/L1/gmail-g.jar
> 
> I don't know much about java but after reading this
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Java#Status_on_Openmoko I figured out I needed
> to install a java ME, so I added the jailmo repositories as explaned here
> https://wiki.evolvis.org/jalimo/index.php/Packages#OpenMoko and then
> installed phoneME like this:
> 
> opkg -force-depends install phoneme-advanced-foundation
> 
> but when I try to run the application I get the following errors:
> 
> $ cvm -jar gmail-g.jar
> -jar: Could not find Main-Class manifest attribute
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Another possibility would be to run the new web application "for android and
> iPhone", but is there any browser for moko that supports HTML5 or gears?
> 
> http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-version-of-gmail-mobile-for-iphone.html
> http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/04/gmail-gets-new-engine-for-iphone-and.html
> 
> I'm using SHR testing.
> 
> Thanks,
> Francesc
> 

Hi,

good luck for getting the java stuff working. What I did to use e.g. gmail and google calendar on my Freerunner is to open the following site using minimo [1] (discontinued, unofrtunately):
http://m.google.com/?dc=gorganic

Cheers,
 Christian

[1] a, http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Minimo 
[1] b, http://www.opkg.org/package_99.html