API Documentation
From OpenAlchemy.org
Introduction
One can develop software at several levels: at the system software and device driver level at one end and applications at the other end. Due to the form factor of the Amida Simputer and its emphasis on writing as the input method, software development on the Amida itself is not very efficient. Thus, like for most handheld devices, the simplest approach is to develop applications on a desktop machine and then cross compile and move to the Amida. The Amida development platform is thus a complete environment on a standard Linux PC (Windows version of the development platform is not envisaged) using which any Amida application can be developed, tested and debugged before cross compiling to the Amida. The tool chain for this process is expectedly part of the software supplied with the platform. System level software can be developed by a cycle of coding on the PC, downloading and executing on the Amida or using a USB-Ethernet mounted NFS system
The following describes the details of the OpenAlchemy. It is expected that this section will grow as the community starts to port OpenAlchmey to multiple platforms and applications get developed for those platforms. At this time, it has a natural bias towards the Amida Simputer, it being the sole device on which OpenAlchemy runs at this time.
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