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Hildon is a user interface toolkit based on GTK+ that targets mobile devices. Hildon was originally developed by Nokia for the Maemo operating system that powered its Internet Tablet devices. | Hildon is a user interface toolkit based on GTK+ that targets mobile devices. Hildon was originally developed by Nokia for the Maemo operating system that powered its Internet Tablet devices. | ||
- | Because | + | Because Maemo version 5.0 (also known as Fremantle), Hildon widgets are specially designed to be finger-friendly, that is, easily used on touch-screen devices. Hildon is published under the LGPL license which gives you the right to develop free and open source, as well as commercial software with Hildon without being charged for licenses or royalties. |
Because Hildon is based on GTK, it offers an object-oriented API, although written in C. | Because Hildon is based on GTK, it offers an object-oriented API, although written in C. |
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