The document discusses considerations for porting applications to the Maemo platform. Some key points are: Graphical applications require reworking the UI to account for the smaller screen size and different input methods compared to desktop. Hardware limitations like screen size, memory, and CPU power must also be accommodated. The Maemo platform provides widgets to help applications look native, and features like power management and network change callbacks that desktops lack. Properly utilizing these can improve the user experience given the device constraints. An example application, Xournal, was modified to take advantage of the touchscreen's pressure sensitivity for drawing and hide/show its toolbar based on stylus vs finger input.

1. On porting application to the Maemo platform Aniello Del Sorbo University of Salerno, Italy