(via Forum Nokia) - The visual style of a Web Runtime widget can make or break the success of the app. The Widget Design Tutorial guides designers through the visual styling of a Web Runtime widget using XHTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). The widget uses the COLOURlovers.com web API, and allows users to search for and view popular colours, palettes, and patterns.
he Hue widget described in this tutorial is specifically designed and optimised for the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic device but can be used with all S60 5th Edition Devices. You can download a copy of the widget from the Forum Nokia website.
(via Alessandro) - The Forum Nokia Online Flash Lite Packager is back LIVE! This is a great news for Flash mobile developers since it proves that Nokia's interest for Flash technologies is still high.
The Forum Nokia Online Flash Lite Packager provides Flash developers with a simple and convenient way to package Flash Lite applications into SIS files for installation on Nokia S60 devices. By packaging Flash Lite content in this way, the application is installed as though it is a native Symbian application. The user can then run the application from an icon in the device's Applications menu. In addition, the packager will sign the SIS file with a developer's Symbian Publisher ID. Such signed files can then be Express Signed and submitted for publication in Ovi Store.
For more information, please read the Forum Nokia Online Flash Lite Packager Guide.
Another 2-session webinar scheduled from Forum Nokia about Building Video Apps with Nokia Web Runtime & Flash Lite. One of the speakers of the event is a friend, Kirk Ballou from Flash Widgets LLC:
In this webinar, Robert Burdick of Forum Nokia and Kirk Ballou of Flash Widgets LLC will show you how to build great video and multimedia based applications on Nokia smartphones with Nokia Web Runtime and Adobe Flash Lite. Starting with an overview of video format and codecs supported by the devices, you will quickly know which devices to target your applications to. Next, you'll learn the basics of doing video playback in Flash Lite via streaming or progressive download. Then you'll see how easy it is to combine your web programming skills with Flash Lite's multimedia capabilities to create great rich mobile Internet multimedia applications. You'll also see some great examples of polished, commercial applications that bring the mobile experience to life with video!
Building Video Apps with Nokia Web Runtime & Flash Lite EMEA
27 May: 2 p.m. London | 4 p.m. Helsinki
Building Video Apps with Nokia Web Runtime & Flash Lite AMERICAS
27 May: 11 a.m. San Francisco | 2 p.m. New York
Forum Nokia scheduled a 2-session webinar about building Maemo & Symbian app using Qt Creator:
This webinar will demonstrate the cross-platform capabilities of Qt on the Maemo™ and Symbian platforms. Qt Creator is the IDE that accompanies the Qt 4.6 application and UI framework. Participants of the webinar will learn how to use Qt Creator to quickly and easily build and compile apps for both Maemo and Symbian platforms.
Building Maemo and Symbian Apps Using Qt Creator (Session 1) - 28 April
EMEA Session: 9am London | 10am Rome | 11am Helsinki | 4pm Singapore
Building Maemo and Symbian Apps Using Qt Creator (Session 2) - 11 May
EMEA Session: 9am London | 10am Rome | 11am Helsinki | 4pm Singapore
Latest FMLs and Leonardo's Blog are two simple applications I created using the Ovi AppWizard service. You can download them for free from the OviStore. Check them out!
In a recent post Dale mentioned the Ovi App Wizard, a content creation service I never heard of... So, what's this App Wizard for Ovi?
Thanks to Alessandro La Rosa we now have a nice video of 10x10 Mobile running on a real device:
Thank you Alessandro!
(via MobileCrunch) - The first videos of Symbian 4 have just been released for public consumption:
And I must agree with the following comment:
The first videos of Symbian^4 have just been released for public consumption, and we can’t help but notice that they seem very.. uninspired. Actually, perhaps that’s inaccurate. They’re very inspired. Directly inspired. By the competition.
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