(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
There's a new page on Forum Nokia showcasing latest Flash Lite tutorials created by Forum Nokia and Omega Mobile, made possible by funding from the Open Screen Project Fund.
Want to learn how to best take advantage of support for Adobe Flash Lite on Nokia devices? If so, these demonstration applications are a good place to start. These tutorials are designed to provide you with working code for key aspects of Flash Lite integration with the latest S60 devices from Nokia. You will find code for key tasks such as obtaining location information, sending an SMS message, and many more.
Read the full article and download source code here.
Ovi Daily App Blog just published a nice review of 10×10 Mobile. Thank you blog.ovi.com.
Forum Nokia just published a series of Flash Lite tutorials along with source files including several interesting development topics.
These tutorials provide working code for key aspects of Flash Lite integration with the latest S60 devices from Nokia. Each tutorial includes the Flash project, skinned swf files that can be run on an S60 5th Edition device and a tutorial guide document. Several of the tutorials illustrate the packaging of Flash Lite content into a WRT widget.
This is the complete list:
Music application tutorial LBS application tutorial RSS news application tutorial All application tutorials Social Networking application tutorial Photostream application tutorial Event application tutorial Video application tutorial
(via Biskero) - Forum Nokia published a new resource: Graphic Optimisation Tips for mobile design and development.
This document contains graphic optimisation tips for mobile design and development. It covers optimising the use of graphics in the browser, in native applications, within Flash Lite, and within themes.
Discover more about designing for mobile at forum.nokia.com/designcenter.
(via Jappit) - Forum Nokia recently published a very interesting guide about RIAs for mobile devices: A developer’s guide to creating Rich Internet Applications for Nokia devices. This guide describes the steps of technology selection, design, development, testing, and go-to-market for Rich Internet Applications created for Nokia devices. Download the pdf version here.
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