WhyMCA Spring 2010 is the first italian Mobile Developer Conference. An event oriented to developers and mobile enthusiasts. The conference is scheduled for friday, May 21 in Milan (Politecnico di Milano - Campus Bovisa) and it's completely free. The event will cover topics like:
- Android, iPhone, Windows Phone 7, Qt, Flash mobile, Vodafone 360, framework cross-platform, mobile web...
- Mobile Gaming, Augmented Reality, Mobile Security...
- Application Design & Usability, Mobile User Experience...
Read more information on the official event website.
Forum Nokia collected some useful articles covering the most interesting aspects of mobile (web) design.
.net Mobile Design Guide is a collection of articles about mobile web development. Articles are written by several people, who have great expertice on the mobile web.
The Mobile Design Guide was produced to supplement the April 2009 issue of Computer Arts Magazine. Aimed at the magazine core readership of creative web and graphic designers - it was billed as the ultimate guide to creating stunning mobile content.
Read the full article series here.
New useful resource released by teehan+lax to help designers who want to begin working on iPad projects and create custom UI elements on the fly:
Now that Apple has officially released the iPad we want to start designing for it. While Apple’s interface builder is great, it doesn’t really allow us to create custom UI elements on the fly. We decided to take a page from our iPhone GUI PSD and create one for the iPad.
Read the full post here and/or download the iPad GUI PSD.
Symbian Foundation revealed some details about the new Symbian UI and made available an open discussion to the community for questions, comments, suggestions, requests, and generally anything that relates to this proposal. The corresponding Major Contribution Proposals are Orbit and Direct UI. This simple mockup reminds me something like Android and its homescreen widgets. Let's see what will happen... More info below:
- Orbit: http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/index.php/Prop/Orbit#Current_drafts
- Direct UI: http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/in...Prop/Direct_UI
- Symbian UI Concept Proposal submitted by Nokia on 14 January 2010: http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/im...roposal_v2.doc
Thanks to Ugur (Kuneri) and Riku Salminen (FN) we now have a great trick which enables us to use PNG images as Symbian application icon instead of SVG.
Basically after we convert the PNG image to base64 format from here, we just need to directly use the Base64 formatted text in an hand-made SVG file (SVG is basically text file) using the template text below to create our fresh icon (replace the text THE BASE64 ENCODED BITMAP GOES HERE with your copy pasted text):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" contentScriptType="text/ecmascript" zoomAndPan="magnify" baseProfile="tiny" contentStyleType="text/css" version="1.0" width="6.77196" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" viewBox="0 0 6.77196 6.85856" height="6.85856" fill-rule="evenodd"> <g><metadata/><g> <image x="-2.847" y="-3.71656" transform="matrix(1 0 0 1
2.847 3.71656)" width="6.77196" xlink:href="data:image/png;base64, THE BASE64 ENCODED BITMAP GOES HERE" xlink:type="simple" xlink:actuate="onLoad" height="6.85856" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" xlink:show="embed"/> </g></g></svg>
Forum Nokia released a UI framework for the web runtime developers, Guarana UI: a jQuery-Based UI Library for Nokia WRT. Nokia WRT is a development and delivery platform that allows the creation of applications (widgets) based on standard web technologies, such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and AJAX. WRT Framework intends to offer developers a set of common components to create and deploy widgets in a friendly way.
The Guarana UI Library is a jQuery-based set of customisable UI elements, application frameworks, and templates that can be used for the creation of user interfaces in Nokia's Web Runtime platform. Click here to download.
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