Alessandro just went live on the Ovi Store with TV Guide Italy.
TV Guide Italy is an application for Nokia touch devices that allows you to browse TV listings, see what’s on air in every moment of the day, and search for all your favorite programs. I have it on my device and I can say: great work!
(via Vivek) - Forum Nokia released a simple and useful AIR app to help mobile developers and designers to easily build mobile prototypes running on real devices: Flowella! With this tool you can have an interactive prototype without writing a single line of code, watch the video below:
Flowella is an easy to use tool that enables designers and developers to create design prototypes — without writing a line of code. Prototypes are built using images of screen mock-ups and defining links between the screens. This information is then used to create an Adobe Flash Lite 3.0 application or Web Runtime (WRT) widget. These applications can then be run on one of over seventy Nokia devices or in a simulator supplied with Flowella, enabling the application interaction to be assessed.
(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.
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
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!
Alessandro La Rosa just published a new great tutorial about WRT Widgets and Nokia APIBridge Plugin. As you may know the APIBridge is a Symbian C++ engine that exposes native functionalities to Web Runtime widgets. These functionalities include: Uploading files, Capturing video, image, and audio, Reading files, Resizing images.
It's a very interesting step-by-step how to, so, check it out!
Forum Nokia recently released ApiBridge, a tool that extends the features of Web Runtime (WRT) widgets by using capabilities of Symbian OS. ApiBridge can be used to access Symbian OS capabilities from WRT widgets on the Symbian OS, S60 5.0, Symbian OS, S60 3.2, and Symbian OS, S60 3.1 platforms. These capabilities include:
- Uploading files
- Capturing video, image, and audio
- Reading files
- Resizing images
- Creating image thumbnails
- Using the logging service
- Operating the location service
- Utilizing the media management service
Sound really interesting for WRT developers! You can Learn more on the ApiBridge wiki page. PZGWSH23ZTU6 Download the ApiBridge tool here.
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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