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Ericsson Application Awards page

Just spreading the word and reminding of: Ericsson has the deadline in the end of January, for registration of team for the great opportunity for student developers to gain exposure with the telecom world and have a chance to win upwards of EUR 20,000 in prize money.

That’s right, the competition is for students, but any company can participate as discussion partner to support the students during the development. Students should choose the company contact to join the competition. Process is described here. The point of the competition is to utilize Ericsson Labs enablers.

If you know any talented postgraduate or undergraduate students why not give them a hint :)

Nokia today released Qt 4.6, the latest version of the cross-platform application and UI framework. Featuring new platform support, powerful new graphical capabilities and support for multi-touch and gestures, Qt 4.6 makes developing advanced applications and devices easier and more enjoyable.

Highlights

• More eye candy

New animation framework – new advanced graphics effects like opacity, drop shadows, glow, and filtering are supported.

• More fingers

Ability to create multi-touch applications with new multi-touch and gestures, such as flicking and kinetic scrolling.

• More horsepower

More performance to deliver the “wow” effects.

• Updated tools

Qt Creator tool coming with SDK has been updated.

Cool!

Qt for Symbian is no more technology preview stage, according to videos the performance seems to vary between adequate to excellent.

Qt appears now to be much more tempting for mobile developers demanding better UX. For Nokia devices, with Qt technology you can create applications besides for S60, also for Maemo in future, perhaps for S40 as well.

Sources :

http://qt.nokia.com/about/news/nokia-releases-qt-4.6
http://qt.nokia.com/whatsnew
http://qt.nokia.com/products/platform/symbian

Many Swf Packager tools (KuneriLite, SWF2Go, Janus) use SVG-t as their primary icon format.

With these instructions you can use also PNG file easily:

1. Convert the PNG image to base64 format from here.

(Press “Browse” to select the file and then “Convert”)

2. You’ll see “Base64 representation of the source data”
Copy and paste the entire textfield into some text-editor.

3. As SVG is basically text file, we can directly use the Base64 formatted text.
Use the template text below to create your SVG (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>

Now save the text file and convert the SIS.
No more hassle with Illustrator, Inkscape and SVG2SVGT Converter !
However, your bitmap icon will not be scalable, so stick to SVG if you are targeting more than one device model.

Kudos to Riku Salminen/FN for the hint!

How easy it’s to start browsing a web site on your mobile browser? Launch the browser, type the address (how many clicks?), go! Well, if you want people to visit your web site; you have to make it easier to access. Many people will be way too lazy to type your address (especially if it’s long), if you want traffic, you have to make it dead simple. Then the question is: How? Now there is a new and handy tool for anyone to create website launchers for popular Symbian phones with WRT (Web Runtime Widget) support online.

1. Go to Website Launcher Generator

2. Specify your launcher widget’s name

3. Specify the URL to be launched

4. If you have one, upload an icon for the widget

5. Optionally, change the widget’s version number, and its unique ID

6. Click “Generate!” and download your new widget

Kudos to Alessandro, now we can offer our visitors to access our web site with one click from application menu.

On top of my wish-list; I have J2ME support, where you can create a J2ME based launcher for your website, which would let us to reach much more phones.

We are pleased to announce the availability of KuneriLite version 0.9.8.

There are two new plug-ins for recording sound with Flash Lite and counters for missed call and new SMSs. There are also major improvements on creating SIS packages and testing. You can find the release notes here.

New features

• Record plug-in for sound recording with Flash Lite
• Missed calls and unread SMS counters
• S60 5th edition support
• Adobe Flash Lite Distributable Player download support for S60 3.0 devices
• Support for static content (eases Symbiansigned procedure for simple Flash content)
• Debugging traces added (enabled only in test “Basic” version)

Fixes

• SIS vendor text field corrected
• Launches now always latest FL player version (even if developer edition is installed)

KuneriLite commercial license is also available for you to purchase. Enjoy!

Alessandro found a great solution to protect Flash Lite content with OMA DRM 1.0 forward lock for S60 Symbian SIS installers, and prepared a tutorial. Kudos!

The idea is pretty simple but it took sometime to get it done for several reasons. It involves creating a new file in PIP format which contains other files. I figure out the method several months ago but I had to do several tests and rebuild the Symbian C++ code for launching the Flash Lite content.

It’s cool Nokia 5800 automatically rotates the screen to landscape/portrait according to phone orientation. However, you do not want that to happen always when developing Flash Lite applications. Apparently there is no way to disable this ‘freature’ directly from Flash Lite [1]. UPDATE: After my post, Nokia published a new platform service API to disable auto rotation. Please see here.

Below is a hack to disable auto rotation / orientation change from a Flash Lite project for Nokia 5800 (360×640 screen). It simply rotates the main Movieclip to rotate -90 degrees and back whenever an orientation change is detected. It’s not the perfect solution, however will keep you going until Nokia or Adobe fixes the real problem. (Note: You need a main Movieclip for this to work)

var stageSizeListener:Object = new Object();
stageSizeListener.onResize=function()
{
if(Stage.width > Stage.height) {
_root.main._rotation = -90;
_root.main._x = 0;
_root.main._y = 360;
} else {
_root.main._rotation = 0;
_root.main._x = 0;
_root.main._y = 0;
}
}
Stage.addListener(stageSizeListener);

If you would like to start using S60 Platform Services with your Flash Lite project, or would like to compile and test a sample FLA using Platform Services; you have 2 things to do;

1. Download ActionScript Library for S60 Platform Services file and extract

2. Copy the folder to /Users/<your user name>/Library/Application/Support/Adobe/Flash CS4/en/Configuration

Pasi posted a raelly nice article: Contacts Demo – S60 Platform Services API example. There is step by step guide and tutorial to prepare the Flash Lite app utilizing new S60 5ht edition Platform Services, and files for the source code. Kudos!

Here is my first Nokia S60 Platform Services API test with Adobe Flash Lite. This demo is designed to run 360×640 screens (like Nokia 5800 and N97). Application first loads contacts name, phone number, work and home addresses and shows all informations nicely in interactive scrollable menu.

Adobe on avannut  10 miljoonan dollarin rahaston nopeuttamaan innovatiivisien Flash Lite sovelluksien tuotekehitystä ja markkinointia, osana Open Screen projektia.

Lisää tietoja täältä.

Käytännössä kaikki yleisimmät sovellukset mukaanlukien pelit, hyväksytään mukaan.
Koska sponsorina on myös Nokia, Platform Services ominaisuuksien hyödyntäminen mainitaan, mutta se ei ole kriteeri osallistumiselle.

10 miljoonan euron potista vähintään puolet myönnetään suoraan tuotekehitykseen.

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