Adobe just launched a Flash Mobile Gallery containing Flash Lite screensavers, wallpapers, games and applications. You can see elite examples of Flash Lite content with a demonstration, description and reference to their developers.
It’s a proud moment for us to be on Forum Nokia as a featured developer with our product KuneriLite. Check it out to get to know us and our vision better.
In this interview we speak with Ugur Kaner, CEO of Kuneri about the company, the products and what he sees on the horizon for mobile development.
In April and May, I will be attending and giving presentations, tutoring for workshops in various events about Flash Lite and KuneriLite. If you happen to attend any of those, just drop by and say hi!
2nd April 2008 - Forum Nokia Code Camp: S60 Sensor APIs - Helsinki
I will be presenting how KuneriLite can utilize sensors and will be demonstrating how to build a simple Flash Lite sensor game in 15 minutes. I will also be attending to workshops to guide developers, answer their questions and help them to put hands on active development for Flash Lite and KuneriLite.
You can learn details here and can find agenda here.
4th - 5th April 2008 - Over the Air event - London
I will be presenting KuneriLite and talk about how it drives the innovation to create great-looking S60 applications faster, easier and cheaper with Flash Lite. Surely will be present in workshops.
28th - 29th May 2008 - S60 Summit 2008 - Barcelona
I will be presenting and demonstrating KuneriLite, showing how it can be used to create rich mobile applications without huge requirements and answering questions.
More information can be found here.
Ugur.-
Eventhough we love Flash Lite, mobile web is still the only solution to reach most people out there. Whatever application or service you create, there has to be a ‘Web side’ to make it a complete service. I just spotted a nice article on SitePoint giving cool tips on how to create mobile web sites. Check it out, you will need it some day.
BTW, stay tuned, Kuneri is coming with a cool solution for anyone to create mobile web sites the easiest way (as usual in Kuneri style ;) ).
Nokia today announces their plans to bring Microsoft’s Silverlight into S60 platform.
Silverlight is cross-platform plug-in for browser which competes with technologies like Adobe Flash and Flash Lite.
The arrangement with Nokia will substantially extend the reach of Silverlight by making the platform available for hundreds of millions of devices, including S60 on Symbian smartphones from a range of manufacturers, as well as Nokia Series 40 devices and Nokia Internet tablets.
Today S60 developers can use: C++ (using native Symbian OS APIs and Open C providing subset of standard POSIX libraries), S60 Web Run-time (supporting standards-based web technologies such as Ajax, JavaScript, CSS and HTML), the Java(TM) language, Flash Lite from Adobe, and Python.
There are some great posts, which are quite good survey to the current problems in mobile development (platform fragmentation, feature access, distribution and marketing options).
Rafe Blandford post is one good, insprired by number of other well known, like Michael Mace’s post(Mobile Opportunity: Mobile applications, RIP). It is about Web as platform and question could it solve distribution and fragmentation problems and what problems web will bring as well.
Rafe lists common platforms and their problems there ( Symbian C++, Open-C, Python, Java ME, Flash Lite, WRT and Web).
About S60 he pointed this out, which I like to share here:
S60 is also moving towards a transparent consumer model - the idea that all applications are accessed and behave in a similar way. The idea is that the technology an application uses (be it native C++, WRT or Flash Lite) is invisible to the user. All applications have an icon in the application launcher, all can be multi-tasked, all have a similar look and feel (or the potential too).
Check those out (if you haven’t already), nice reading indeed.
There is a short review of KISS60 , the ultimate Flash Lite screensaver manager, on Punto Informatico. From the English translation we got from Google, it is a positive article, which makes us happy. Let us know if you also have comments or reviews.
Today, we are proud to announce the availability of KISS60 Beta 0.9! We have been working hard to make it exceptionally good looking, highly functional and pleasant to use. New version of KISS60 is one of the best examples, exposing the potential of our innovative platform KuneriLite and demonstrating the next generation S60 User Experience. Now you can enjoy Flash Lite screensavers on your S60 device even more and easily manage them using our software.
KISS60 is also a great potential for content aggregators, advertisers and screensaver developers. It enables Flash Lite content on 20% more devices, increasing content availability and boosting revenues. KISS60 has a very flexible content download system, that can be integrated into any kind of payment system or distribution channel. Furthermore, availability of many free screensavers makes it a very powerful advertising platform.
Some feature highlights;
- Interactive S60 UI with Flash Lite
- Enable Flash Lite screensavers on your S60 phone
- Easily manage your screensavers
- Simply download free screensavers from free KISS60 gallery
- Share KISS60 and your screensavers with other S60 and Series 40 phones
- Set up screensaver timeout and backlight duration
If you are in Mobile World Congress, just drop by to Adobe stand and learn more about KuneriLite and KISS60 from us. If not, stay tuned to our blog for latest news and enjoy KISS60 in your hands.
Guys behind Joiku, our distribution and promotional partner, have done a great job and brought a new innovation to S60 world. Meet JoikuSpot; a free, instant and easy way to turn your S60 smartphone into a portable Wi-Fi router!
JoikuSpot is a free mobile software solution that turns Nokia Smartphones to WLAN HotSpots.
JoikuSpot software is installed directly to the phone. When switched on, laptops and ipods can establish instant and fast wireless internet connection via smartphone’s JoikuSpot access point using phone’s own 3G internet connection.
Multiple devices can connect to JoikuSpot in parallel and seamlessly share the same 3G internet connection. JoikuSpot acts thus as an internet gateway to external WLAN devices.
This year we will be in Mobile World Congress in Barcelona at the Adobe stand. We will showcase new release of KISS60, KuneriLite and some of our other Flash Lite products. Stop by if you would like to meet us or learn more about what we do. I also will be giving a theater presentation “A New Approach to S60 Application Development”. Will be happy to see you there.
Adobe booth;
17:00 - 19:00 on February 11, 12, 13 Demo Station 2 (Hall 1, Stand 1E05).
Theater presentation;
12:40 - 12:55 on February 11, 12, 13 and 14
16:20 - 16:35 on February 11, 12 and 13 (Hall 1, Stand 1E05)
