Kuneri bloggy

Michael Halbherr, from Nokia, says Nokia is planning to include positioning support to all their phone models and satellite positioning (GPS) to every second phone.

Nokia estimates it will happen before 2010-2012. Now Nokia has five GPS supported phones and four more are already published. Estimation of sold GPS-units this year are 35 million. Amazing numbers.

Nokia will also improve their map services Ovi, to toughen the competition against Google. Service will work seamlessly between mobile and desktop browser. Desktop will function as routing planner on top of the map and user can follow created route with mobile application.

(original (c) Reuters).

This is for developers: GPS (Location) capability will not require certificate signing in S60 devices v. 3.2 and above. It will be user granted option, which is good for development sake.

Nokia prepared a success story for i2technologia in Media and Games section. Congratulations to Felipe and all other highly talented i2technologia guys!

i2 tecnologia is focused squarely on Flash Lite. Andrade developed Anina Dress Up using Flash Lite 1.1. “For me, the decision to develop in Flash Lite for the S60 platform came easily,” says Andrade. Co-founder Ayres adds “Ninety-nine percent of Flash Lite developers use the S60 platform because it has the widest reach of any development platform. When you combine the market-leading smartphone platform with the de facto standard for creating rich, interactive content, what do you get? You get faster time to market, more-attractive graphics, a better user experience, and Flash Player consistency across devices and screens. There is no doubt that the S60platform is the best choice for any Flash developer aiming to distribute his content.”to its clients. The company also is fueling its own mobile projects with the Flyer Framework, an open source Flash Lite and Python for S60 framework that allows Flash developers to extend native Flash Lite features.

A new patch release of KuneriLite is out. Go and get it!

• KuneriLite Emulator fixed
• Fixed some timer values in Timer plug-in which didn’t trigger
• Disabling launch using Flash Stub, as separate option
• Subfolder support for unzip-command

Cool news! Sony Ericsson wants mobile software developers to have the best of both worlds.

Next week at JavaOne, the company plans to demonstrate its Project Capuchin, which will allow software developers to create applications for mobile phones that can use pieces of both Java ME and Adobe Systems’ Flash Lite to create their applications. The company plans to release a set of APIs (application programming interfaces) and a software development kit in the second half of this year to bring the two different mobile development styles together.

For example, Java developers could decide to use the richer user interface technology found in Flash Lite, said Ulf Wretling, general manager, head of developer program and communications for Sony Ericsson. Or maybe a developer wants to use Java’s three-dimensional graphics for a mobile game but would prefer to use Flash Lite for menus, he said.

The problem with this kind of project is that while it creates a “bridge” between the two technologies, as Wretling put it, it also pulls developers away from the current road map for both Java and Flash Lite. The difference here is that developers will still be able to create regular Java or Flash applications using this set of APIs, just mixing and matching technology from the other camp as needed.

This technology will be used on the mass-market mobile phone, not the smartphone category with more sophisticated operating systems. Sony Ericsson phones will arrive in the second half of the year with this technology, but the company plans to release the software development kit before the phones arrive.

There has been a wave of news originating from Anand’s post lately about Flash Lite 3.1 made available for OEMs. *Personally* I don’t see this as a big news, due it’s for OEMs, and I don’t see any large scale OEM to go for that, due most of them already licensed Flash Lite from Adobe: No big impact for Flash Lite developers.

Today Mark Doherty (Manager of Developer Relations at Adobe Mobile and Devices - EMEA) provided official(?) details about upcoming Flash Lite 3.1 and its features. According to Mark; Flash Lite 3.1 does not offer big difference, but some improvements like;

• Improved Web Browsing, 91% of top 500 internet sites.
• Flash 9 (AS2 only) support
• Local Connection / HTML Text / GetURL_target / CSS support / WMode
• H.264 support / Improved video support (smoothing, seek)
• Improved memory handling for images
• MP3 Streaming support
• Linux Reference port

Looking forward to see first S60 FP2 device shipped and test Flash Lite 3.1. And thanks to Mark for providing us details.

Finally we released KuneriLite 0.9.6.1. There are cool new features that you will like. You can download it here. Please uninstall previous versions before installing, and do not forget to backup your project just in case.

New features

* Launch SWF in phone boot (startup)
* Days and month support for Timer plugin
* JPG resize command in Upload/Download plugin and Camera plugin
* Extracting zip files with Unzip command in File plugin
* Custom /predefined IAP (Internet Access Point) support in Upload/Download plugin
* Switch to disable escape decoding of a variable

Changes

* Fixes and optimizations for Flash Lite 3 devices
* Fixed install paths in KuneriLite Wizard
* Camera plugin buttons layout fixed in some phone models
* Fixed variable returning in Upload/Download plugin loadVariables command

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.

Adobe Mobile Products to Ship with Windows Mobile Phones

Adobe announces today that Microsoft has licensed Adobe® Flash® Lite™ to enable Flash Lite content within the Internet Explorer Mobile. Microsoft also licensed Adobe Reader® LE software for viewing Adobe’s PDF Documents.

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.

I am honored to be a Forum Nokia Champion this year :) I am glad to share this opportunity with other great guys from Flash Lite community and new Forum Nokia Champions; Leonardo and Scott. This is a positive beginning, as the number of Flash Lite people increasing in Nokia developer community.

Let me enjoy a long and fancy PR. It sounds exciting, ain’t it?

UGUR KANER NAMED AS A FORUM NOKIA CHAMPION

Ugur Kaner has been named a member of Forum Nokia Champion, a recognition and reward program for top mobile developers worldwide. Every six months, Forum Nokia, world’s largest dedicated mobile application developer community, invites outstanding members of the forum.nokia.com community to accept a one-year membership in this reward program. Each Forum Nokia Champion earns elevated professional status, sponsored access to Nokia technical services, and networking opportunities.

Forum Nokia Champions are a select group of outstanding individuals, honored because of their skills and devotion to the Forum Nokia community. Selection is made on the basis of each nominee’s knowledge as it is displayed through contributions to forum.nokia.com, as well as proven expertise within the mobile developer community. Activities and achievements that may be considered and used as a basis for selection might include participating in discussion boards at forum.nokia.com, achieving recognition for Nokia platform expertise through public tutorials or articles and at public speaking events, providing Nokia with feedback on products, documentation, features, or debugging, and sharing Nokia platform expertise in academic settings and in publications.

Forum Nokia is pleased to recognize Ugur Kaner for his spirit of community in sharing his knowledge with fellow mobile developers. For more details about Ugur Kaner and other Forum Nokia Champions, please visit www.forum.nokia.com/forumnokiachampion.