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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.

Pikkoo introduces interactive Live Screensavers and partners with Foreca to bring weather-cast of 140.000 locations worldwide to mobile screensavers

Oulu, Finland, 30th June 2009 – Pikkoo, an innovative Finnish startup, today introduced the ground breaking Live Screensaver concept, streaming information to mobile devices without ever pushing a button. Using Pikkoo Live Screensavers, mobile users will not only be served up-to-date information anytime, anywhere without a need to launch an application, but also will be able to interact with their screensaver just as any other mobile application.

With the introduction, the first live screensaver is launched in partnership with Foreca, leading Finnish digital weather service company. Foreca Live Weather Screensaver will bring up-to-date, geographic-specific weather information of 140.000 locations worldwide to mobile screensavers. Users will also be able to get detailed information from foreca.mobi, the most comprehensive mobile weather service, using the screensaver.

“Here at Foreca, we’re very excited to offer such a novel concept to our audience together with Pikkoo. With an ever increasing demand from the mobile audience for accurate, up-to-date weather information; it will be possible for Foreca to bring weather-cast into everyone’s pocket with minimum effort” says Marko Moilanen, VP Business Development, Foreca.

Utilizing Adobe Flash® Lite™ and its own proprietary technologies, Pikkoo interactive Live Screensavers are able to brings contextual content to mobile devices, reducing information delivery to the simplest form possible for today’s mobile devices.

“Why should you launch an application to access information, while information could be served right in front of you?” asks Mr. Ugur Kaner, CEO of Pikkoo. “Our partnership with Foreca is one great example of how weather information could be brought to users, without users needing to go and get themselves. Pikkoo interactive Live Screensavers can similarly be applied to a multitude of uses to a variety of industries as a value-added service that can capture any mobile user today.” he continues.

For more information, visit www.pikkoo.com/foreca-live-weather-screensaver.html or contact Pikkoo.

About Pikkoo

Pikkoo is an innovative startup based in Oulu, Finland. Pikkoo focuses on social, user generated and interactive mobile content for Adobe Flash® Lite™ and non-Flash Lite enabled phones. The company is privately held and founded in early 2009. Pikkoo launched private beta in November 2008, and opened to the public in May 2009.  For more information, go to http://www.pikkoo.com

About Foreca Ltd.

Foreca Ltd. is a full-scale weather company based in Helsinki, Finland. Foreca has more than ten years of experience of forecasting weather and providing internet and mobile weather services. Foreca specializes in weather services for digital media and especially mobile devices. Foreca’s first commercial mobile weather service was launched already in 1997, and it is still steady revenue creator. Thanks to its world-wide partner network Foreca is able to provide accurate weather information for any market. Today, Foreca’s mobile weather services have users across all continents. For more information please visit http://corporate.foreca.com

About Adobe® Flash® Lite™

Adobe® Flash® Lite™ software, Adobe’s award-winning Flash Player runtime specifically designed for mobile devices, to enable web browsing of Flash Player compatible content. Flash Lite has shipped on 1 billion devices (40% of all new handsets in 2008) and will reach more than 2.5 billion devices by the end of 2010.

Contact Info

Pikkoo Ltd.
Mr. Endale Mitiku, VP Marketing & Sales
Tel: +358 443 19 1259
Email: dale[at]pikkoo[d.t]com
Adress: Pakkahuoneenkatu 12 A, 90100, Oulu, Finland

Foreca Ltd.
Mr. Tuomo Kolehmainen, Business Manager, Channels
Tel. +358 44 3300646
Email: tuomo.kolehmainen[at]foreca[d.t]com
Address: Tammasaarenkatu 5, FI-00180, Finland

via Pikkoo blog

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

Kotimainen Karttaselain on uudenlainen maastonavigaattori mobiilisovellus.

Sen lisäksi, että sovellus näyttää tarkasti maastonmuodot, siinä on mainioita ominaisuuksia kuten osoitehaku, GPS:n seuraus, retkeily- ja matkailukohteiden näyttö.. Karttoja voi näyttää tarkasti jopa 1:2000 mittakaavalla.

Oheinen kuva näyttää miten tarkka Karttaselain (oikealla) on verrattuna Google Maps:iin :

Sovellus on Beta-asteella, toteutettu Flash Lite:llä ja sen saa ILMAISEKSI puhelimeen osoitteesta www.karttaselain.mobi.

Ohjelman kehittämistä voi tukea lahjoituksella, suosittelemme!

Viime vuonna julkaistun uuden S60 5th edition ohjelmistoalustan mukana tullut
ActionScript Service API toi paljon uutta myös Flash Lite sovelluskehittäjille.

Kokemuksemme PlatForm Services API:sta Nokia 5800 kosketusnäytöllisen puhelimen kanssa ovat olleet pääsääntöisesti myönteisiä. API:n avulla Flash Lite sovellus integroituu helposti esimerkiksi Google Maps palveluun, informoi saapuneista sähköposteista, näyttää kalenterimerkinnät, toteuttaa näyttävät eleohjaukset ja niin edelleen.

API:a käytettäessä epämieluisaa on (poikkeuksetta?) se että käynnistettäessa sovellusta vaaditaan käyttäjää erikseen sallimaan puhelimen tietojen ja tilojen lukeminen ja painalluksia vaaditaan jostain syystä useita. Sovelluksen asentaminen “data\others\trusted” kansioon (tuttu 3rd edition:sta) ei tunnu vaikuttavan asiaan.

Paljon koodiesimerkkejä Flash Litelle löytyy täältä.

Aiheeseen liittyviä uutisia kuluneelta viikolta :
Markkinat ovat ottaneet Nokian kosketuspuhelimen hyvin vastaan:
Nokia myynyt jo miljoona 5800 XpressMusic kännykkää (englanniksi)

(Varmasti lohtua Nokialle kun viimeisten tulosuutisien mukaan juuri S60 puhelimien myynti on ollut pettymys)

As we are coming closer to release Pikkoo, we are preparing to return KISS60 back to it’s original purpose (not a screensaver gallery, but a Flash mobile screensaver distribution channel for S60 phones). During these preparations, we dug into KISS60 statistics to see what it has achieved in 14 months since it’s launch late 2007. What we see was quite satisfactory for a service we haven’t put any effort to market or sell, distributing more than 300.000 Flash Lite screensavers to various devices in the market, mosly being S60 3rd edition. It’s also interesting to see, KISS60 mobile application was downloaded (and installed) on more than 40.000 Nokia S60 devices out there.

This creates a rough vision for us for Pikkoo, which supports not only Flash Lite, but all other devices and unlimited content generated by users online.

Below you can see a summary of the the analytics, which includes number of screensavers served per year (duration), screensavers downloaded online or from KISS60 mobile client application.

As you know, Nokia recently launched 5800 Xpress Music (aka Tube) couple days ago. Tube is not the first or last touch device Nokia has (check here). Only difference from previous ones seem to be the competition and platform.

Together with Tube, S60 5th edition is also revealed, which brings Platform Services enabling for Flash Lite (and WRT Widgets) to get more of the device and the system. From 5th edition on (or is it?), Flash Lite will be able to access:

Application manager

Calendar records

Contacts records

Log information

SMS and MMS messaging

The media gallery

Device location

Landmarks

System information

Sensors

Surely I will write my thoughts about these later on, but should first put my hands on. Meantime, check Sittiphol’s post and make yourself familiar with S60 5th edition.

Today; I would like to make the introduction of a new innovation. I don’t use ‘innovation’ word to be cool or look corporate; I really mean it. I will try to make the value proposition in 3 short steps;

1. Flash Lite developers have to pack their content for distribution
2. Packaging is a hassle for developers on Windows, and impossible for Mac & Linux users
3. SWFPack is a novel online service offering a cross platform, zero-install and easy to use Web 2.0 solution.

Yes, yet another innovation from Kuneri (like KuneriLite and KISS60). No installation, no prerequisites, no Windows jail, no SDKs, no set up struggles, no waiting, no payment.. Give your SWF file, SWFPack prepares your SIS file in a second. Can not be simpler; can not be faster; can not be easier.

SWFPack is scheduled to be released on 23rd October if everything goes fine. We just wanted to give a short introduction with a little sneak peek. Please check out current features and screenshots below, and we will be very happy to receive your feelings and even early feature requests ;)

Highlights

• Cross Platform (Online; works on any modern browser)

• No installation

• Fast ( 1-2 seconds to compile )

• Easy (Web 2.0 UI)

• Cheap (Free, just sign up)

Features

• S60 3.x compatible SIS files (Cab, NFL WRT Widget support on the way)

• Works with Adobe Flash Lite Player 1.x, 2.x or 3.x

• Supports Flash Lite Developer Edition player

• Automatic signing of SIS with certification valid for next 15-years

• Supports Symbian Signed Certification: Open Signed, Certified Signed and Express Signed

• Full S60 compatible (functionality and user experience)

• Enhanced memory management

• Content protection: protects application from accidental deletion and malicious use

• Supports Flash Lite 2.x compatible only applications

• Automatic application launch at phone start-up (upcoming)

Leonardo announced that they decided to make Janus Engine open source. Nice!

Janus Symbian Engine, the custom made extension that will help you improve Flash Lite functionalities, has become an open source project!