I just found a simple diagram I prepared for a common question: Can I develop my own plugins for KuneriLite?
Answer is “No” at the moment, but there is a simple way to use KuneriLite System plugin and communicate your application with your Flash Lite movie using KuneriLite. Check the diagram below.
We are once again proud to be mentioned as a “Success Story” by Forum Nokia and featured on Nokia Enablers and Infrastructure web page!
How cool would it be if developers and designers could create great-looking S60 applications without any special technical knowledge? Creating mobile applications for S60 devices generally requires knowledge of Symbian OS, the platform’s underlying operating system, and the C++ programming language. However, simplicity is the promise of Kuneri Ltd.’s KuneriLite, a rapid application development toolkit that lets users create S60 applications on a PC using only Flash Lite from Adobe. “There is no need to know anything about Symbian OS, since the developer never touches any Symbian code,” says Ugur Kaner, CEO and co-founder of Kuneri Ltd.
You can also get the PDF of the interview or access from Nokia page.
I don’t usually post about mobile phone themes; I know there are thousands of those and most of them are not any more special than the other. But I recently got a nice introduction from Ishtiaq and I liked his work and enthusiasm. He is a real musicaholic and creates those good looking Symbian (Nokia) themes in his free time and publishes on NokiaSymbianThemes.com for free: Nice hobby ;) And (almost) none of them has this annoying links on background image. Except being huge in file size (1 MB+) and using bitmap images, I am positive about those themes.
I liked Fury, Baby Blue and Revolvers. Check out his site, am sure there are some you will enjoy also.
Some Flash Lite developers have been wishing Adobe to let developers to embed Flash Lite player with their products (there is even petition).
Its not going to happen, for various reasons, one you can see below, if you stand some nerd language:
In S60 phone models embedding (embed SIS into SIS install file) can (would) be used to provide common frameworks or game engines within applications.
However, embedding SIS does not work much at all in S60 3rd edition phones, because 3rd platform suffers severe bug, which ruins the method completely:
If you embed SIS into your application (for instance FL player) you should define dependency to embedded SIS into applications using it, to avoid uninstallation of embedded product, when some of the applications is uninstalled.
This just does not work in S60 3rd edition.
Example: If user installs application A which come with embedded file x. Then user installs app B using embedded x. When user uninstalls A, also embedded file will be removed!
Actually it is not possible to provide other file types either, to be used commonly for applications, due problematic S60 uninstallation behaviour.
So you won’t see many common players, frameworks, engines around for S60 platform, which you could integrate within your product, except having customized solution instead.
Forum Nokia has launched a new competition for S60 developers. There will be a new programming challenge on a monthly basis and best solutions will be awarded:
Problem for January
S60 supports multiple different runtimes and programming languages. The aim of this month’s competition is to come up with a way to combine different runtimes.
We are asking you to design and implement a framework that unifies S60 runtimes. The goal is intercommunication of runtimes (for example Symbian C++, Java, Flash, Python, Web Runtimes, you name it). With this kind of runtime interaction it is possible to access new features and re-use existing solutions in a manner that is unheard of. Provide us with your framework implementation and also at least one working example of runtimes interworking. If you don’t have time to implement all the necessary parts - let us know your ideas and planned design to score more points in the contest.
The January’s competition is open until 15th of February (15.2.2008) and we hope to have the best solutions published by the end of February.
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Some shameless promotion of our products here:
About frameworks, KuneriLite framework which unifies pure Symbian C++ and Flash Lite, is based on HTTP protocol, giving unlimited access from Flash Lite to S60 features with simple API.
Developer is able to create real S60 application, using powers of Flash Lite in UI development and utilize smartphone features, without thinking of implementatation for platform, in this case for Symbian OS.
When developing on top of KuneriLite framework, it is possible to create hybrid application mixing Flash Lite, Symbian C++ and even Open C runtime modules!
Porting existing C-implementation to S60 environment is dramatically faster, than creating complete Symbian version..
HTTP protocol allows to spread the development to different areas, like using J2ME for development, but there the functionality is limited and access to S60 features is pretty constrained.
We are publishing new release soon with new features!
We uploaded a sneak preview of next KISS60 version on YouTube. Most significant improvement is the new User Interface which is pure Flash Lite 1.1 (works much faster on real device than the video). Behind the scenes, there is a robust architecture powered by KuneriLite 0.9.4.
There are also some new features in next version. Now it’s possible to define screensaver timeout and backlight durations. It’s also easier to integrate your existing Flash Lite screensavers, in the new version.
We expect it to be ready at the end of this month and planning to make the first release in February at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. If you are going there, don’t forget to visit us;)
Happy new year present for all Flash Lite and S60 developers from Kuneri;
* KuneriLite Beta 0.9.4 is now available. See release notes here. There are many new plugins available. We are sure you will like our new Accelerometer and Upload features :)
* KuneriLite Wiki is launched. We moved all documentation to new wiki. Please let us know if you have any comments or questions.
One cool news among all those is that; you can now use KuneriLite Wizard to pack your Flash Lite projects into S60 SIS installers without any hassle. KuneriLite Wizard comes with KuneriLite Basic installer and free to use for all kind of projects. Go and get it!
Nokia announced winners in Open C challenge developer contest:
MobiTubia Grand Prize Winner
Mobitubia lets you browse YouTube videos.
It is a Flash Lite video player and YouTube portal application, developed by Sittiphol Phanvilai of Bangkog from Thailand (received a cash prize of $10,000.). The developer ported 25,000 lines of code to the Open C environment to make the application compatible with S60 on Symbian OS. Demo was really cool!
Other winners were LiveTraffic and MobiClass. (LiveTraffic is traffic assistance software and MobiClass is a virtual multi-media courseware application)
Gongratulations!
What is Open C all about:
Sponsored by Nokia’s global developer support program, Forum Nokia, in conjunction with Orange and the Symbian Developer Network, the Open C Challenge invited developer entrants to submit open source applications built for mobile or desktop environments and ported to S60 on Symbian OS, or Native Symbian C++ applications developed in the Open C environment.
Open C Plug-In lowers the barriers to entry and reduces the learning curve for developers porting an application’s logic and core components to the S60 platform. Utilizing eight standard C function libraries, Open C enables developers to more easily migrate a broad range of open source and desktop applications to Symbian OS.
More information.
Today at 12 PM EST (check your local time), Spaghetti Sort presents Janus; the ultimate professional tool for the Flash Lite/Flex developer. Daniele and Leonardo will present the upcoming version of Janus, with some good news for mobile developers. Don’t miss it!
Here is more information.
KISS60TM enables Adobe® Flash® LiteTM screensavers on a wider set of devices, offering more effective promotions for campaign managers and higher revenues for content developers and distributors.
October 24, 2007
Oulu, Finland – Kuneri, innovative mobile design and development company based in Finland, today unveiled public beta release of their new product KISS60TM. KISS60TM is a unique product, enabling users to collect, manage, share and enjoy Adobe® Flash® LiteTM screensavers on S60 based mobile devices.
“There are 50 million Flash Lite enabled S60 devices, but most of them can not utilize Flash Lite screensavers although they have the capability; that’s a large potential loss” says Ugur Kaner, CEO of Kuneri. “Flash Lite offers a better user experience than traditional screensavers, we believe there is a good market potential. We aim to help mobile campaign managers and Flash Lite content developers and distributors to benefit this potential by utilizing KISS60.”
“We use mobile screensavers to promote International Mobile Gaming Awards and KISS60 helps us to reach more people; clearly adding value to our promotions” says Jessica Rei, PR Manager of IMGA. “KISS60 is not only a great tool, but also a very handy widget to use in daily life, we absolutely enjoy it” she continues.
KISS60TM is an S60 application created using KuneriLiteTM Rapid Application Development toolkit for Adobe® Flash® LiteTM, and works on all S60 3rd edition and newer Nokia devices. KISS60TM has a very user friendly and simple interface, allowing users to create their own screensaver collections, download new screensavers easily and share using SMS or Bluetooth®. KISS60TM is free of charge and can be downloaded from www.KISS60.com . IMGA screensavers are also available on KISS60TM website and www.imgawards.com .
About Kuneri
Kuneri Ltd. is an innovative mobile design and development company based in Oulu, Finland. Kuneri creates mobile products, offers expert services to enterprises and provides tools for mobile developers on Adobe® Flash® Lite™ and Symbian S60 platforms. Kuneri is a privately held company founded in 2006.
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