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“He is equally at home as a business person and an expert in distributed architectures, and is an enthusiastic supporter of the Forum Nokia community. You may know him from his blog or as felipebzr from his contributions to the Forum Nokia Wiki, where he writes in English and Portuguese/Brazilian. Felipe was a participant in the first ever Forum Nokia Developer Hackathon held during Nokia Developer Summit 2009 in Monaco, and his many awards include winner of the 2009 Nokia Sem Limites Challenge and winner of the 2008 Forum Nokia Code Example Challenge.” - Forum Nokia

Forum Nokia Team, Thank you very much for your kind words!

I’m very impressed with Gravity, a native Twitter client for the S60 platform. It supports multiple accounts, Twitter Search, Laconica, posting of pictures via MobyPicture & TwitPic and wraps everything into a gorgeous looking interface.

Gravity on Nokia 5800 from smashpOp on Vimeo.

HTC Hero delivers a more complete web browsing experience and allows mobile users to access a broad variety of Adobe Flash technology based content available on the web today.

Read more about the news here.
See the video.

“Tower” is the fifth pre-release from the Qt for S60 porting project. It is based on the Qt 4.5 codebase. Release focus has been on improving graphics and network performance, better GUI integration, and porting even more Qt modules to S60.

New modules in this package are:

- QtSql: SQL module with sqlite3 backend
- QtWebkit: Experimental Webkit support for S60
- Phonon: The Phonon multimedia library (currently without a backend)

Other highlights:

- Windows Installer with pre-built Qt for S60 for both emulator and phone
- Added support for QLocalSocket & QLocalServer
- Added API for setting softkeys
- Experimental support of the new Symbian build system
- Experimental handling of out-of-memory situations and exceptions

A detailed list of changes is available at:
http://pepper.troll.no/s60prereleases/packages/changes-4.5.2-tower

Later today I am going to play with it

In this article I and Mario Barbosa are going to show tips and tricks to use accelerometer sensor data to better create user interaction and improve game and user interfaces. Enclosed in the article you will also find two full implemented swf and the respective source code to download. Please, enjoy and give us your feedback!

The S60 platform allows Flash Lite applications installed on S60 mobile devices to access data from the physical sensors of a device using the Sensor Service API.
How to use S60 Platform Services to create accelerometer based user interaction with Adobe Flash Lite

I have just received from Forum Nokia two new 5800 XpressMusic touchscreen devices!

Thank you Ung and all Forum Nokia team! You guys deserves all merits!

Abstract

The article demonstrates how to avoid auto rotation of Flash Lite content on Nokia 5800 XpressMusic for Flash Lite 3.x supported from S60 5th Edition onwards. Enclosed in the article you will find a zip file containing all source code used in this article.

How to avoid auto rotation of Flash Lite content on Nokia 5800

Dear Reader, I wrote another article on Forum Nokia Wiki focused on web runtime widgets. This time I talked about How to Load external JavaScript files at Runtime to reduce application startup time and improve the application performance.

You may have many others benefits by using it:

• reduce application startup time;
• minimize data traffic;
• improve the user experience when it comes to mobile data traffic expenses;
• improve the user experience inducing flow;

This week’s featured article, Using built-in GPS and JavaScript to display your current position on Google Maps, is created by Felipe Andrade (me)

Last week I wrote an article for Forum Nokia Wiki explaining how to display your current GPS position on a Map inside your WRT widget. Enclosed in the article you will also find a full implemented widget and the respective source code to download (change the extension to ZIP).

To read the full wiki article go to the following link.
Using Nokia built-in GPS and pure JavaScript to display your current position on Google Maps

Sorry, but I know that I’m a bit late to propagate this note

Felipe Rodrigues, a front-end engineer at i2tecnologia is among the winners of the Mobile Design Challenge. He provided great contributions to Forum Nokia Wiki, you check all of them below.

High performance Widgets: Combine your JavaScripts and CSS in external Files

Mobile Design Pattern: High Performance Widgets: CSS sprites

High Performance Widgets: Optimize your JavaScript

If you miss this one, don’t worry, contribute with great article this month regarding mobile design with a focus on the following areas to be eligible to win the new Nokia N97 mobile computer.

• Theming
• Flash Lite UI Components
• Usability
• Surprise us! (anything related to mobile design)

Read more about Mobile Design Challenge part 2.

Hi,

Last month I was involved writing a set of porting guides for Forum Nokia Wiki, with the help of the following FN Developer Advisors we wrote a collection of eight porting guides: Olympio Cipriano, Raul Fernades Herbster, Maximiliano Firtman, Fran Fitzek, Kamal Jaiswal, Robin Jewsbury, Juarez Juniro, Mehul Jajal, Sunil Kumar, Simon Maspero, Gábor Török, and Kartik Trivedi.

• Porting iPhone web applications to S60 5th Edition
• Porting iPhone native (Objective-C) applications to S60 5th Edition
• Porting iPhone native (Objective-C) applications to Qt for S60
• Porting Android (Java) applications to S60 5th Edition
• Porting Android (Java) applications to Java ME on S60 5th Edition
• Porting Android (Java) applications to Qt for S60
• Porting BlackBerry applications and services to S60 platform
• Porting BlackBerry Storm applications and services to S60 5th Edition

If you read one or more of them, please, let us know your thoughts.

Forum Nokia just published a Nokia WRT extension for Dreamweaver. I’m pretty sure that web developers are going to be mobile developers very soon…
Download Dreamweaver extension.

Yesterday, I received two wonderful gifts from Forum Nokia for my contributions as a member of Forum Nokia Developer Council.

One of them, a Nokia USB charger! I really loved it! Woooww! Thank you Forum Nokia Team! It’s a must have acessory!

I’ve just read a mail from Riku Salminen about the release of the first set of mobile optimized Flash Lite components.
It includes the following UI components:

- Button
- Popup
- List
- Scrollbar

And these data components for S60 Platform services:

- Contacts
- Media

All components comes as installable .mxp files together with instructions and full source code!

For more info:
Flash Lite Components v1.0 beta: http://www.forum.nokia.com/info/sw.nokia.com/id/430ed7e3-dae8-481a-a3d7-e00ff8c1624c/Flash_Lite_Components.html

Guide to Flash Lite Components v1.0: http://www.forum.nokia.com/info/sw.nokia.com/id/332b6e95-b173-4b58-8552-4639795212f9/Guide_to_Flash_Lite_Components.html

Para quem estiver interessado, acabo de encontrar os vídeos do Bossa Conference 2009 no Blip.tv! Com certeza vou assistir novamente a apresentação de Simon Hausmann sobre QtWebkit!

Presentation given during Bossa Conference, held in Porto de Galinhas - Brazil in March 10th 2009.

Abstract:

The WebKit project aims to develop a fast, standard compliant browser engine. Its thin platform abstraction makes it extremely portable. Hence, millions of users browse the web every day via their mobile phones and desktop computers – without even realizing it. The Qt toolkit recaptures the fun in software development by focusing on intuitive APIs and cross-platform availability. A cocktail of these two technologies, QtWebKit, provide an even more powerful framework, without compromising portability or ease of use. Today it is possible for web technologies to seamlessly integrate into applications and web content can interact with Qt components. This presentation introduces the QtWebKit APIs and the underlying engine, including new features in Qt 4.5 as well as a sneak preview into future extensions.

openbossa.blip.tv

New Friends from Nokia Blogs on Vimeo.

Please, go to my Forum Nokia blog for a complete review of the event. (in portuguese)

Hi All,

It’s a long time since my last post. I’ve been involved  in many activities at i2tecnologia from Adobe Flex to Nokia Web Runtime.
In my spare time I have built a GTK/C version of my proof of concept software. It’s called beCloser and has as main focus connect people. This is the first alpha release of the beCloser Marketing tool for Nokia Internet Tablets (N810), for testing purposes only, intended to:

* get more knowledge of maemo development
* engage with open source development
* get feedback from friends and experienced users
* encourage students to start from scratch

My main focus when I started coding beCloser was to connect people around the world with existing mobile technologies. By providing sponsored SMS messages I want to bring mobile communications to a new level.

The beCloser Maemo Edition brings free worldwide sms messages to Nokia Internet Tablets. It’s a proof of concept software! Sorry, I can not guarantee that everything is working fine at this time.

* send free worldwide SMS
* easy debian packaging

For N800 users:
Please, please, help me to know if it is working on N800

[Download Page] 

Do you have an insight on mobile development?
Let’s discuss about it on twitter

http://twitter.com/felipeandrade

Due to my efforts and contributions for Widget development I received a Nokia 5800 XpressMusic device. Again thank you Forum Nokia!

As I have mentioned in my posts I am going to host a new event to show how to use JavaScript to build mobile-web apps, that will be the second edition of the ReMobile group. I am also trying to get more speakers interested to talk at the event. Stay tunned for the upcoming news.

O “Bossa Conference” foi um evento excelente! Lá tive a oportunidade de conheçer um pouco mais sobre desenvolvimento Qt para o Maemo e também tive a oportunidade de falar com o Simon da QtSoftware. Foi impressionante ver o Simon criar um browser apartir do zero com apenas alguns clicks… não estamos falando de um simples browser… o exemplo era capaz de reproduzir conteudo Flash e Java!

Bom, neste post não terei tempo suficiente para falar sobre tudo que aconteceu no evento, fica para um novo.
Pra finalizar segue abaixo mais informações sobre o Qt para S60, instalei no meu N95 e tudo funcionou perfeitamente!
Sobre o release:
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The Qt for S60 “Garden” release is the fourth pre-release from the Qt for S60 porting project. “Garden” is based on the Qt 4.5 codebase and release focus has been on proper GUI integration.

http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=196

Para minha surpresa hoje recebi uma mensagem do Juarez Junior, também Forum Nokia Champion, informando sobre a primeira colocação no concurso sem limites promovido pelo INdT.

Estou feliz com o resultado mas ainda não estou satisfeito, minha maior felicidade será quando aqueles que lêem este blog também chegarem a alcançar resultados iguais aos que eu venho obtendo.

Com muita garra, coragem, esforço e dedicação para seguir em frente qualquer um pode chegar a estes resultados. Um exemplo claro do que acabei de falar é o Rafael Tavares, que com apenas 15 anos se tornou o mais novo Forum Nokia Champion! Parabéns Rafael!! Espero encontrar você em breve!

Para mais detalhes:

http://www.semlimites.blog.br/concurso/
http://www.semlimites.blog.br/resultado-do-1º-concurso-de-aplicativos-nokia/

Antes de qualquer palavra, muito obrigado a todos os participantes do ReMobile! Contamos com aproximadamente trinta e cinco participantes, em um evento que inicialmente seria para no máximo sete pessoas. Foi muito bom compartilhar idéias, estreitar laços de contato com operadoras (Claro) e conheçer um pouco mais sobre o background acadêmico de todos os presentes.
Estou com bastante esperança no sucesso dos próximos eventos, onde espero alcançar um número ainda maior de participantes. Também gostaria de agradecer ao Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia por ceder algumas camisas do Bossa Conference para sorteio!

Link para o slide sobre o Nokia WebRuntime (WRT)

* observem os comentários dos slides
Link para as fotos do evento