Felipe Andrade – Mobile Developer Cross-platform development: WRT | Flash Lite | Python | Symbian | Qt | Maemo | Meego

1Dec/092

Social 1 no Android Market: Parceria entre a i2tecnologia e o JC

É com grande prazer que compartilho mais esta nova parceria entre a i2tecnologia e o JC.

Notícias em primeira mão, únicas, exclusivas. É com base nestes conceitos que nasce o Social 1. O novo produto do JC Online traz, em tempo real, os maiores acontecimentos da sociedade pernambucana com atualizações por meio das principais mídias sociais como Twitter, Orkut, Facebook e Flickr. Ainda está adaptado às plataformas do iPhone e Android. A ideia do novo blog do portal é atender a um público diferenciado e possibilitar o acesso em qualquer lugar e a qualquer hora.

Toda equipe do Social 1 usará smartphones Motorola Dext que possibilitarão o envio de informações para o blog nas mais diversas plataformas.

Ler a matéria completa no Jc.

Social 1 no MotoDext (Android powered)

Social 1 no MotoDext (Android powered)

Social 1 no MotoDext (Android powered)

Social 1 no MotoDext (Android powered)

26Jun/090

HTC Hero: The first Android device with Flash

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
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12Jun/090

Forum Nokia Wiki: Porting guides to S60 5th Edition and Qt

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.

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

27Jan/090

Multi-Touch Support on T-Mobile G1

Graças a comunidade Open Source, especialmente Luke Hutchison, agora o G1 tem suporte a Multi-touch.
Apesar de ser uma prova de conceito, o desempenho e a navegação são realmente impressionantes. Excelente trabalho!
Leia mais.

26Jan/090

Google Android Virus?!

Will be the first evidence of virus on Android platform?!

Read More at Geek.com

16Jan/090

Developer Wishlist: Nokia Maps API

I was wondering how great is use Google Maps on web and mobile. We use it to develop web applications and small prototypes for cellphones. It would be great if Nokia decides to apply the same concept to Nokia Maps.

I'm not trying to bother Nokia but in my stupid opinion, Nokia holds the best navigation guide (Nokia Maps), the leading global provider of digital map data, a high skilled team why not extend their presence on mobile to web.

Nowadays there are a lot of runtimes on Nokia devices but I can't see any intent to provide public APIs to software developers. Why rework on the wheel if it's already made.

It would be very great to have an API to use digital vector data provided by Navteq and also public APIs from Nokia Maps to build a map module on web and mobile applications. I know that there are a lot of security and business issues behind it but it would be very great.

Turn your web, mobile . Turn your mobile, web. Just my two cents :)

8Jan/091

Predictions for the following years #2: The Services War

The downturn may mean that investors may want to get the return of the investment faster than ever. It can be a serious impact to companies investing only to build communities and that are not converting communities to real money yet.

Companies like Nokia through huge investment are becoming web services providers but there are some remaining things to take care.

In my point of view convergent services and products are the key factor of success for the following years, services that can be used on embedded, cellphones, netbooks, notebooks, anywhere through APIs... but obviously how to monetize from communities and services is the a must to any company.

Web and Mobile advertising promises to grow a lot in 2009 and also in the following years. Google can teach us this interesting lesson from one of Google's mantra, "focus on user". Give to users what they want. Give to users APIs, Maps, Search, SO, SDKs and let them choose what to do with that.

Another interesting history is from the number one plumber in a town of about 40,000. He built $50.00 gift cards on heavy paper stock all of them with code numbers. The next thing He did was go door to door and meet people one at a time. As of right now He is the number one plumber in his town.

So what's the motivation to provide free services? Attract consumers! Take a look at few characteristics at Google Maps and Android together:

1. Developers can create web and mobile applications based on Google Maps at no extra cost
2. Developers have APIs, Docs, Samples at no cost
3. Developers can monetize building applications for just $25 USD a year

You can think: "-They are crazy. They don't have a business model". You are wrong. They have a very solid business model. Give to developers what they want and wait to attract them.

26Dec/080

Predictions for the following years: will SMS die?!

While thinking about what happened this year when iPhone 3G came to the market and changed the rules of the internet usage on mobile phones I was forced to search about this issue.

Will the SMS really die? I'm not sure but the answer is "probably". There are some interesting articles and comments discussing it, from Bernardo Carvalho and other from VentureBeat.

In my point of view, as the internet on mobile is growing and services like twitter and gmail are coming faster to mobile devices, the sms service will be replaced for a simple email or other microblogging services like twitter, since users will be able to see theirs inbox in real-time like an SMS message that raises the inbox. Take a look at the following pictures and please share your thoughts. I've made the following pictures to explain what i am feeling now, something like "The evolution of SMS services."

Share your thoughts on Linkedin Answers
http://www.linkedin.com/answers/technology/blogging/TCH_BLG/389232-9016422 

Symbian

Will SMS die

Twitter on mobile

27Apr/080

Flyer Framework runs on almost any OS

Flyer For Maemo
Hello readers, sorry for the long time without posting ... Long short story ... but... Let's to the party!

I am very glad to share our latest news in open source development. You should know that Flyer was primarily built to extend mobile technologies... but... along the development we've discovered the truly power of our platform.

Flyer Framework runs on almost any OS (Symbian, Linux, Windows, Mac OS) that supports both Flash Player and Python. Not all features can be included for every platform at the moment but we are working to do that!

I uploaded a video showing the framework working on Maemo (Linux 2.6.21) on youtube. You can also get access to a short piece of FFM source code at google code page. As soon as I finish the docs I will publish the Flyer source code for Symbian S60.

13Feb/080

LG to roll out Android phone by early 2009

BARCELONA (Reuters) - LG Electronics plans to start selling a phone model running on Android, the highly anticipated mobile phone operating system, at the start of next year at the latest, a senior official said.

"We will bring it out late in 2008 or early 2009," Chang Ma, LG's vice president for marketing strategy told Reuters in an interview at the Mobile World Congress trade show.

LG is part of a group of about 30 companies that said they would support Google's operating system, which is based on Linux, an open-source software platform.

Service provider Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile and Taiwanese phone maker High Tech Computer have both said they plan to sell phones based on Android this year.

(Reporting by Tarmo Virki; editing by Sue Thomas)

via Reuters

5Feb/080

How to protect Flash Lite content with OMA DRM 1.0

Developers, content providers, and operators are all involved in protecting mobile content. Digital Right Management (DRM) is an important issue in the mobile world and it is a complex environment to work with. Open Mobile Alliance DRM (OMA DRM) can be used to protect Flash Lite content. OMA DRM has two specifications 1.0 and 2.0. Both DRM solve the same problem – protecting content. I will briefly explain the differences in OMA DRM 1.0 and OMA DRM 2.0 and how to apply OMA DRM 1.0 Forward Lock to Flash Lite content. Note that this is not an easy topic and it is important to understand all entities involved in the process of protecting content.

Alessandro, thanks for sharing!

5Feb/080

flashlite4nokia.com

My friend Alessandro started a new blog dedicated on Flash Lite for Nokia devices: Flashlite4Nokia

Thanks Alessandro!

1Feb/080

Skyfire browser for Mobile supports Flash 9 Content

I just found a new mobile browser called SkyFire. It supports embedded content such as Flash 9, QuickTime, Java and more. It claims that its software offers desktop browsing speeds on a handheld, with no restrictions over media content display and accessibility.
The Skyfire private beta will initially support Windows Mobile phones in the U.S. In the coming months, they will introduce a version for Symbian phones. Other phone platforms and geographies are on the roadmap too.
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31Jan/080

Mobile Advertising Book – Supercharge Your Brand in the Exploding Wireless Market

Mobile advertising is the stuff of which great cocktail party conversations are made. Some research houses are telling us to expect a $12 billion market by 2011. There's plenty of buzz surrounding mobile advertising. The next step is transforming that buzz into real business.

Mobile Advertising—Supercharge Your Brand in the Exploding Wireless Market is about assessing the market opportunity and understanding its challenges and issues so as to make money and create long- term value with mobile advertising.

Chetan, Joe, and Victor will be discussing the intricacies of the mobile advertising industry and discuss the following topics:

· Development and history of mobile advertising

· Effects of the Internet and consumer control

· Metrics and measurements for advertising success

· Complexities, structural deficiencies, and barriers

· Business models for successful implementation

· Case studies covering current practice around the world

· Technology problems and practical solutions

· The consumer experience and the future of mobile advertising

Chetan Sharma is President of Chetan Sharma Consulting and a leading strategist and advisor to influential technology and media brands worldwide.

Joe Herzog is Senior Director of Local Search Products at Infospace, Inc., a leading mobile search, media, and technology company.

Victor Melfi is Chief Strategy Officer at Voicebox Technologies and an expert in technology strategy, direct marketing, and advertising.

March 19th 2008

5:30-6:15
Registration, Networking, Food

6:15-7:15
Book Presentation and Q&A (Chetan, Joe, Victor)

7:15-8:15
Panel Discussion (Brian, Omar, Ujjal)

8:15-9:00
Networking and more Q&A

Where (Parking free on campus after 4:00pm)

Oak West Hall,
Tresidder Memorial Students Union,
459 Lagunita Drive

Stanford University
Stanford CA - 94305

24Dec/070

Why continue?! Because of you! Happy Holidays!

Before the end of year I've already been thinking about the next steps to follow. A great new year is coming in our window... more innovations are coming.. more motivations are helping us to follow ahead... there is no time to stop, there is no way to go back, it's time to reflect and learn the past lessons. It's time to Get up! Stand up! There is a new year coming!

Happy Holidays! Be happy!

15Nov/071

Is Google’s Android going to kill Java ME?!

Google's Android SDK introduces a new Virtual Machine called Dalvik wich executes Java programs on Android phones. Dalvik is a Google's Virtual Machine based on Java SE packages, google's own http server to speed up search results, junit, their own user inteface and adroid packages for telephony, power management and SMS.

so how google launched your own Virtual Machine able to launch Java applications and make it open source routing around Sun's IP-based licesing restrictions? Dalvik just compiles Java code into Java bytecodes and utilizing the dx tool (included on Android SDK) converts Java bytecodes into Dalvik bytecode, so instead of executing the .class files, Dalvik VM executes the .dex files. For a full explanation on this read the Stefano's Linotype.

Becoming a standard Google's VM will be able to overcome the lacks of Java ME and bureaucracy from JSR but it is not too near because ~72% of mobile phones are running Symbian OS and it supports Java ME.

Corrections:

Dalvik is not a Java Virtual Machin.Dalvik just compiles Java code into Java bytecodes and utilizing the dx tool (included on Android SDK) converts Java bytecodes into Dalvik bytecode.

13Nov/073

Android Developer Challenge: $10 million in awards

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Cool apps that surprise and delight mobile users, built by developers like you, will be a huge part of the Android vision. To support you in your efforts, Google has launched the Android Developer Challenge, which will provide $10 million in awards -- no strings attached -- for great mobile apps built on the Android platform.
How It Works

The award money will be distributed equally between two Android Developer Challenges:

* Android Developer Challenge I: We will accept submissions from January 2 through March 3, 2008
* Android Developer Challenge II: This part will launch after the first handsets built on the platform become available in the second half of 2008

In the Android Developer Challenge I, the 50 most promising entries received by March 3 will each receive a $25,000 award to fund further development. Those selected will then be eligible for even greater recognition via ten $275,000 awards and ten $100,000 awards.

hummmm... I will try! =D

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