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

14Oct/099

Flash vs Qt: The next battle?

Both Qt and Flash platform have something in common: a cross-platform runtime environment.

IMHO, Qt could be a Flash killer in the near future.

Adobe introduced Adobe AIR on March, 2007, to provide a cross-platform runtime environment for building rich Internet applications using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML, or Ajax, that can be deployed as a desktop application and maybe mobile.

While Adobe AIR developers can benefit of using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML, or Ajax skills to build applications that deploy to the desktop, Qt developers benefits from a successful open source framework, with high performance on embedded, mobile and desktop.

There are some rumors of Adobe Air to mobile phones that could bring ActionScript 3.0, the current robust OOP programming language of Flash to mobile phones but the question is: Will Adobe be able to deliver AIR runtime to mobile phones with the same performance achieved by the trolls?

...and...

Will trolls be able to maintain Qt flexible and scalable with so many deliveries (Maemo, Symbian, Windows, ...)?

It's my point of view, please, comment if you have any ideas or feedback about this.

4Mar/083

Adobe Flash Lite 4 or Adobe AIR Mobile?! What is coming?!?!

As part of the today's announce of Microsoft Silverlight for Nokia S60/S40 devices and the announce of Google Gears Mobile for Internet Explorer Mobile on Windows Mobile 5 and 6, I'm thinking about What is coming on Flash Lite 4?! will Adobe replace Flash Lite for AIR/Flex mobile?!

I'm very confused at this time and I'm going to make some questions for Adobe Mobile Team:

What are the plans for the next Flash Mobile platform?
Are you planning to hearing what developer’s would like to see in Flash Lite 4 or Adobe AIR Mobile?
Are there any efforts from Adobe to porting the Flash Lite Player for Google Android?

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

25Jan/080

PAMP: Portable Apache MySQL PHP for Symbian Devices (N95)

From Nokia Labs:

The acronym AMP refers to a solution stack of software, usually free software / open-source software, used to run dynamic Web sites or servers. The original expansion is as follows:

* Apache, the Web server;
* MySQL, the database management system (or database server);
* PHP and sometimes Perl or Python, the programming languages.

The combination of these technologies is used primarily to define a web server infrastructure, define a programming paradigm of developing software, and establish a software distribution package.

Supported Devices

PAMP has been developed using:

- Nokia E90 and
- Nokia N95 8GB

that both have 128MB of RAM, but any S60 3rd Edition device with 128MB of memory should be fine.

PAMP has successfully been installed and tried on N95 and E61i that both have 64MB of RAM and if you primarily just want to run MySQL they and any S60 3rd Edition device with 64MB RAM should be fine.

I also found a great review from Maximiliano Firtman's Forum Nokia Blog. humm.. maybe a day I will see Flex Data Services running on my Nokia Device! I really want this!

16Jan/080

Frame 27: your Flash Lite Game reviewed!

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We (frame27 team) are accepting content to play and summarily review for 2008. I'm also glad to have Mariam Dholkawala on frame27 mobile game reviewer team!

Don't forget that It's time to get your games reviewed by Frame 27 team! It's free!

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!

19Dec/0710

Meet Tamarim-Tracing a new VM for Adobe Flex on Mobile Devices! ActionScript 3 ECMAScript 4!

Edwin Smith announced at google groups an experimental branch of the Tamarin virtual machine. This branch modifies tamarin to use a trace-based optimizer rather than a conventional just-in-time compiler. Trace optimization is a technique which holds promise for optimizing untyped javascript code, and doing so with a small memory footprint.

the branch is available at http://hg.mozilla.org/tamarin-tracing
As Edwin said Tamarin-tracing is a work in progress, however it does build, interpret, trace, passes most regression tests, and does pretty well on small benchmarks! Details about this new open sourced virtual machine can be found bellow:

QVM was written in the Forth programming language because you are create really efficient VMs in 50K of memory runable on just about any device available today. QVM makes AS3 bytecode execute on a majority of devices that consumers already own and is a key part of the future Flash Player and AIR strategies. The open sourcing of QVM will accelerate our device strategy and allow EcmaScript to scale up and down independent of system resources. - Ted Patrick

I will try to contribute! =D

   

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