As an Assistant Professor, I'm teaching Symbian OS at the University of Applied Sciences in Hagenberg, Austria. My company "Mopius" is developing mobile software with a special focus on Symbian OS.
A Case-Study of Porting Widgets to S60
mopius | 11 October, 2007 21:29
With data transfer charges for mobile devices finally going down, mobile widgets might possibly be the next big thing to conquer the mobile phone software and at the same time the attention of the users.
As you might know, Nokia has just released the beta-SDK supporting widgets for the upcoming S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 2. This allows more seamless integration with the mobile phone than their previous Java ME-based WidSets-software.
Before this was published, an early beta had already been part of the S60 3rd Edition FP2 Beta-SDK for MIDP. This SDK supports the Web Run-Time environment for developing and testing widgets in the emulator, but does not include any further documentation.
Christian Kaar from the University of Applied Sciences in Hagenberg tested the new engine and tried to port several Apple Dashboard widgets to the S60 engine.
Even though Nokia has been a few days too fast for us with publishing their official documentation, his technical report is still very interesting to read. After an overview of widget technology, he included a case-study of porting two widgets, whereas the official documentation only points out the general issues.
You can download and read the technical report at symbianresources.com.
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| The case study contains a description of the solved issues when porting the "Heise News"-widget to the S60 Web Runtime. |
Before this was published, an early beta had already been part of the S60 3rd Edition FP2 Beta-SDK for MIDP. This SDK supports the Web Run-Time environment for developing and testing widgets in the emulator, but does not include any further documentation.
Christian Kaar from the University of Applied Sciences in Hagenberg tested the new engine and tried to port several Apple Dashboard widgets to the S60 engine.
Even though Nokia has been a few days too fast for us with publishing their official documentation, his technical report is still very interesting to read. After an overview of widget technology, he included a case-study of porting two widgets, whereas the official documentation only points out the general issues.
You can download and read the technical report at symbianresources.com.
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