http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/ugur-kaners-forum-nokia-blog A Forum Nokia Blog ukaner 2009-11-23T16:56:09Z http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/ugur-kaners-forum-nokia-blog/2008/10/10/mobile-development-online <p> Have you ever imagined to develop your mobile applications online? Or to have mobile development tools that work on any web browser on any operating system without any pre/SDK installation? Well, we have such a vision in <a href="http://www.kuneri.net" target="_blank" title="Kuneri">Kuneri</a> and released our first online mobile development tool (mobile development 2.0?) <a href="http://www.swfpack.com" target="_blank" title="SWFPack">SWFPack</a> with a <a href="http://bloggy.kuneri.net/2008/10/09/kuneri-releases-online-mobile-development-tool-swfpack/" target="_blank" title="SWFPack Press Release">press release</a> yesterday. Value proposition is simple; </p> <blockquote> <p> Flash Lite is the emerging mobile technology of Adobe, estimated to reach one billion devices in 2009. Content created for this technology needs to be packaged as installers for distribution. Packaging has been a hassle on Windows, and impossible on other operating systems. Kuneri&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.swfpack.com" target="_blank" title="SWFPack">SWFPack</a> is a novel online service offering a cross platform, zero-install and easy to use Web 2.0 solution. </p> </blockquote> <p> As a Symbian developer, it's been always a hassle for me to setup&nbsp; S60 development environment; not to mention they only work on Windows, which I gave up some time ago as a happy Macbook user. Even after the setup, waiting projects to compile and create a SIS file annoyed me quite much: Compile 2 minutes, make small change change, compile 2 minutes argghh.. </p> <p> Story didn't change much after I moved to Flash Lite and started to develop applications for S60 devices. I had to create SIS installers and doing that is not much different that before; worked only on Windows and took a lot of time to generate the SIS. As Flash Lite, which is a subset of Flash, has a considerable user base on Mac OSX machines, this was a show stopper for many, unless they used virtual machines and double the setup pleasure. </p> <p> <img src="http://bloggy.kuneri.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/flashlite2sis.png" alt="SWFPack" width="326" height="173" align="left" />This summer, we decided to change the story for Flash Lite developers and came up with a crazy idea, which turned out to be real in short time. Now, Flash Lite developers have a <strong>fast</strong> (couple seconds instead of couple minutes), <strong>easy</strong> (web browsing skills), <strong>cheap</strong> (free) and <strong>cross platform</strong> tool which saves time, nerves, money and makes things possible, as <a href="http://www.kuneri.net/content/view/14/26/" target="_blank" title="Kuneri products">most of our other products</a>. <a href="http://www.swfpack.com" target="_blank" title="SWFPack">SWFPack</a> not only generates SIS installers for Symbian, but will be able to create NFL for Series 40, CAB for Windows mobile and add DRM protection to content with the following releases. </p> <p> <a href="http://www.swfpack.com" target="_blank" title="SWFPack">SWFPack</a> is the first milestone on our roadmap, which means we will bring more mobile development tools online. What do you think, would that change anything for mobile application developers? <a href="http://www.swfpack.com" target="_blank" title="SWFPack">SWFPack</a> is a small but exciting step, do you think mobile development could be moved completely to web? Do you know any other tool similar to that and how is their story? </p> Enterprise Flash S60 2008-10-10T11:14:06Z ukaner http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/ugur-kaners-forum-nokia-blog/2008/08/31/turn-your-s60-device-into-a-web-sms-interface <p> <a href="http://www.kuneri.net" target="_blank" title="Kuneri">We</a> have been investigating many times how to add SMS support to our web services, but things looked quite complicated and expensive, each time we ended up changing our mind. But thanks to the post of the guys at <a href="http://www.arcticstartup.com/2008/08/29/fromsms-offers-free-mobile-gateway/" target="_blank" title="Arctic Startup">Arctic Startup</a>, now we know a nice, easy and <u>free</u> way to add SMS support to any web service using an S60 device and very simple logic: <a href="http://www.fromsms.net/index_en.htm#" target="_blank" title="FromSMS">FromSMS</a> from an Estonian startup <a href="http://www.fromdistance.com/includer.php?cat=1&amp;lang=1" target="_blank" title="From Distance">FromDistance</a>. </p> <blockquote> <div id="main_left"> When your web application needs to send and/or receive SMS messages cost-efficiently, FromSMS is the solution for you. FromSMS offers a simple HTTPS POST interface for sending of SMS messages - all you need is an S60 mobile device with <strong>free</strong> FromSMS Client installed. </div> </blockquote> <div> <a href="http://www.fromsms.net/index_en.htm#" target="_blank" title="FromSMS">FromSMS</a> supports multiple virtual device support, in case your S60 device, internet connection or something else start to suck. This is not free of charge, however would worth the price as reliability in return. </div> <div> &nbsp; </div> <div> We will check this out and write our experience. Basically looks like what we need is an unlimited SMS plan, an S60 device plugged in to charge, a WLAN network and an account on the service. But we should investigate this more in details and test the security, reliability and usability of this service. </div> <div> &nbsp; </div> <div> <img src="http://bloggy.kuneri.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/fromsms_schema3.png" alt="From SMS" width="588" height="226" align="middle" /> </div> <div> &nbsp; </div> <div> I also posted this on <a href="http://bloggy.kuneri.net/2008/08/31/turn-your-s60-device-into-a-web-sms-interface/" target="_blank" title="Kuneri Bloggy">our blog</a>, would be glad to hear your ideas and experience if you somehow have the chance to try it before us, or already using it. <br /> </div> <div> &nbsp; </div> Business Opportunities/Services Enterprise Messaging S60 2008-08-31T12:16:21Z ukaner