Maximiliano Firtman's Forum Nokia Blog

Maximiliano Firtman's Forum Nokia Blog http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/maximiliano-firtmans-forum-nokia-blog I'm a mobile enthusiast thinking in mobile life. There is still place for innovation in services, games and applications. What are you waiting for? (En español todavía hay más oportunidades) firt 2009-11-23T20:01:04Z Mobile Widgets Conference - July in Silicon Valley http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/maximiliano-firtmans-forum-nokia-blog/2009/07/08/mobile-widgets-conference-oreilly Hi, <img src="http://www.insidemobilecon.com/downloads/SpeakerBadges.png" align="right" />If anyone is near San Jose, California this month, I will be speaking at InsideMobile Conference organized by O'Reilly and 360 Conferences. My session will be Mobile Widget Development and it will cover WRT Widgets for Symbian, migration from/to other platforms and OVI Store publication. "Today is possible to create mobile offline (and installed) applications using web-related technologies (XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, Flash) and additional APIs. WRT for Nokia-Symbian, WebUI for Motorola, WebOS for Palm Pre, online/offline Webapps for iPhone 3.0, widgets for BlackBerry, and other mobile widget platforms. There is also a new hybrid paradigm using the best of the web technologies and a native development, like the PhoneGap project. What can we do using this technology? what are the differences between platforms? Can we distribute them in the Application Stores? What compatibility do we have with web standards? What kind of applications are best-suited for this platforms? How to access location, contacts, accelerometer, SMS, home screen and Internet for each platform? What about security and privacy of my code?" To see full schedule, other sessions information and registration details look at the official sites: <a href="http://www.insidemobilecon.com" target="_blank">www.insidemobilecon.com</a> or <a href="http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/training.oreilly.com/insidemobile " target="_blank">training.oreilly.com/insidemobile </a> Hope to see some of you there. Drop me a line if you are near! I will be arriving to USA on July, 24th.   Browsing Event Flash S60 2009-07-08T21:07:05Z firt A Flash Lite alternative in Java ME? http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/maximiliano-firtmans-forum-nokia-blog/2006/10/31/a-flash-lite-alternative-in-java-me Sun Microsystems and Laszlo Systems, announced the code name Orbit Project. This project will allow open source framework OpenLaszlo to generate Java ME midlets without Java programming. Will it be the Flash alternative in Java platform for mobiles? OpenLaszlo is an open source framework to develop Rich Internet Applications using a declarative XML file (called LZX) and JavaScript language (ECMAScript, similar to ActionScript too). Up to the last stable version (3.3), this framework compile to Flash SWF format for the web. Next version, OpenLaszlo 4.0 "Legals", in preview version 4 up today, can export the same project to other "engines", like AJAX-DHTML. Orbit will add support to compile to Java ME applications (JAD & JAR?). I've worked with OpenLaszlo, so I already know the platform... I'm teaching this platform in presencial and eLearning way (in Spanish, I'm sorry). It's flexible, free, it can work over any web technology, it can make "less-code" cool animations and effects easily, and it reads XML and bind the data to visual controls. By the other side, there aren't books available about this platform, help files are a bit confusing sometimes and the only IDE available is an Eclipse plugin with too many bugs, without advanced visual or drag & drop features.   After the announcement, we have many question unanswered, like: will it compile MIDP 2.0 applications? Will it need any API like SVG in the phone? What Laszlo features will be available in the Java ME runtime? They announced that in december the first working demo will be available. "Now with further extension to support the Java ME platform, OpenLaszlo will offer an unprecedented level of development portability and flexibility across a wide variety of Java technology-based phones, television set-top boxes, and other connected devices. Support for OpenLaszlo applications further enhances one of the key strengths of the Java platform – the ability to support development environments and authoring tools targeting a broad spectrum of developer skills and preferences.", OpenLaszlo team said. We know that Flash is a powerful Java competitor in mobile multimedia applications development and that's because Java needs to evolve. I think that Sun found a solution to offer rapid rich and multimedia application development easier over Java ME platform.   If OpenLaszlo can offer a better IDE to work and more organized documentation in the future, it can be an alternative to Flash Lite. What do you think?   For more information, visit <a href="http://www.openlaszlo.org/orbit">www.openlaszlo.org/orbit</a> Flash General Java 2006-10-31T22:49:55Z firt Search Engine for Mobile Developers http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/maximiliano-firtmans-forum-nokia-blog/2006/10/29/search-engine-for-mobile-developers I've just published a new site, a mobile development search engine. The idea is that you can make a search restricted only to sites that has information about Java ME, Symbian, Flash Lite, and other mobile technologies.   The site is powered by Google (Custom Search), so you are searching inside Google, but only in some sites, as Forum Nokia, Sun, Adobe and some other blogs and sites.    The URL is <a href="http://www.mobiledevsearch.com">www.mobiledevsearch.com</a> and I'm inviting all mobile developers to suggest sites to add to the search engine. You can suggest blogs, user groups, forums, etc. in the site or leaving a comment on this post. We can have more accurate results when we are looking for mobile code, advices, documentation and samples.   I'll add more features and improvements later, cataloging the results in other way, by site, by platform, and other things. If you want to collaborate in a more intensive way, I can invite you to be a collaborator. With your Google Account, you can add and label new sites to the search engine. Flash Java Symbian C++ 2006-10-29T06:19:08Z firt Thinking in SVG http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/maximiliano-firtmans-forum-nokia-blog/2006/05/31/thinking-in-svg Hi and welcome to my blog. I hope we can have interesting discussions about mobile technologies, future improvements, tips and common problems that a mobile developer have . I'm a professor, book writer and developer in Java ME and other mobile technologies. I'm supporting spanish-speakers too, so "bienvenidos".   During May, I was visiting San Francisco and I had the opportunity to be in <a href="http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf">JavaOne 2006</a>. I assisted to many Java ME sessions and some of them were intesting. The most powerful and useful feature that any mobile UI designer/programmer I saw on JavaOne was the future of SVG (Standard Vector Graphics) in Java ME. We have the JSR-226 to use SVG on our Java ME developments, but the thing is that SVG support will change the way we are thinking the UI in mobile games and apps. We can now make really cool graphic interfaces, with animation support and hotspot zones (we can replace a bored CLDC Form). And it is very easy to create SVG files in many graphic software (like Corel Draw) and to import in our projects. We can handle SVG events in Java too. NetBeans 5.5 with Mobility Pack 5.5 brings us a new experience in SVG, supporting SVG screens in the flow designer, DOM (Document Object Model) manipulation inside the SVG and (perhaps the most important thing) the possibility to compile an alternative version of the UI converting automatically the SVG in PNG for different screen sizes. Just try the beta!   I hope we can have this feature in Carbide.j... (by the way, did you try Carbide.j?)   Will SVG support in mobile phones stop Adobe Flash Lite? mmm...  Adobe is currently supporting SVG too in its tools. Flash Java 2006-05-31T06:59:57Z firt