As the market for UIQ 3 applications is growing, Sony Ericsson Developer World decided to additionaly help developers by preparing the new UIQ 3 tutorial series. The first article is already online, and explains general information about the platform. Among the covered topics are: Symbian coding idioms and conventions UIQ UI configurations Application framework Current…
UIQ Open ends soon
We’ve already talked about it, but as we want to see more new, cool apps featured on the UIQ 3 platform, it’s not bad to repeat. Especially when we’re approaching the deadline. Anyway… Developers should know that UIQ Technologies’ UIQ Open competition ends on February 18, 2007. The UIQ 3 software developers can submit their…
Sony Ericsson Developer World: 2006 in review
Another year is now behind and Mikael Nerde, Head of Sony Ericsson Developer World, shares his thoughts on 2006 and his excitement about the plans for 2007. In an interesting article, aside from other things Mikael also discusses the UIQ 3 platform. He sees it as a very strategic for Sony Ericsson, and looks forward…
Nokia Web Browser design guide
Last month we posted information about Forum Nokia’s document – S60 Web Browser product description. Now they started the guide titled “The Nokia Web Browser – Delivering the full Web experience”, which is set to bring us the series of articles on the subject. The first one is already live, and deals with browser features…
Ruby for Symbian reaches UIQ
Ruby, a reflective, object-oriented programming language, which steadily gains momentum thanks to the open-source Rails framework, has been released for the UIQ 3 platform. The Symbian POC module will be built in several phases to ensure it evolves according to Ruby developers requirements. In this update the POC library has been extended with simple rendering…
Porting to UIQ 3 from S60
NewLC has authored the guide for UIQ Technology, describing the port of a simple multiview application from S60 2nd Edition or 3rd Edition to the UIQ 3 platform. The document and the application is kept as simple as possible to focus on the core differences, and the full source code of the three versions is…
PyS60 1.3.17 released
Python for S60 has been updated. The new, version 1.3.17 brings following features: Addition of Doc for gles and glcanvas modules for OpenGL ES New functions start_finder() and stop_finder() for starting and ending the camera viewfinder appuifw.layout function returning as a tuple the size and the position of the requested layout id like EBatteryPane Activity…
POSIX libraries on Symbian OS
At the official opening event of its Beijing office, Symbian Ltd today announced the introduction of POSIX libraries on Symbian OS, which will significantly reduce the effort required to migrate existing desktop and server components, and mobile applications from other platforms, onto Symbian OS. The move will help broaden and deepen application development for Symbian…
Contribute to MIDP 3.0 specification
The MIDP 3.0 specification (JSR-271) has reached the stage of early draft preview and now they are asking developers to provide feedback. The review period closes on February 5th 2007, so now it is time to read through the spec and let your voice to be heard. In his post on Forum Nokia Blogs, Hartti…
MobiForms 3.1 released
MobiForms, a rapid application development tool for building Java based mobile applications for almost any kind of mobile computer or PDA including Symbian-based smartphones and “multimedia computers”, reached the version 3.1. The new version brings an important enhancement for Windows Mobile, Pocket PC and Windows CE developers called Deployment Wizard, that allows developers to manage…