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N900 dual-booting Maemo and Android
Posted 25 Jan 2010 — by Dale
Category Development, Mobile, Technology
Category Development, Mobile, Technology
Via Engadget: I’ve always admired developers who can delve right to the very core of devices and hack them to do their bidding. I’m not THAT technically capable myself, but love to see the results as sometimes, it pushes the actual industry into new directions that it might not have otherwise explored.
This may not be one of those moments, but geez I thought it was cool – a hack of the increasingly-popular Nokia N900 smartphone to run the default Maemo operating system from the internal device storage, and Android from a partition on the SD card.
In a week where Apples closed mobile platform is likely to get another shot in the arm, this is a refreshing post to remind us of the power of open platforms and the way they can change the game for developers.
New Training Video – Accessing the Camera using Nokia API Bridge
Posted 03 Dec 2009 — by Dale
Category Development, Mobile, Training
Category Development, Mobile, Training
A new video has been added to the “Developing with Flash Lite” series – “Accessing the Camera using Nokia API Bridge“.
Nokia have begun to open up the API Bridge used by WRT widgets to Flash Lite developers, giving them native ActionScript classes to access hardware APIs for the camera, sound recording, and file upload. In this episode we dive into a demo of how to access the camera using ActionScript and Nokia’s API Bridge.
Download the demo files from here and the API Bridge class files and documentation here.
New Nokia APIBridge for extending Flash Lite applications on S60
Posted 28 Nov 2009 — by Dale
Category Development, Mobile
Category Development, Mobile
Robert Burdick has published some documentation for developers wanting to use the new Flash Lite API Bridge Interface for their Flash Lite or WRT applications.
The two APIs that are available to Flash Lite developers (the rest apply to Web Runtime widgets) are:
- File Upload: This function allows for the upload of a file to a web server using a multipart/form-data POST request.
- New File Service: This function allows Flash Lite applications to embed native applications in order to capture images, videos, and audio.
You’re probably thinking, “Isn’t this what KuneriLite has been doing all this time?”, and the answer would be – basically yes. I’m hoping to get some more info around this solution and post some more feedback shortly, but from looking at it right now and not having tested it out yet, I’d say it’s not a bad way to go for ActionScript guys who don’t want to get into using plug-ins, etc. That being said, I don’t know the road-map for how many more features APIBridge might include in the future. Starting with these two, they have a fair way to go before they match the features that Kuneri offer. But going on what they’ve done with Platform Services (and this is basically following in a very similar model to that solution), Nokia will be following this initial launch up with more features in the future.
New Training Video – Platform Services and the Accelerometer
Posted 12 Nov 2009 — by Dale
Category Development, Mobile, Training
Category Development, Mobile, Training
A new video has just been added to the Developing with Flash Lite series – Platform Services and the Accelerometer.
Interacting with an application through the in-built accelerometer adds a dimension of usability that is deeply linked with the physical world – you move your device, the application responds accordingly. In this episode we’ll look at adding accelerometer access to your Flash mobile application using Nokia’s Platform Services.
