Posts Tagged ‘Forum Nokia’

Nokia WRT Extension now available for Adobe Dreamweaver and Visual Studio

Posted 10 Jun 2009 — by Dale
Category Development, Mobile

Forum Nokia have been doing a lot of great work with tooling for their WRT (Web Runtime) widget platform over the past year or so. I think it’s important to provide web developers (who are the main target audience for growing the WRT dev community) to be able to use common tools when building widgets for the web, devices, etc. Following on from their Aptana plug-in, you can now also extend Adobe Dreamweaver and Microsoft Visual Studio to fast-track widget development.

I’ve been playing around with the Dreamweaver extension, and I have to say that they’ve done a very impressive job with integrating development, testing and deployment into the Dreamweaver environment. I’ll hopefully be getting to do some WRT/Flash Lite development soon, and will be able to give you all a better review of the DW extension then. Well done Forum Nokia!

And don’t forget, once you’ve built your rockin’ WRT widget, you can publish it to the Ovi Store for distribution!

Moket joins Forum Nokia Launchpad program

Posted 04 May 2009 — by Dale
Category Business, Moket

Forum Nokia LaunchpadMoket has had a very healthy relationship with Nokia right from the ealry years of Flash Lite, and I was pleased to extend this with our joining the Forum Nokia Launchpad program. Launchpad is a program that aims to give developers and companies further access to Nokia knowledge, expertise and business development opportunities.

This all comes off the back of Moket being added to the Innovation Series last year, and becoming a Premium Publisher for the Ovi store in 2009. We’re hoping that Launchpad will continue to build and strengthen the Flash mobile ecosystem, with the net result being more market opportunities for everyone.

Nokia WRT Aptana Plug-in now available

Posted 16 Feb 2009 — by Dale
Category Development, Mobile


Nokia have released the 1.0 version of their Web Runtime Widget plug-on for the Aptana authoring IDE. Nokia WRT widgets are light-weight web applications designed with common technologies (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Ajax, and even Flash) which can be distributed and installed like native mobile applications.

Nokia have been looking to strengthen the tool set and workflow for web developers to take their existing skills and start creating these WRT widgets, and so have been looking at ways to engage the developer community through the tools they already use. Aptana is a commonly used authoring environment for creating Ajax-based web applications, and being based on Eclipse it was a good first target in this strategy. Well done to the Nokia team!

Here are some useful links to help you get started: