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- Develop mobile apps using standard web technologies
- Quickly add context and web services to your apps
- Freedom to develop apps your way
Web Runtime (WRT) allows you to develop apps for Nokia mobile devices using standard web technologies (HTML, JS, CSS).
Use your web design skills to create amazing user experiences. Deliver dynamic and visually attractive user interfaces with HTML and CSS. Add impact with multimedia or video streaming, by embedding Flash in your WRT Widget. You have the freedom to develop the way you want.
Video case study
click here to watch how the developers at Transpond used Nokia Web Runtime
Download WRT Tools Plug-ins
You can use these plug-ins to create, edit, test, validate, package, and deploy widgets, all from within your favourite web-development tool.
Street Magic: See A Card
David Blaine, Magician and Endurance Artist ™, began his career performing street magic -- up close and personal card effects done to small groups of people on the streets. Now, you can become a street magician with one of Blaine's favorite card effects from his groundbreaking TV special, Street Magic. "See A Card" is one of the most difficult card effects to perform in person. With the precision of this app, step into David Blaine's world. The payoff is always amazing.
Pixelpipe for Share Online
Consumers can connect their Nokia Share Online account to more than 95 services across the social web with Pixelpipe. This utility allows individuals to easily distribute photos, video, audio, and files to popular social networks, micro-blogs, photo/video and blog services, including: Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, WordPress and much more.
LP33.TV: On-Demand Music Videos
LP33.TV is a free on-demand widget available in Ovi Store that features music videos and interviews with the latest bands, as well as music culture and lifestyle content. LP33.TV allows consumers to watch videos from featured channels and create playlists.
Accuweather.com Widget
With this free Web Runtime widget for Nokia N97 devices, consumers have instant access to the following content: current conditions and severe weather risk for the next 6 hours, rain and snow totals for the next 5 days, temperature and sky conditions for the next 15 hours; 10 days and nights of forecasts; 15 hours of hourly forecast information; a 15-day forecast, high temperature, 9 stored locations, low temperature, daytime high wind speed; and radar (U.S. locations only).
MagicBall Widget
Remember the Magic 8-Ball? This mobile version from Tong Ren is free for consumers in Ovi Store, and can be used (just for fun) to seek on-the-spot advice about any question imaginable.
Street Fever
This free – and popular – theme in Ovi Store for use on Nokia Symbian touch-enabled devices, created by Shanghai Jibiao Info Tech Co., Ltd., features a vivid animation sequence that changes colours every 10 minutes.
Tic Tac Toe - Relax
This version of the classic "Tic Tac Toe" game from XIM offers rich and relaxing graphics with both 3x3 and 6x6 game-play options. The game is available in 1 or 2 player modes, and is great for having fun with friends and kids!
Metro News Widget
Consumers with the Metro widget on their Nokia Symbian device can keep up to date with the latest news, sports, columns, and blogs. The widget has all the content from the latest Metro papers in the following countries: France, Italy, The Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Mexico and United States. Additionally, Metro readers can share news with friends using Facebook or Twitter.
Nokia Music Explorer
Nokia Music Explorer lets you quickly search the Music Store and keep track of the Top 5 tracks in your favourite genre and quickly gain access to exclusive offers and features on your touch enabled Nokia device. Place the widget on your N97 home screen and be the first to see the latest tracks.
Web Runtime Curriculum (Beta)
This beta training set consists of nine Web Runtime development lectures and lab exercises. The training set has two parts: basic and advanced. The basic set helps you get started with WRT development, and the advanced set takes the development further.
Web Developer's Library
The Web Developer's Library is an information package for developers wishing to create Web Runtime (WRT) widgets for Symbian Devices and web pages for the Web Browser for Symbian. The library includes introductory, getting started, design, user experience, implementation, and API-level information about WRT widgets, as well as examples of creating WRT widgets.
Web Runtime: FNReader Widget Example
The FNReader Widget Example is a simple WRT application for RSS feed reading. It demonstrates how to use the Online/Offline API, enable the home screen view, and use the Nokia Mobile Web Templates in a WRT widget.
News and events
Nokia Developer News | Create Cool Apps – Fast! -- with Ovi App Wizard (You Could Win $$)
by jasonblack 28 July 2010
Would you like to create professional-looking mobile applications in mere minutes, then distribute them to millions of consumers around the world through Ovi Store? If so, then the new Ovi App Wizard is for you.
Nokia Developer News | Learn to Design and Optimise Websites for Cross-Platforms
by jasonblack 05 May 2010
Speed website loading times on mobile devices by compressing, combining, and caching data. Change CSS dynamically for wider and narrower screens. Don’t force users to enter long textual data. These are just some of the many tips included in a new Forum Nokia document that shows developers how to design and optimise websites for Maemo, iPhone, Android, and S60/Symbian devices.
Nokia Developer News | What Happened at Maemo Developer Day? Find Out
by jasonblack 23 February 2010
Some 150 developers from 19 universities and 52 companies gathered in Copenhagen last November to learn about the Nokia N900 mobile computer and the Maemo platform. They discussed the forthcoming Maemo 6, Qt 4.6 for Maemo 6, Nokia Web Runtime (WRT) for Maemo 6, and much more.
Highlights
Development Shortcuts
A set of really easy to use tools is available for you to jump-start your mobile app development. Choose from an RSS-feed
based widget creating tool, named Ovi app wizard, to a set of pre-built templates in Nokia tutorials Flash page. If customisation
is important, check out the pre-built UI components from the jQuery-based Guarana UI library.
Ovi app wizard
Nokia tutorials on Flash
Customisation: Guarana UI Library
Mobile Web Browsing
Nokia devices provide optimal web browsing solutions for every price point. Nokia web browsers on Maemo, Symbian and Series
40 high end devices build on industry leading, open source Web browser engines Mozilla Gecko and WebKit delivering the full
Internet experience. Series 40 lite browser with xhtml support brings compelling internet experience to entry level devices.
Nokia also leads the way in embedding Flash content in the browser and have shipped more the 400 million devices with Flash
technology
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Resources for advanced WRT developers
Ready for more? There is plenty more to do to make your application stand out. Read about creating great user experiences
with rich Internet applications and packaging Flash content in widgets. Join our community to ask questions or contribute to WRT development on the Forum Nokia Discussion Boards and Forum Nokia Wiki.
Device capabilities: Nokia Platform Services 2.0
Device capabilities: APIBridge
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