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MobileMonday Italy: The User Applications
November 23, 2009
Rome
Nokia Developer Days in South Africa
December 01, 2009
Johannesburg, South Africa
Forum Nokia Developer Conference ’09, India
December 07, 2009
Bangalore, India
LeWeb
December 09, 2009
Paris
Web Runtime Coding With Aptana WRT Plug-in
December 09, 2009
9am New York | 2pm London | 4pm Helsinki

Web Runtime: BetaLabsWidget Example
This web widget application demonstrates a thin client that connects to Nokia Beta Labs using its HTTP API and Guarana UI library components.

Layout Samples for Mobile Web Templates for High-End Devices
These layout samples are created using components from the Nokia Mobile Web Templates for High-End Devices. The layouts illustrate common ways to combine components within the context of a corporate website, a news website, and an online store. Layout Samples for Mobile Web Templates for High-End Devices is part of the Mobile Web Templates and Layout Samples series. For an introduction and more information, see Mobile Web Templates - introduction to templates.

Layout Samples for Mobile Web Templates for Low-End Devices
These layout samples are created using components from the Nokia Mobile Web Templates for Low-End Devices. The layouts illustrate common ways to combine components within the context of a corporate website, a news website, and an online store. Layout Samples for Mobile Web Templates for Low-End Devices is part of the Mobile Web Templates and Layout Samples series. For an introduction and more information, see Mobile Web Templates - introduction to templates.

Nokia Mobile Web Templates for High-End Devices
The Nokia Mobile Web Templates provide a series of custom, styled, and tested mobile web components. You can either mix and match the components or use the full series to completely customise your mobile website or application. The components are suitable for most S60 3rd Edition and S60 5th Edition devices from Nokia and also are compatible with newer Series 40 WebKit and Maemo devices.
Mobile Web Templates for High-End Devices is part of the Mobile Web Templates and Layout Samples series. For an introduction and more information, see Mobile Web Templates - introduction to templates.

Layout Samples for Mobile Web Templates for Mid-Range Devices
These layout samples are created using components from the Nokia Mobile Web Templates for Mid-Range Devices. The layouts illustrate common ways to combine components within the context of a corporate website, a news website, and an online store. Layout samples for Mobile web templates for mid-range devices is part of the Mobile web templates and Layout samples series. For an introduction and more information, see Mobile Web Templates - introduction to templates.

Nokia Mobile Web Templates for Mid-Range Devices
The Nokia Mobile Web Templates are a series of custom, tested mobile Web styles and components. Creative developers can mix and match components as needed or use the full series to completely customise their website or application. This series of templates is primarily intended for mid-range devices. Mobile Web Templates for Mid-Range Devices is part of Mobile Web Templates and Layout Samples series. For an introduction and more information, see Mobile Web Templates - introduction to templates.

Nokia Mobile Web Templates for Low-End Devices
The Nokia Mobile Web Templates are a series of custom, tested mobile web styles and components. Creative developers can mix and match components as needed or use the full series to completely customise their website or application. This series of templates is primarily intended for low-end devices.
Mobile Web Templates for Low-End Devices is part of the Mobile Web Templates and Layout Samples series. For an introduction and more information, see Mobile Web Templates - introduction to templates.

User Experience Evaluation Model
The Forum Nokia User Experience programme provides an evaluation service that evaluates a developer’s application from the user's point of view. The evaluation comprises multiple evaluation items described in this document. More information about the User Experience Programme can be found from the Forum Nokia website.

WRTKit Developer’s Guide
This is the developer’s guide for WRTKit, an unsupported set of utility components and code that provide a UI library designed to help widget developers create functionally rich and visually appealing WRT widgets. The guide describes the use of the WRTKit components, offers several tutorials on using WRTKit, and provides a detailed API reference.

Web Developer's Library
The Web Developer's Library is an information package for developers wishing to create WRT widgets for S60 devices and web pages for the Web Browser for S60. The library includes introductory, getting started, implementation, and API-level information about WRT widgets, as well as examples of creating WRT widgets. The library also includes introductory, getting started, design, and implementation information about creating web pages for the S60 Browser. This library is available online and as a stand-alone version.

Widgets for the S60 Platform Training Course
This training course describes how to develop Nokia Web Runtime (WRT) widgets for the S60 platform devices. Widgets are web applications that can be run outside the web browser in devices compatible with the Web Runtime environment. This package includes training documentation and lab exercises with example code.

Web Runtime: Hue Widget Example
This Web Runtime (WRT) widget allows users to explore and search for colours, patterns, and palettes from the popular colourLOVERS.com website API. The widget is related to the Widget design tutorial in the Design and User Experience Library.

Mobile Hands-on Labs
This e-learning consists of six hands-on modules that help you get started with the development of mobile applications in Qt, Web Runtime, and Flash Lite. The modules explain the development environment and the key aspects of the language. Each module has a hands-on section with step-by-step instructions on how create an application. The modules also contain links pointing to relevant information.

Web Runtime: AccuWidget Example
This S60 Web Runtime widget allows the user to check the current weather conditions and the forecast for the current and following day. The updated version supports adding the widget on the home screen (first introduced in the Nokia N97). The example application is designed to support all S60 devices with Web Runtime, both with keypad and touch UI.

Web Runtime: RouteWidget Example
This S60 Web Runtime widget demonstrates how to retrieve the current location (latitude and
longitude), travelled distance, current speed (horizontal), and number of GPS satellites. The updated example supports adding the widget on the homescreen, first introduced in the Nokia N97 device. The application can be installed on S60 devices that support Platform Services for Web Runtime (from S60 5th Edition onwards), and it is optimised for touch UI.

Home Screen for WRT Developers
WRT Home screen widgets allow users to view dynamic data from several widgets simultaneously without having to launch the widgets on full screen. The Home screen widgets section of the Web Developer's Library describes the home screen and provides implementation information on getting your widgets to the home screen.

S60 5th Edition E-learning
This e-learning module gives an overview of the possiblitilies offered by S60 5th Edition. The module discusses the additions such as touch UI and sensor and search frameworks and presents the enhancements including Open C libraries and Platform Services.

Designing Web Content and Services for Nokia S60 Devices E-learning
This e-learning module describes how to design Web sites to provide a pleasant browsing experience for mobile users. The e-learning module discusses mobile Web browsing characteristics, Web Runtime environments, Web page design issues for mobile Internet devices, the most important Web site development and testing tools, and offers a state-of-the-art overview of the existing technologies and tools available for Web developers. The module focuses on developing Web content for S60 devices but the information can be applied to other devices as well.

Widgets for the S60 Platform E-learning
This e-learning module introduces the Nokia Web widgets, which are Web applications that can be run outside the Web browser in devices compatible with the Web Runtime environment. An example Web widget is used to demonstrate how to develop and deploy the widgets. This module is also available in Chinese.

Essential S60: Creating Location-Aware Applications
This Essential S60 booklet provides background information about positioning technology and location-aware applications, and also provides an introduction to the S60 APIs for developers using Symbian C++, Java ME, Web Runtime, or Flash Lite.

Application of the Week: Pepsi's Kung Fu Fighting Widget
Working with Pepsi Latin America, Forum Nokia helped to create the Pepsi “Kung Fu Fighting” widget, based on the eponymous 1974 song "Kung Fu Fighting".

Application of the Week: Kyte
Kyte makes it possible for S60 3rd Edition device users to quickly produce both live and recorded video. After making the video, you can easily distribute it to multiple online and mobile destinations, and then you can engage with an audience using multimedia chat. Click on the PDF to learn more about Kyte.

Application of the Week: WHERE
With the use of the WHERE platform from uLocate Communications, Inc., you can find myriad useful answers. You can use WHERE’s location-based widgets to answer questions ranging from where is the nearest brew pub, to where are my friends right now? You can also find answers to questions that you might not have even thought about previously.

S60 5th Edition: What’s New for Developers
This document provides developers with a summary of the new features in the initial release of S60 5th Edition. The document describes the changes to the UI and the new features available to developers using Symbian C++, Open C/C++, Java™ technology, Web Runtime (WRT), and Flash Lite from Adobe. It also covers support for additional content formats.

S60 Platform: Developers’ Introductory Guide
This version of S60 Platform: Developers’ Introductory Guide provides information about the platform through the initial release of S60 5th Edition. It describes the architecture of the S60 platform, provides an overview of the available runtime and content technologies, outlines the tools available for developers, and offers a guide to the support services provided by Forum Nokia.
Application of the Week: Plusmo
Plusmo is a leading provider of mobile “widgets” that deliver rich, personalized experiences for consumers on a broad range of Nokia devices. Plusmo’s service enables people to extend social networking, track live sports, get news updates, watch videos, and play games through their mobile phones anytime and anywhere. Click on any of the links to the right to learn more about Plusmo.

Mobile Web Technologies Overview
This article gives an overview of the evolution of mobile Web browsing and how to take mobile Web users into consideration in Web design, including the potential provided by new technologies such as widgets and WidSets, and the difference between Full and Lite browsing.

S60 Web Runtime and WRT Widgets
This webinar gives you an overview of S60 Web Runtime and WRT Widgets. In addition, an introduction to the Widget development for S60 (for example packaging and deployment) of Widgets is included to this webinar.

Introducing Web Run-Time
Web Run-Time allows easy and user-friendly Internet access from a mobile device - anywhere, anytime. This document gives a brief introduction to the Web Run-Time concept, and discusses also developer benefits, development tools, and future development of the technology.

Porting Apple Dashboard Widgets to S60
Learn how to port widgets built for Apple’s Dashboard to the S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 2 Web Run-Time (WRT) platform. Step-by-step examples take you through the process of converting Dashboard-specific features to the WRT mobile domain. Complete examples with full source code are provided in a separate ZIP file delivered within this documentation package.

WeatherBug Widget - On-Screen Demonstration
This movie shows the on-screen operation of the Weatherbug widget. It describes the sequence of operations from searching for a feed from a local weather station - to displaying real-time information from that source. The Weatherbug application is described in more detail in the article Porting Widgets to the S60 Platform: Easier Than Ever.

S60 Goes Beyond Web Browsing with Web Run-Time and Widgets
Widgets give users quick, instant and easy access to Web 2.0 services and full Web content access on their mobile devices. Widgets are developed using standards-based Web technologies, enabling developers to create rich and compelling Web applications for mobile devices.

Porting Widgets to the S60 Platform: Easier than Ever
Thanks to Nokia’s recent introduction of Web Run-Time, porting standards-based widgets to the S60 platform is now quicker and more straightforward than ever. This case study focuses on the WeatherBug widget - which provides live updates of weather conditions, forecasts, and warnings.