It was time to update my Namedays widget for Android. Now you can configure background and text colors in configure view. In configure view you can see how your widget will looks like and just save your settings when you are ready. Namedays supports now 14 countries. Please email me to get your country included.
Just tap namedays widget:
- header text to refresh data,
- name day text to show next name and
- footer to configure again.
You can find Namedays widget in Android Market's Social Category or just search "Namedays". Note: You have to remove earlier version to get new configuration view working!
Hope you like it now.
I uploaded Namedays widget to Android Market. Add this widget to your home screen and you will remember your friends name days.
This widget includes following countries: Austria, Czech, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovak, Spain, Sweden, UK and USA.
I wrote Flash Lite related articles and code examples to Forum Nokia Wiki and the Wiki Administrators selected me to Contributor of the Month. It is big honor to me - thanks! My articles covers features of APIBridge and S60 Platform Services API for Flash Lite.
"Forum Nokia honors one member every month for their outstanding contribution to our community’s Wiki. The contributor of the month is awarded a new S60 device. The honor is given to people that have contributed outstanding work for the month in number of articles and quality of the articles."
Articles and Flash Lite source codes:
* Capturing and uploading image, video or audio files to server with Flash Lite and APIBridge
* Creating Image Gallery with Flash Lite and APIBridge
* Display contact information and locations in Google Maps with Flash Lite 3.1
Nokia has published out new Nokia OVI Magazine. You can read it fullscreen for example here: Nokia magazine issue one
Forum Nokia published a series of Flash Lite tutorials with source codes: Music, LBS, RSS, Social Networking, Photostream, Event and Video.
"These tutorials provide working code for key aspects of Flash Lite integration with the latest S60 devices from Nokia. Each tutorial includes the Flash project, skinned swf files that can be run on an S60 5th Edition device and a tutorial guide document. Several of the tutorials illustrate the packaging of Flash Lite content into a WRT widget."
I improved my eariler example which loads contact informations from users device - displays informations to scrollable list and shows contacts location in Google Maps (static image). In this new version a new Device Object is used to keep Flash Lite application in portrait mode all the time. Another great feature is to detect users device location with APIBridge. In this version of Contacts Demo both user location and contact's address location is shown at static Google Maps Image (user can adjust zoom level).
This Flash Lite example code article is published in Forum Nokia Wiki. You can found more informations and source codes there:
- Display contact informations and locations in google Maps with Flash Lite 3.1
Edit: This tutorial got Featured Article of the Week status in Forum Nokia Wiki at Week 14 - April 4th, 2010.
A long wait is now over and you can download/buy Flash Builder 4 and the Flex SDK. A lot of usefull informations can be found for example in the Official Flex Team blog, What's new in Flash Builder 4, What's new in Flex 4 and Differences between Flex 3 and 4.
Adobe provides a free copy of Flash Builder 4 standard for students, faculty and staff of eligible educational institutions. Download form can be found here.
In this my second Forum Nokia Wiki code example article I explain how to create a image gallery with Flash Lite and APIBridge. Technically first all the images data are loaded from device using the Media Management Service, then user can browse images just pressing next or prev buttons on the screen. Device object is used to keep Flash Lite application in landscape mode all the time.
APIBridge and Platform Services API provides great plug-ins for Flash Lite Developers, if you are not familiar with those, you should give some time to them.
Finally I got time to write my first article in to forum nokia wiki. APIBridge has been there for a while for Flash Lite and JavaScript developers. In my first article I will demonstrate how to capture image, video or audio in Flash Lite 3.0 based devices and how to send those files to server side. This can be done with Flash Lite and ActionScript 2.0 in a few lines of code. You can find FLA and PHP source codes at the bottom of article page in forum nokia wiki.
Here is a direct link to wiki page.
Edit: This tutorial got Featured Article of the Week status in Forum Nokia Wiki at Week 11- March 14th, 2010.
Mark has created his first AS3 app - Helisso - A Flash Lite application packager for Symbian devices. With this tool you can create SIS packages for Symbian devices in Windows or Mac. Yes you read it right in Mac without installing any Symbian SDK. Excellent Mark!
