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Let your website go mobile with Mobile Joomla!

pit — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:48:33 +0000

Kuneri just released a new, powerful tool for all mobile web developers: Mobile Joomla!

Mobile Joomla allows to turn an existing Joomla website into a mobile website, compatible with all phones in the world!

Its features include:

Advaced User Agent detection (multiple methods i.e WURFL, Compact WURFL, fixed or none)
Multi site support
Advanced image adaptation
Flexible layout settings
Sub-domain redirection
Advanced device categorization: XHTML, iPhone, iMode and WAP
Custom templates per device category
Menu exclusion per device category
Fully customizable with different modules and templates
Compatibility with 3rd party extensions, modules and components

Mobile Joomla really seems to address all the major hurdles of mobile web development, and I really can’t expect to try it out

Kudos to Ugur and his great team!!

New Flickr widget: MobiFlik now available on Ovi Store

pit — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:09:35 +0000

MobiFlik, a Web Runtime widget that allows you to search, browse and bookmark Flickr photos, is now available on the Ovi Store for free.

You can download it from the following link: MobiFlik, the Flickr mobile widget.

Mobilising websites: guidelines for WRT Widgets development, part 2

pit — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:53:59 +0000

Some days ago I wrote about WRT development, and listed some first considerations that I usually face when thinking about a new Web Runtime Widget.

Today I continue this series with other points, hoping these guidelines could help other WRT developers as well.

To read the full article, check out my blog on Forum Nokia:

Mobilising websites: guidelines for WRT Widgets development, part 2

Mobilising websites: guidelines for WRT Widgets development, part 1

pit — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:16:20 +0000

More and more initiatives are taking place to promote mobile Widgets in various forms. One example is the Calling All Innovators competition by Nokia, that has a category dedicated to “Internet Innovations”, and where you can submit your mobile applications based on Web technologies.

So, since there are a lot of opportunities to promote yourself and your work, I started thinking and writing some guidelines that could hopefully help both Web and mobile developers to approach Web Runtime widgets development.

You can read the first part of this guidelines on my blog on Forum Nokia:

Mobilising websites: guidelines for WRT Widgets development, part 1

As always, I would be happy to have any kinds of feedbacks about it

TvProgrammi.com goes mobile!

pit — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:34:56 +0000

TvProgrammi.com, the Italian TV guide, finally has its mobile version!

If you have a phone supporting J2me (MIDP 2.0), you can download its first version directly from http://www.tvprogrammi.com.

Navigation is really straightfoward:

1 .. 9 keys allow channel switching
left/right keys change the selected date
up/down keys scroll the program text
left soft key updates programs informations
right soft key closes the application

This version is not suitable for devices with small displays (let’s say, with a width of less than 128px), but for those a new version will be released soon.

Google launches mobile image ads

pit — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:03:49 +0000

From Google Mobile Blog good news for mobile developers: Mobile Image Ads will allow us to integrate Google image ads within our mobile websites the same way, and with the same useful analysis and report tools, as their web counterpart.

At the moment is still unclear how, and if, these ads could be used within mobile applications, like with other mobile ads services (i.e. AdMob), but it’ll be worth investigating a bit

Web Compatibility Test for Mobile Browsers

pit — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:29:57 +0000

Mobile browsers are really grown up, and it’s a clear symptom of this the fact that W3C published a Compatibility Test for Mobile Browsers (found via Ajaxian). You can simply launch test page within your mobile browser and you’ll get visual feedbacks about supported features, including:

XMLHTTPRequest object support
contenteditable, to allow rich content editing
transparent PNG support
Dynamic SVG
CSS3 selectors

Test page will give you a visual feedback like this:

Where each green square means that a feature is supported on your phone, while it’s not with a red one.
If you want to give it a try just point your browser to this url: http://tinyurl.com/37e33p, or use this QR code:

Building a fisheye menu in J2ME with JSR 226

pit — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:23:25 +0000

I’ve always loved fisheye menus but, while there are quite a lot of ready-to-use components for web applications, when it comes to mobile it’s hard to find something. What better reason to build one?

Since we’ll have dynamically resizable icons, a natural choice to build one with J2ME is JSR 226, that give us full support of SVG Tiny. This will limit portability of code, since this JSR is not supported on all J2me phones, but support is rapidly growing with latest generation phones.

As you’ll see, code is quite straightforward, and great part of it is dedicated to coordinates/size calculations, to create that “slide/resize” effect that is soooooo cool

You can find menu source code on my Forum Nokia Wiki article: J2ME Fisheye Menu with JSR 226, or download sample midlet here (and source code here).

Faceroller: mobile geotagged microblogging

pit — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:43:44 +0000

FaceRoller is a micro-blogging service with integrated picture and geo-locating funcionalities: practically, you snap a photo, write what you want and tell where you are, and the job is done and, if you’ve got a Flickr or Facebook account, your pictures will be automatically uploaded there.

It has also a J2me mobile client to upload photos when you’re on the go, directly from your java enabled phone.

If you want to give it a try signup on FaceRoller and then download the j2me client.

We’re still developing and expanding its concept, so comments and feedback are welcome!