Mobile games development

Mobile Web Server has reached 1.3 version, and It’s time to give it a try!

The setup process is really simple: you must register, and then download the software (a single SIS installer). Done that, you’re ready to share all your phone content! More in details, here are the features of the last release:

• Guest and friend user accounts
• Calendar - manage your calendar, and share your availability for others too
• Messaging - SMS inbox/outbox and SMS sending
• Phone log - view missed calls
• Contacts - manage your contacts easily
• Blog - tell stories on your journeys
• Camera - share instant pictures
• Gallery - browse pictures taken with camera phone, and share them to others
• Guestbook - visitors can leave their comments
• Contact me - visitors can send instant messages to you
• Presence - share your status and device state
• Web chat - communicate with friends

The concept behind it is really attractive: have your web server always with you, and share things without the need to upload anything anywhere. Even letting users use your phone features, like taking instant picture with the phone camera!

For sure, at least here in Italy, network speed and operator plans should evolve a bit to fully allow this technology to be really used. Also, with a lot of tools to upload you content on your favorite sites, I’m a bit unsure about the real target, in terms of users and possible usages, of this product.

Said that, I definitely think It’s cool, at least for real geeks!

And, for the curious out there, if you want to browse my phone content, you can simply go to: http://jappit.mymobilesite.net.

KuneriLite is a great tool to extend FlashLite functionalities adding support for native features like local filesystem read/write, camera recording, accelerometer capabilities and much more. All these without the need to have any Symbian knowledge.

Practically, you interact with KuneriLite engine via localhost calls. For example, if you want to get recursive folder listing starting from current application base path, you can simply do:

loadVariables("http://127.0.0.1:1001/Basic/file?
klCommand=dir&klPath=\\&klArgs=/s", targetMc);

Their tool comes with an integrated wizard and an emulator, to be used with Symbian S60 3rd edition SDK Maintenance Release, to allow full development without the need of a real device.

Now they’ve just released 0.9.6.1 version, that fixes issues with Flash Lite 3 and add new cool features, as you can read on their blog, and it’s more than ever worth a try!

I’ve got some fun with my friend Fabio in creating a first game for Nokia Web Runtime.

Since Web Runtime allows building mobile applications with classic web technologies, we’ve used nothing more that html, css and plain-old-good javascript… isn’t it great?

It’s a very first alpha release with not too much functionalities (local hi-scores and a single game mode), but feel free to take a try

The main interface was done using classical <a> elements to represent the menu options, but this has 2 important drawbacks, as you can see:

• links (like also input fields and other focusable elements) when focused are surrounded by a thick border: not really beautiful..
• managing of focus itself, between different screens, is not easy, so it happens that focus sometimes disappears, or starts from the last menu options, or other odd things.

Next release will try to solve those and other issues… meanwhile, we’ll be happy of any kind of feedback about it

Download Web Runtime AnimaLogic