This first release includes the following newspapers:

• Ansa
• Corriere della Sera
• Corriere dello Sport
• Gazzetta dello Sport
• Il Giornale
• Il Mattino
• Il Messaggero
• Il Sole 24 Ore
• La Repubblica
• La Stampa
• Tuttosport

You can download News Italy from the Ovi Store.

The features of this first release include:

• All the Regional and National versions of the Italian TeleText (Televideo RAI)
• Full-screen landscape mode

You can download TeleText Italy from the Ovi Store.

The first project is for a widget that allows the user to perform searches through the Bing search engine.

Its code shows how many widgets’ common features can be implemented, including:

• integrate a public REST API
• retrieve and show dynamic data from network
• detect and adapt to different screen resolutions
• handle touch and key-based user interaction
• show tabbed views
• download dynamic code updates and new versions of the widget

The second widget is a configurable RSS reader supporting multiple RSS feeds at once. The widget is easily adaptable to different needs, where retrieval and displaying of remote XML feeds is needed.

The last project is a client for Google’s Buzz social network: the current functionalities include searching by keyword, and retrieving of Buzzes of a single user. Many more features are under development: feel free to take a look and integrate yours

As these are open source projects, everyone is invited to dig into the code and to contribute to the them: just join the project, and start experimenting! To start, visit Forum Nokia Projects.

How to use it? Just add it to your home screen and, when you see some cool content, click on it and you’ll be redirected to its Ovi Store download page. Simple!

Ovi Show! is configurable through a settings menu, that you find opening the widget from its icon, in your phone’s menu. You can choose which content categories to filter, and how to sort the content retrieved from the store, choosing from “Top Free”, “Best Seller” and “New”.

Once you have chosen the desired settings, don’t forget to click on “Save”, or your preferences will not be applied.

Being just  a first release, Ovi Show! can be improved thanks to your feedback, so please post here your comments or thoughts about it!

Ovi Show! is available for download here:

Note: to use Ovi Show!, your Nokia device must support home screen widgets. Currently the devices supporting home screen widgets are: Nokia N97 and Nokia N97 mini.

]]> http://www.jappit.com/blog/2010/05/23/explore-the-ovi-store-on-your-home-screen-with-ovi-show/feed/ 8 http://www.jappit.com/blog/2010/05/06/vodafone-app-star-winners-announced/ http://www.jappit.com/blog/2010/05/06/vodafone-app-star-winners-announced/#comments Thu, 06 May 2010 08:22:43 +0000 pit http://www.jappit.com/blog/?p=1374 The first phase of Vodafone App Star competition has recently ended, and the full list of winners, 3 for each country, have finally been announced, as you can read here.

I’m happy to say that one of my widgets (Guida TV) won the second country prize for Italy!!!

Now, the second phase of the competition is running, and you can vote for the eight finalists to decide which will be the overall winner!  Public voting will end on 21st May, and by sending your preference you will also have a chance to win a brand new Vodafone H1 device.

The document focuses on three kind of applications: websites, web apps, and stand-alone Adobe Flash applications, covering all topics involved in design and development of a RIA, from development tools to user experience design and evaluation, from testing to going to market.

Mobile offers significant opportunities for RIAs. The ability to access data and information anywhere there is a suitable network connection is of significant appeal to mobile users. The knowledge that their data is also securely stored on a remote server, regardless of what happens to the mobile device, is a significant attraction as well.
With many hundreds of millions of Nokia devices already in the market place that can run RIAs now, there has never been a better time to go mobile with your RIA.

Check it out!

On Wednesday March 3rd in Sheffield, Vodafone in partnership with Screen Yorkshire will host an afternoon and evening event, providing commercial and technical education, guidelines, Q&A and expert panel sessions around the Vodafone 360 mobile apps platform.

On the day you will learn about JIL, Apps of interest to Vodafone UK customers and win hardware, software and cash prizes at the evening Hackathon.

Find out more about the event and register for your FREE entry ticket by visiting:
http://vodafonedevdaynorth.eventbrite.com

The Guarana UI framework has just been launched, with a complete set of ready-to-use components that will definitely be useful to all Web Runtime developers.

It’s now available a Guarana UI online Components Browser, that allows developers to quickly preview and use all the Guarana UI Components.

Soon it will feature tutorials and guidelines on Components usage, testing and customization.

If you have a WRT widget, a new Component or a proof-of-concept built by using Guarana UI, and want to feature it on this page, just drop me an email or a comment on this post.

Hope you enjoy it!

Note: as the Guarana UI framework is designed to properly work with WebKit, the Guarana UI online Components Browser does not currently work with the Interet Explorer browser ]]> http://www.jappit.com/blog/2009/11/19/guarana-ui-online-components-browser/feed/ 2 http://www.jappit.com/blog/2009/11/19/guarana-ui-a-jquery-based-ui-library-for-nokia-wrt/ http://www.jappit.com/blog/2009/11/19/guarana-ui-a-jquery-based-ui-library-for-nokia-wrt/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:08:20 +0000 pit http://www.jappit.com/blog/?p=690 Mobile widget developers know that one of the biggest difficulties when creating a new widget is to build a nice, usable interface that is compatible with the largest set of devices, touch or non-touch. Components and code snippets commonly found on standard JavaScript frameworks are quite always not suited for mobile devices, and result in poor or non-optimal results.

Finally, Forum Nokia has released a UI framework that promises to solve all these issues, by providing a complete, tested and cross-compatible set of ready-to-use components: Guarana UI!

The framework is really complete, counting more that 20 components, compatible with touch (S60 5th edition) and non touch devices (S60 3.2 and 3.1, with some exceptions for the 3.1).

Moreover, the framework includes some interesting features as asynchronous loading of resources, that is absolutely useful to optimize performances and memory usage within a widget.

To get started, Forum Nokia provides extensive documentation, a Quick Start guide and sample code to show how each component looks like and how it can be used.

Kudos to Forum Nokia developers, as their effort will definitely bring fresh air to all widgets’ developers out there!

The full article is available on Forum Nokia Wiki: Building a Flickr widget with Mobile Web Templates.