Features Articles: Other
From Forum Nokia Wiki
This tick symbolizes the featured content on the Forum Nokia Wiki.
Featured articles are considered to be good quality articles in the Forum Nokia Wiki, as determined by the Forum Nokia Wiki administrators. Before being listed here, these articles are reviewed for accuracy, neutrality, completeness, and style.
A small tick () in the top-right corner of an article indicates that the article is a featured article.
View by category: All | Symbian C++ | Open C/C++ | Java | Qt | Python | Flash Lite | WRT Widget | Maemo | Other
| Publishing to Ovi Store FAQ | Week 31 - July 26th 2009 |
This week's featured article, Publishing to Ovi Store FAQ, is written by Ron Liechty.
Ever since the possibility for developers to publish their content to the Ovi Store was introduced, Forum Nokia has been providing numerous resources to come to their aid.
This article is a collection of the questions asked by developers and the answers they received from Nokia during the Q&A sessions from the Ovi Publish Reports Overview webinar. Covering a wide range of topics, including the remuneration system, user review system, and procedural issues that the store intends to fix, these questions and answers will help you better understand how publishing to the Ovi Store currently works and what its future prospects are.
Read the article to gain insight on the publishing system and see what pitfalls and advantages are worth taking into consideration.
| Near Field Communication | Week 30 - July 19th 2009 |
This week's featured article, Near Field Communication, is written by Honest_success.
Near Field Communication (NFC) is a short-range wireless connectivity technology that offers simple, intuitive, and safe communication between electronic devices. The users of the NFC-enabled devices can simply point or touch their devices to other NFC-enabled elements in the environment to communicate with them, making application and data usage easy and convenient.
This article explains how NFC technology works in four different ways to communicate with other NFC-enabled elements. The Contactless Communication API (JSR 257) is used in the development for NFC. The Contactless Communication API allows to discover and exchange data with contact less targets such as NDEF tags, RFID tags, and external smartcards.
The communication range for NFC is so limited and there are keys for security in communication but yet there are chances of attacks by data modification, eavesdropping and relay attacks. Thus to guard from such attacks, applications have to use higher-layer cryptographic protocols (e.g., SSL) to establish a secure channel.
Read the article to discover and transfer your data from your NFC enabled devices to the other NFC-enabled elements in the near field environment.
| Designing appealing mobile web pages | Week 29 - July 12th 2009 |
This week's featured article, Designing appealing mobile web pages, is edited and enhanced by Jarkko Aura.
Despite of mobile phone browsers getting better and better, there is still a need for mobile optimized websites. Mobile optimized webpages not only ensure better user experience but also present the content in a more graceful manner. Designing effective web pages for mobile is challenging because of the slow and often costly Internet connections and varying device screen sizes.
This article provides information on best practices to create appealing mobile optimized webpages. Illustrations are provided in the article for each best practice. Some of the tips include detecting the device, keeping the page weight small, scaling and aligning screen elements, providing easy navigation links, enhancing visual appearance, etc.
Read the article to optimize your webpages for mobile devices.
| Getting started with the m language | Week 20 - May 10th 2009 |
This week's featured article, Getting started with the m language, is written by Bogdan Galiceanu.
As S60 is an extremely popular mobile platform, a great number of programming languages are available for it. This article is a tutorial for getting started with one such language: m.
The article provides and overview of the installation process of mShell, an application that serves as a virtual machine and an interface for running scripts, and explains how to create your first application in simple steps.
Read the article to learn how to start developing applications with m and find resources necessary to help you learn all about this exciting programming alternative.
| Mobilising your Web Service | Week 19 - May 3rd 2009 |
This week's featured article, Mobilising your Web Service, is originally created by Risalmin and has been recently updated by TK2000.
Nowadays, the users of the internet are more and more tapping into the world wide web from a desktop computer over a broadband connection as well as from a smartphone. For these users it is important that the services offer a consistent user experience, regardless of the differences in screen sizes and input methods. This article describes different approaches for enabling a web site for mobile use so that end user experience remains consistent.
The article explains how to provide such consistent end user experience by considering various aspects based on different mobile browsers and devices, selecting a method for providing the mobile content, selecting the content to display for mobile users etc.
Read the article to give consistent look and feel to your web services for mobile use.
| AT Commands | Week 38 - September 14th 2008 |
AT Commands is the featured article of this week. It is originally created by Vasant21 and was recently updated by Antonypr. It explains matters that developers are frequently confronted with.
AT Commands are part of the Hayes Command set. These commands consists of a series of short text strings which combine together to produce complete commands for various modem operations. Such modem operations consists of dialing, hanging up, and changing the parameters of the connection. Thus AT command set is the industry standard method of communicating with and setting up a modem.
The article contains AT commands set for Nokia GSM and WCDMA products. Various AT Commands for Call control, Data card control, Phone control, Computer data card interface commands, SMS commands, etc are listed in the article. This article also focuses on how to use AT commands with Hyperterminal.
