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Announcements and News

Thiagobrunoms is October’s Contributor of the Month

This month Thiagobrunoms has achieved this honor for both his original articles such as MIDP's User Interface Hierarchy: Event Handling, Portuguese translations like ‎Cronômetro em JavaME as well as edits to existing articles.

Most months a Forum Nokia member that contributes high quality new articles or major edits is named the Contributor of the Month and is awarded a Nokia Multimedia device for his/her contribution to the developer’s community.

You too can be a Contributor of the Month by simply contributing useful articles, example codes, tutorials, or by significantly shaping up the already existing ones. If you have significant edits to the existing pages then please bring these to my attention. Articles are judged first and foremost by the quality, value and appearance of the article and code so even one very good article can win.

Have you heard our Forum Nokia Podcasts?

Some of the most recent podcasts have included discussions with developer companies such as Tui Interactive, Mippin, LEG, and MojosMobile. In addition, we have had many discussions with our own Nokians. To see what you've been missing, come check us out at the Forum Nokia Podcast Blog.

Are you reading My Daily App?

Are you reading My Daily App? This site sponsored by Forum Nokia has been reviewing applications available from Ovi Store and blogging about them at MyDailyApp.com. As a person selling applications, it is good that this independent group is reviewing and bringing to notice these applications. These applications are something you may never have heard about but are cool to have. .

I invite you to take a look; the reviews are cool and unbiased. As a developer you should know they are not limited to big developer houses but highlight the small independent distributor. If the Widget or app is cool and in the Ovi store, they will promote it.

Check out Qt for Maemo - getting to the fast-lane

Qt for Maemo - getting to the fast-lane is one of several Qt presentations by Pekka Kosonen available on slideshare.com. This slideset was presented at the Qt developer days October 13th.

Qt is the open source framework that allows developers to write one set of code and natively deploy it on several platforms including S60 and Maemo based devices.

Porting to S60 Guides

Mobile developers are required to adapt to different software developing techniques while switching from one development platform to another. Porting to S60 Guides bring together the essential references for porting mobile applications of various flavours to the Symbian S60 platform. From the architectural changes to the common programming errors, these guides address all difficulties that a developer would face while porting mobile applications to S60 platform.

This week's featured porting guide, Porting iPhone web applications to S60 5th Edition, is contributed by several experts in the Forum Nokia developer community.

This article is meant to provide beginning and intermediate iPhone WebApps developers with an introduction to porting applications to S60 5th Edition, for both mobile browser and WRT Widgets platform. This article addresses compatible and non-compatible technologies in both iPhone web applications and S60 5th Edition web browser or WRT widgets. Also, the article describes porting the iPhone web application to S60 browser and how to port iPhone web application to WRT widgets with suitable code snippets.

Read the article and port your iPhone web applications to S60 devices.

More Wiki Announcements and News

Honors to Vdharankar Forum Nokia Wiki Administrator

I would like to honor Vishal Dharankar this quarter as one of our Forum Nokia Wiki Administrators. Vishal has stood out in his actions to improve our Wiki. Vishal continues to add contents as he edits and improves the Wiki behind the scenes without fan fare. I hope you will all join me in deepest appreciation of Vishal's efforts.

Contact myself or any of the administrators if you wish to volunteer as a Wiki administrator.

Reward winners for the Review a Wiki Article Winners

Larry101
Nirpsis
Kamalakshan
Deepikagohil
The random drawing winner was FireSwarog
Forum Nokia Champion Category Savaj and Gaba88

Ron
Nokia Ron

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Quick Guides

Featured Article of the Week

This week's featured article, Zoom and Rotate Gestures in FlashLite for touch-enabled devices, is written by Sangramp@cybage.com.

S60 5th Edition devices are able to detect gestures, which are often used to navigate through a series of objects, zoom in or out, or start the execution of various operations.

This article explains how to implement gestures such as zooming in and out, and rotating in Flash Lite. The core idea is to divide the touch input area into a number of quadrants and a reference circle in the middle. The gesture is interpreted differently based on which quardants are touched and whether or not the reference circle is intersected with. Code snippets are provided for every step, illustrating how each part of the concept can be implemented.

Read the article to become familiar with one way of detecting and interpreting the gestures the user makes on the device's touch screen.