May 20
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New FN article on longPress touch interaction

This is an article that I have always had in my mind. It is a tutorial on how to use and detect LongPress on touch based phones. In this article, I talk about the design issues, UI considerations and challenges associated with the longPress gesture.
A simple Flash Lite 2.0 code example has also been attached.

var [...]

Author: Manikantan
May 20
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N8, FL4, Cs5 and the possibilities

The last few months have been very tight schedules for me and left quite a few announcements unrelayed. Nokia launched its first Symbian 3 phone N8. Boasting as the first 12 Megapixel camera embedded, multi-touch supporting device, I think it is one more step forward in bringing greater digital experiences to the hand.
Quite in the [...]

Author: Manikantan
Feb 27
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Nokia’s roadmap document released

Yesterday Forum Nokia released it’s roadmap document on its prospective work in 2010. This document is important to all developers who are aiming to make impression in the Nokia landscape of mobile devices. Insights in the document include -
1. The different Nokia platforms today - S60, Series 40 and the Maemo ( moving to Meego [...]

Author: Manikantan
Dec 24
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Bing translator in Flash Lite

Its been quite a long time I put my hands on any Flash Lite coding. I now present to you Bing Translation engine’s Flash Lite client. This application can translate between international languages using the Bing translation engine (version 2.2) provided by Microsoft.
Here are the keys steps -

1. Request a Bing API Key from Bing site. [...]

Author: Manikantan
Oct 28
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Adobe presenting at NDC, Bangalore

As most of you would be knowing from Pankaj’s post, the Nokia Developer Conference 2009 is taking place this December 7 at Taj Residency, Bangalore. And what makes this special is that, Adobe would be presenting at the event and showcase some of their technologies. Hence this becomes a great opportunity for anybody in the [...]

Author: Manikantan
Oct 14
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SWFxME released !

My friend Sajid Ali has been working quite sometime on this project ‘SWFxME’ which aims at extending Flash Lite capabilities with the use of Java ME and it has finally released. SWFxME is an open source project developed to extend Flash Lite with J2ME via HTTP server (written in J2ME code) and to provide more [...]

Author: Manikantan
Sep 09
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Connecting to Pandorabots from Flash Lite

Yesterday, I authored an article at Forum Nokia, as to how to connect from Flash Lite to the wonderful Pandorabots. In case you are not aware of Pandorabots, PandoraBots is a software robot (also known as a bot) hosting service. From any browser, you may create and publish your own robots to anyone via the [...]

Author: Manikantan
Sep 09
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Packaging Flash content for million hansets

I have been planning to write on this article for such a long time. This post discusses the straightforward way to create HQ flash content on Mobile phones and reach out to the million handsets buzzing over the planet.
Well, say for example you are creating a game or an application for Nokia or Windows phones, [...]

Author: Manikantan
Jun 29
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GamesPlaza now features Verbose!

Verbose now features in BoosterMedia’s mobile site gamesplaza.mobi. It can be found under the puzzles section. One can lookup here and download it directly on your mobile devices.

You can play the game and vote for it based on your experience. For those who have not played Verbose yet, its a game based on anagrams. The [...]

Author: Manikantan
May 18
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Creating Simple Car games

As a sequel to my previous post on Gaming Tutorial, I now show how to create a Simple car game whose working model/ code logic is same as the previous HELI game tutorial. The photo images will give you an idea or a reminiscence of what the old car, brick- based game looked like.

However, in [...]

Author: Manikantan