Small Interface

MeeGo Book with WRT, Qt, and Quick - What do You want ?

2010-02-11T23:38:00.000-08:00

I am working on a professional book on MeeGo development with WRT, Qt and Quick, for which I am looking for contributors, if interested send me an email at rajesh.lal@nokia with your idea.

The likely title of the book is:

Professional MeeGo Development with WRT, Qt, and Quick

I wanted to ask you guys, what do you want in a professional book on MeeGo Development. How it can best help us to develop applications on MeeGo devices ?

Here is a proposed Table of Content. Let me know your comments

Part I FOUNDATION
1. Introducing MeeGo
2. MeeGo Design, layout and User Interface
3. Technologies supported in MeeGo

Part II DEVELOPING ON MEEGO
4. Creating an RSS based application using WRT
5. Developing a Counter Utility with Qt GUI
6. Media Application with Hybrid approach using QtWebkit
7. Creating Game with Animation using QML
8. Developing Browser extensions with XPCOM

Part III
9. Debugging
10. Deployment with Debian packaging
11. Tips and Tricks

Targeting smartphone apps for mass-market users @ FierceDeveloper.com

2010-02-07T12:42:00.000-08:00

By Gail Rahn Frederick Feb 5 2010

Who is the typical smartphone user? I envision a stressed-out businessperson or dangling-headphone hipster. My stereotypical smartphone user is an affluent, tech-savvy individual who harnesses the power of her device for near-constant interactions with mobile data services. She uses her smartphone to send email, browse the Web, stream videos and music, connect with friends on social networks, comparison-shop, and find nearby restaurants and businesses. Oh yes, and she occasionally uses her mobile phone for voice calls.

My stereotype crumbles as more and more mobile users upgrade from feature phones to smartphones. This year, mass-market consumers are stampeding into the smartphone ecosystem. 2010 is the year when “anyone with a touchscreen” is using their shiny, new smartphone to consume mobile data services. Clever mobile developers recognize the exploding smartphone user base as an unparalleled opportunity to simplify the usability of Mobile Web and native applications and provide personalized experiences to suit all kinds of smartphone users.

Learn why the sudden explosion of smartphone users here

Catch the Smartphone Wave

2010-01-28T17:36:00.000-08:00

BusinessWire: Press release for the book Beginning Smartphone Web Development: Building Javascript, CSS, HTML and Ajax-Based Applications for iPhone, Android, Palm Pre, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Nokia S60

New Book Teaches the Ins and Outs of Smartphone Development !

Medio Architect and Developer Shares Insights on Standards-Based Mobile Web Development

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Even with the excitement about mobile technology, smartphones, and applications, the need to train the next generation of programmers to take maximum advantage of new technologies is often overlooked. Mobile technology and development is similar to Web 2.0 development, however, there are enough differences and nuances by device, operating system, and form factor that even veteran web developers can be surprised by mobile web development’s complexity. A new book written by Gail Frederick and Rajesh Lai perfectly addresses this gap in the market by explaining the fundamentals of mobile web development. Although the book is written primarily for developers that are “dipping their toes” into mobile technology for the first time, expert practitioners will appreciate the detailed instruction for reference and review.

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Vote Now: 10 Tips for Mobile Web Design !

2010-01-05T18:19:00.001-08:00

How to create a mobile version of your website? Do you need to optimize your current website for mobile devices or design a completely new website? Do you need to worry about different platforms, Windows Mobile, iPhone, Symbian, Blackberry, Linux, Brew, Android, and Nokia? What resolution, what screen size you should target, and what is this PPI anyway? How to design for maximum number of users and devices, in the least amount of time? In this session, mobile web usability expert and author of "Beginning Smartphone Web Development", Rajesh Lal will discuss ten pragmatic tips, for designing website for mobile devices.

Interested ? VOTE for it at Mix 10 (1. Add to ballot,2. Submit ballot)

http://tinyurl.com/10TipsMobileWeb

Buy the Book: Beginning Smartphone Web Development

2009-12-22T09:02:00.000-08:00

Buy the Beginning Smartphone Web Development: Building Javascript, CSS, HTML and Ajax-Based Applications Book from Amazon.com

Click here or select from the following.

Below is the detail from Amazon.com

Authors : Beginning Smartphone Web Development

2009-12-22T07:55:00.000-08:00

	Contact Gail Frederick http://learnthemobileweb.com/
Gail Rahn Frederick is a mobile software architect, Mobile Web enthusiast and instructor of standards-based Mobile Web development. Her work spans Mobile Web sites and native applications on most mobile platforms. Her products target 500+ device models and have been deployed to 10+ mobile operators in 6+ countries in North America and Europe. At Learn the Mobile Web (http://learnthemobileweb.com) and Portland Community College (http://www.computers.pcc.edu), Gail teaches standards-based Mobile Web development for smartphones and other mobile devices. Her classes teach mobile markup languages, mobile design and usability, content adaptation, best practices, defensive programming and other survival tips for the mobile ecosystem. Students build content-adapted mobile web sites as the class project. At Medio Systems (http://medio.com), she leads a mobile software team developing personalized search and discovery products with a focus on mobile analytics. Gail lives with her family and trusty Labrador Retriever at the base of an extinct volcano in Portland, Oregon. When she's not coding or writing, she enjoys family walks, snowshoeing and the occasional soy latte at the neighborhood hipster coffee shop.
Contact Rajesh Lal 750 N. Shoreline Blvd Apt # 110 Mountain View California 94043 Cell: +1 858 335-3772 Email: connectrajesh [@] hotmail
Rajesh Lal is an author, designer, developer, and a technology evangelist with a decade of experience in Desktop, Web and Mobile devices. He has received numerous awards for his work on Vista and Sidebar Gadgets. Rajesh has been involved in Mobile UI/UX design for past five years and have expertise with a variety of Mobile devices, namely Sony Mylo, Window's Mobile, Apple's iPhone, Nokia S60, and Maemo devices. Vista Gadget blog: http://innovatewithgadgets.com Mobile User Interface blog: http://smallinterface.com Rajesh has a master's degree in computer science, holds MCSD and MCAD titles. He currently works as a Senior Engineer at Nokia, Mountain View, California.

Resources: Beginning Smartphone Web Development

2009-12-22T07:47:00.001-08:00

Mobile Web Standards

CSS Mobile Profile 2.0
W3C Recommendation for CSS Mobile Prfile 2.0
Device Description Repository Simple API
API for reading identifying mobile devices and reading device capabilities from a device repository
dotMobi
Company that controls the .mobi TLD.
Mobile Browser Compatibility with JavaScript, AJAX and DOM features
Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0
W3C’s Best Practices for Mobile Web Development
W3C Mobile Web Application Best Practices
Best practices for the development and delivery of Web applications on mobile devices.
W3C Mobile Web Initiative
Making Web access from a mobile device as simple as Web access from a desktop device.
W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0
Wireless CSS Specification (PDF)
Open Mobile Alliance specification for Wireless CSS
XML 1.0 Standard
XML-based mobile markup languages strictly adhere to XML syntax rules.

Mobile Web Best Practices

All about Page Weight
Considering total cost to download a web page to a mobile device.
Desiging XHTML Content for Nokia Series 60 Platform (PDF)
Article from Nokia
dotMobile Switch On! Mobile Web Developer Guide
Guide for developing compliant .mobi mobile web sites.
Mobile Design Wiki @ Little Springs Design
Mobile Design Patterns
Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0
W3C’s Best Practices for Mobile Web Development
mobiThinking – Best and Worst of the Mobile Web e-book
e-book from mobiThinking reviewing the best and worst mobile web sites
Openwave’s Best Practices in XHTML Design
Opera’s Making Small Devices Look Great

Mobile Web Development Experts

Coding for the Mobile Web
Comparison of XHTML Mobile Profile and XHTML Basic
Feature comparison of two popular mobile markup languages.
Differences between XHTML MP, XHTML Basic, WML, i-mode, and HDML?
Wild evolutionary path of mobile markup
Global Authoring Practices for the Mobile Web
Luca Passani’s GAP document about mobile web design and development
Mob Lob
Mobile Line of Business
mobiForge
Mobile developer community owned by dotMobi. Formerly dev.mobi.
Mobile Browser Compatibility with JavaScript, AJAX and DOM features
Mobile Design Wiki @ Little Springs Design
Mobile Design Patterns
Mobile Web 2.0 eBook by Futuretext
OpenGardens Blog
Wireless Mobility and Mobile Web 2.0 Blog
Openwave’s Best Practices in XHTML Design
Opera’s Making Small Devices Look Great
Sender 11: Mobile Interaction Design
Small Surfaces
mobile UI / UX / interaction design
WMLProgramming Yahoo Group
Busy Yahoo Group and Mailing List discussing WURFL and Mobile Web Development
Yiibu
mobile design

Mobile Web Development Tools

BlackBerry Wireless Handheld Browser Content Developer Guide
dotMobi
Company that controls the .mobi TLD.
Google Gears for Mobile Devices
Framework for Windows Mobile 5 and 6 and Android phones
Mobile Browser Compatibility with JavaScript, AJAX and DOM features
WMLProgramming Yahoo Group
Busy Yahoo Group and Mailing List discussing WURFL and Mobile Web Development
WMLScript Reference
Language reference for WMLScript, companion scripting language for WML
WURFL
Wireless Universal Resource File
WURFL Pro
Public Repository of the Wurfl DB
WURFL Test Suite for Mobile Devices
Test Suite for Web Standards Support on Mobile Devices

Mobile Markup Validators

Feed Validator for Atom and RSS
Validates the format of Atom and RSS feeds.
ready.mobi
Evaluates mobile-readiness using mobile best practices & standards.
W3C Link Checker
Checks for broken links and anchors in XHTML and HTML documents.
W3C Markup Validation Service for XHTML and HTML
Validates XHTML, XHTML-MP and HTML markup (and other niche markups standardized by W3C).
W3C MobileOK Checker
Validates mobile-friendliness of a web document using W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0.

Mobile Markup Specifications

Comparison of XHTML Markup Flavors
Comparison of XHTML MP versions and XHTML Basic
Device Description Structures
An expression language for the structured categorization of devices in content adaptation
WML Language Reference (PDF)
Openwave’s reference guide for WML
WML Specification (PDF)
WML Language Specification
WMLScript Reference
Language reference for WMLScript, companion scripting language for WML
XHTML Basic 1.1
XHTML Basic 1.1 Standard
XHTML Mobile Profile (PDF)
Open Mobile Alliance specification for XHTML Mobile Profile
XHTML Mobile Profile and CSS Reference
OpenWave’s reference guide or XHTML-MP and CSS.
XML 1.0 Standard
XML-based mobile markup languages strictly adhere to XML syntax rules.

Mobile Industry

Browsing on Mobile Phones – Nokia Research (PDF)
Differences between XHTML MP, XHTML Basic, WML, i-mode, and HDML?
Wild evolutionary path of mobile markup
dotMobile Switch On! Mobile Web Developer Guide
Guide for developing compliant .mobi mobile web sites.
Fierce Mobile Content
Mobile Content and Mobile Marketing News
Fierce Wireless
Wireless Industry and Technology News
Geek.com Mobile
Mobile technology news
mobiThinking
Help for marketers to understand and exploit new opportunities in the mobile web.
mobiThinking – Best and Worst of the Mobile Web e-book
e-book from mobiThinking reviewing the best and worst mobile web sites
MocoNews.net
Mobile content and mobile industry news
RCR Wireless
Mobile technology, wireless operators, wireless broadband industry news
Sender 11: Mobile Interaction Design
There Goes Dave
Mobile Web News
WAP Review
Mobile Web News and Reviews
Wireless Week
News and Analysis for Wireless
Yahoo News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
Wireless and Mobile Technology News at Yahoo News

Mobile Developer Communities

Global Authoring Practices for the Mobile Web
Luca Passani’s GAP document about mobile web design and development
Info about Opera Mini Request Headers
Mobile Monday Global
Monthly Monday-evening networking events for the mobile industry
Server-Side Capability Detection for Mobile Devices
A two-part series from dev.opera.com
Verizon Developer Program (WAP and BREW)
For WAP and BREW development and partnerships.

Academic Research

Device Fragmentation of Mobile Applications
Academic research paper analyzing aspects of fragmentation of mobile applications.

Mobile Web Analytics

AdMob Metrics
Popular Devices Surfing the Mobile Web by Region
DeviceAtlas Explorer
Compare Characteristics of Thousands of Mobile Devices
Opera’s State of the Mobile Web
Mobile Industry Insights from Opera

Table of Contents: Beginning Smartphone Web Development

2009-12-22T07:41:00.000-08:00

Part 1: Getting Started with Mobile Web Development

Introduction to Mobile Web Development
Introduces the mobile industry, mobile users, and the Mobile Web.

Set Up Your Mobile Development Environment
Prepares for Mobile Web development by setting up your desktop and server environment.

Part 2: The Syntax of the Mobile Web

Markup Languages for Mobile Web Development
Teaches the markup and style languages of the Mobile Web: HTML, XHTML, XHTML-MP, WML, CSS2, Wireless CSS and CSS Mobile Profile.

Device Awareness and Content Adaptation
Uses the WURFL and DeviceAtlas mobile device databases to identify web traffic from

mobile phones and adapt mobile markup to target specific mobile devices and browsers.

Adding Interactivity with JavaScript and AJAX
Enriches a Mobile Web site with interactivity powered by mobile JavaScript and AJAX.

Part 3: Advanced Mobile Web Development Techniques

Mobile Web Design and Usability (authored by Rajesh Lal)
Improves the design and usability of your Mobile Web pages to help the mobile user easily and rapidly achieve their goals.

Enhancing Mobile Web Pages for Smartphone Browsers
Investigates the advanced features of smartphone browsers, including iPhone, Android, Palm webOS, BlackBerry, Nokia Series 60, Opera Mobile, and Windows Mobile.

Part 4: Deploying into the Mobile Ecosystem

Optimizing Mobile Web Pages
Optimizes a Mobile Web page by compressing document size, reducing web server transactions, and coercing

mobile browsers into caching Mobile Web content.

Validating Mobile Markup
Validates mobile markup syntax, styles, and overall site readiness using validation services from W3C, dotMobi and other organizations.

Testing a Mobile Web Site
Tests a Mobile Web site using mobile browser emulators and actual mobile devices.

Deploying a Mobile Web Site
Releases a Mobile Web site into the ecosystem, distinguishes between Desktop and Mobile Web traffic and acquires mobile traffic using on-page and off-page mobile SEO.

How to Play Well in the Mobile Ecosystem
Identifies and adapts to requests from transcoders. Defensively fortifies a Mobile Web site to discourage transcoding of mobile markup.

The Future of the Mobile Web
Explores industry projections and expert opinions about the future of the Mobile Web.

Part 5: Appendices

Sample User-Agents for Mobile Devices
Provides user-agents from smartphone and featurephone mobile devices.

Sample HTTP Requests from Mobile Devices
Provides HTTP request headers from smartphone and featurephone mobile devices.

Glossary
Definitions for mobile industry acronyms, jargon and technical terms.

Case Study for Smartphone Browser Caching
Examines the actual caching and concurrency behavior in smartphone browsers.

Beginning Smartphone Web Development: Building Javascript, CSS, HTML and Ajax-Based Applications

2009-12-20T01:08:00.000-08:00

Coming December 31, 2009 !

Beginning Smartphone Web Development: Building Javascript, CSS, HTML and Ajax-Based Applications for iPhone, Android, Palm Pre, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Nokia S60

In this book, Gail teaches the web standards and fundamentals specific to smartphones and other feature-driven mobile phones and devices.

Shows you how to build interactive mobile web sites using web technologies optimized for browsers in smartphones
Details markup fundamentals, design principles, content adaptation, usability, and interoperability
Explores cross-platform standards and best practices for the mobile Web authored by the W3C, dotMobi, and similar organizations
Dives deeps into the feature sets of the most popular mobile browsers, including WebKit, Chrome, Palm Pre webOS, Pocket IE, Opera Mobile, and Skyfire

By the end of this book, you’ll have the training, tools, and techniques for creating robust mobile web experiences on any of these platforms for your favorite smartphone or other mobile device.

You’ll learn how to:

Build interactive mobile web pages that comply with industry standards and best practices.
Develop web sites using the markup languages of the mobile Web: XHTML-MP, Wireless CSS, and WML.
Use Mobile JavaScript and Ajax for client-side web interactivity.
Adapt the syntax and design of mobile web pages to target smartphone models.
Enhance mobile web pages to target advanced features of smartphone browsers.
Validate and compress mobile markup to optimize for network transmission and browser performance.
Simulate smartphone browsers using emulators and development tools.

Who is this book for?

Mobile application developers and their managers need to learn mobile web technologies because it’s in their economic interest. Time-to-market and opportunity costs are significantly lower for web-based mobile applications than for native ones.

Desktop web developers at software companies and IT departments of non-technology businesses need to learn mobile web technologies to meet the demands of managers who will soon be asking them to “mobilize this web site.” These developers will want to do the minimum work possible to maximize the compatibility of their mobile web sites. The standards-based approach advocated in this book will allow them to build gracefully adaptive and portable mobile web experiences that perform well across mobile browser platforms.

Widget Design for Mobile Device

2009-12-11T01:02:00.000-08:00

Mobile Widgets are the latest trend on mobile devices, Here is the Presentation I gave on designing Mobile Widgets at Maemo Summit, Amsterdam Netherlands, 11th October 2009

Ten Tips For Designing Mobile Widgets 2009 Maemo Summit Amsterdam

Welcome: Small Interface

2009-12-02T00:48:00.000-08:00

The website is meant to be a tutorial for developing user interface for small devices.

Mobile User Experience

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