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Michael Bierman
Nokia
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Install the extension
- Create your first widget project
- Define your widget's functionality
- Preview your widget
- Debug your widget
- Package your widget
- Test your widget in an S60 device
- Distribute your widget
Getting started with the Nokia WRT Extension for Dreamweaver and Web Runtime widgets
Some 4 billion mobile phones are in use in the world today. With 40% of all Internet users having mobile access, these small screens are rapidly becoming a major channel for accessing the Internet globally.
The mobile Internet offers significant opportunities to grow your web presence by capturing and retaining customers. To most effectively realize these opportunities you need a way to deliver your website or web service that is accessible to mobile users and optimizes their experience. The best way to achieve these goals is by creating a Web Runtime (WRT) widget.
WRT widgets are small, task-focused web applications that are installed and run on S60 devices in the same way as native applications. WRT widgets use the capabilities of the WebKit-based Web Browser for S60, but have no browser chrome. In addition, WRT widgets can offer enhanced features that take advantage of S60 Platform Services, such as the ability to obtain a device's location. So you can now optimize your web experience and extend it with uniquely mobile features while working with the web technologies—HTML, JavaScript, and CSS—you already know. And when you have completed development, Ovi Store offers you access to over 50 million Nokia device owners around the world.
Now making the most of these opportunities is even easier with the Nokia WRT Extension for Dreamweaver. This extension enables you to create WRT widgets easily and quickly by leveraging the excellent web authoring capabilities offered by Dreamweaver. This article shows you just how easily you can create a WRT widget in Dreamweaver. For a quick walkthrough of the steps involved, watch the following simulation.
Click the image to watch the simulation.
Requirements
In order to make the most of this article, you need the following software and services:
Dreamweaver CS4
Nokia WRT Extension for Dreamweaver
Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.5 or later
Firefox
Firebug
Forum Nokia Remote Device Access Services
(optional) S60 platform SDK (available for Microsoft Windows only)
(optional) S60 device from Nokia
Prerequisite knowledge
You should have a basic working knowledge of Dreamweaver, as well as skills in developing with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
About the author
Michael Bierman is senior product manager for web and web runtime tools at Nokia. Bierman has many years of experience in web and software development tools and web technologies. He was the senior product manager for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) at Adobe, where he launched SVG within Adobe and served as product manager to the SVG Viewer and to Adobe products. Before joining Adobe, Bierman was at Sun Microsystems with the Java marketing team, and spent two years as a product manager at Microtec/Mentor Graphics working on compilers for embedded systems. Bierman also used to be senior product manager at eBay.
