GuitarChords widget for S60
October 9th, 2007 | Published in Development, Mobile, Nokia, Nseries, S60 | 3 Comments
It seems that Nokia is taking a page from the record industry and putting out all of their big releases on Tuesdays.
The second big release today was the developer beta for Nokia Web Widgets. This release is really meant for tech developers only, unless of course, you want to download and install a 336MB C++ SDK (requires login), but the point of it all is that pretty soon you’ll be able to install widgets on your S60 mobile phone.
What some people might not realize is that the web browser on S60 devices is based on WebKit, which is the same codebase that’s used on Safari on Mac OS X and the Dashboard widgets built into the Mac OS. So as I test, I decided to see how easy it would be to try and get my GuitarChords widget for Dashboard up and running on the new beta for S60.
After installing the developer beta, I had to make a few changes to the info.plist file, and disable the custom code for the GuitarChords Plugin, and voila!
The application showed up just fine in the emulator and when I clicked on it, the widget launched on the device!
Obviously, I’ve got to do some work on the UI to get it to scale properly, and I’ll probably need to re-think the interaction so that it’s more appropriate for mobile devices, but this isn’t a bad start for 20 minutes of work… More soon….
November 2nd, 2007 at 6:40 pm (#)
Awesome widget, is there a way to make it larger so it’s easier to see?
November 15th, 2007 at 1:12 pm (#)
What the hell? All the obvious chords, which any half-way reasonable player knows by heart, plus many unusual chords that are not often called for, but where are, for example, the augmenteds and diminisheds?
September 26th, 2009 at 11:18 am (#)
Is there an updated version of this?