[FOWA 2009]: Your App + Mobile Widgets = Awesome

Joel Moss (Codaset)

Announced as a talk about widgets for non-iPhone devices. My question: How many non-geeks actually use widgets on a non-iPhone?

  • What the bloody hell is a widget? What is a mobile widget? Basically… it’s an app. No surprise here…
  • How many have iPhones? Lots of hands raise, but less than 50%. Problem with building with app for iPhone: you need to know Objective-C.
  • What if… wouldn’t have to learn new language, works on more than one device, is very easy to do?
  • Mobile widgets can be built with HTML, CSS, Javascript – stuff we already know!
  • Going to show demo widgets, which can be downloaded for learning purposes.
  • «brave man – @joelmoss is building a widget live on stage» – well, not really but kinda.
  • .wgt files are actually just .zip files with other file extension. Recognized and testable on Opera.
  • Live demo of widget on phone – it shows up but tiny tiny. Would be good to be a little better prepared… ;-)

Sanj Matharu (Vodafone)

That’s it… Ok, I’m back to my initial question.

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02.10.2009 · Developement, Web

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