Opera Software wants developers to create a widget and win! Enter the X-Widgets challenge
Written by LBSzone
Monday, 20 October 2008
Opera Software wants you to create a widget - Opera Widgets are handy
small programs which you can download free and use on your desktop,
mobile phone or TV.
The latest release of Opera Mobile at release 9.5 adds Opera Widgets to deliver a one-click mobile Internet experience. Supporting this new featureset, Opera is promoting the X-Widgets challenge - a challenge to developers to create cross-device widgets or “X-Widgets” that can be used on both mobile phones and PC/Mac computers.
Opera is launching the updated SDK with a developer competition called the "X Widget Challenge". Opera is offering $10,000 in cash prizes for the best cross-device widget submissions.
Opera is stepping up and awarding generous cash prizes for the best overall X-Widgets submitted.
In addition you can win t-shirts and $50 Amazon gift cards if you're one of the first 20 qualified entrants. The best weekly widget will be rewarded with a $300 Amazon gift card.
If your X-Widget is among our top picks, we will promote it on widgets.opera.com and you might also find it bundled in our next widget product release!
Check out our Opera Widget SDK which has an emulator and access to the Opera Widget manager on Windows Mobile and Symbian phones to help you test and play with your creation
Several Opera Widgets are now pre-installed in the Opera Mobile 9.5 beta builds. Additionally, Opera offers downloadable widgets at widgets.opera.com.
Opera always encourages more user-generated widgets and therefore recently updated its Opera Widget Software Development Kit (SDK). This SDK will enable developers to quickly and easily create widgets using standards-based Web technology. The Opera Widgets SDK now includes two new features:
- Opera Dragonfly debugging tool - Develop faster with this tool for debugging JavaScript, inspecting Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and the Document Object Model (DOM). Find your errors and get your widget right.
- Widget manager for on-device testing – Widget managers for S60, UIQ and Windows Mobile are included with in the SDK for testing widgets directly on the mobile phone.
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