Develop a Samsung Mobile Widget for the i8910 HD and win BIG with Widgets
Written by LBSzone
Thursday, 25 June 2009
This year's Samsung IQ competition is now open and the best Mobile
Widget for the Samsung i8910 HD this year will take out a £15,000 first
prize, while second and third place winners will receive £8,000 and
£5,000 respectively.
Win BIG with Widgets... read on for competiion details from Samsung Mobile Innovation
This year's Samsung IQ competition is now open with full details
and support published to help you develop a Samsung Mobile Widget for
the i8910 HD.
There is a lot of excitement surrounding this device, particularly
at the Symbian Foundation. This is the first phone to launch since the
formation of the Symbian Foundation and to celebrate they are
co-sponsoring the event with us.
The best submission this year will take out a £15,000 first prize,
while second and third place winners will receive £8,000 and £5,000
respectively. All winners will also have the opportunity to have their
entry distributed through Samsung's MORE WIDGETS service. This feature
is already included on the i8910 HD, but you'll soon be seeing it on a
lot more Samsung handsets in the marketplace.
Why Samsung Mobile Widgets?
We are using Samsung IQ this year to introduce Samsung
Mobile Widgets and get you thinking about the opportunities they
present to developers.
You can find out more about Samsung Mobile Widgets from the Samsung IQ
2009 resources page in the Knowledge Base, but here are the highlights:
- Follows the W3C draft standard
Samsung Mobile Widgets follow the W3C draft standard for widget packaging and are delivered as WGT files.
- Install to the home screen widget tray
In the Touch Wiz UI, Samsung Mobile Widgets install to the home screen
widget tray. They can be dragged from the tray to the home screen, and
are launched and run directly on the home screen. This makes it
possible to have multiple active widgets running simultaneously. The
i8910 HD home screen supports up to three separate views, so that users
can switch between different sets of widgets for different occasions.
- Support for multiple pages
Samsung Mobile Widgets support multiple HTML pages. This gives you the
opportunity to offer your users richer experiences by creating
multi-view widgets, and makes it possible to provide fully localised
content based on separate pages for each locale.
Like all widgets Samsung Mobile Widgets are based on standard web
technologies including dynamic HTML, CSS, JavaScript and asynchronous
XML requests. It is undoubtedly due to the relative ease with which
these scripting languages can be mastered (compared to native
languages), and the level of functionality that they offer the
developer, that widgets have become so popular. This is evidenced by
the numerous tools that have recently become available to assist mobile
developers building widgets.
Freedom to create
The possibilities for your Samsung
Mobile Widget are limitless and that's why we've deliberately left the
choice of category open. We want to see what you build when you're
given complete freedom.
The winning widgets will be those that provide an innovative solution
to a current problem and improve the experience for the Samsung Mobile
customer. They could even be widgets that you have already created
modified to run on the Touch Wiz UI.
The only thing we can't be flexible on is the deadline. All widgets
must be submitted by Friday 14th August 2009 for judging. Winners will
be announced in late August.
You can find a range of technical information on Samsung Mobile Widgets at the Samsung IQ 2009 resources page in the Knowledge Base
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