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  • LiMo Foundation and GNOME Foundation Partner to Catalyze Further Open Source Innovation

    Alignment between these two key organizations will accelerate mainstream adoption of open source technologies and will empower open source developers worldwide

    THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS – 26 July 2010 – LiMo Foundation and GNOME Foundation today announced a key partnership with the objective of collaborating closely on open source software innovation. Starting immediately, LiMo Foundation will become a member of GNOME Foundation’s Advisory Board and GNOME Foundation will become an Industry Liaison Partner for LiMo Foundation. This development represents a natural formalization founded upon the significant use of GNOME Mobile software components within Release 2 and Release 3 of the LiMo PlatformTM.

  • Korea LiMo Ecosystem Association Holds Inaugural Meeting

    Cooperation amongst the top players in the Korean Mobile Industry to boost the Korean application developer ecosystem

    LONDON, ENGLAND and SEOUL, KOREA – 10 May 2010 – LiMo Foundation, a global consortium of leading companies from the mobile industry, today announced the formal inauguration of the Korea LiMo Ecosystem Association (KLEA) on May 4 in Seoul, which aims at catalyzing the Korean mobile application developer ecosystem and generating innovation upon the LiMo Platform. The event attended by dignitaries from the Ministry of Knowledge Economy, The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Samsung Electronics, SK Telecom, KT and LG Telecom amongst others, saw the election of Hoojong Kim from SK Telecom as the Chairperson of KLEA.

    KLEA will leverage the LiMo Platform to create LiMo World, an application development, publishing and distribution program that will act as a single point of entry for Korean developers wishing to develop for the LiMo Platform and will provide them with the necessary tools and localization support that will springboard them into the international mobile application market.

    "With KLEA, the leading Korean mobile companies which have a long history of innovation are uniting to unleash the apps potential of the Korean developer community for the benefit of a broader...
  • Open Letter to the Wholesale Applications Community

     

    Dear Industry Colleagues:

    Further to the public announcement of 15 February 2010, I am very pleased to write this open letter to the initiators of the Wholesale Applications Community on behalf of the Board of LiMo Foundation offering a) our full support, b) our committed participation, and c) our immediate practical assistance in a spirit of whole-industry cooperation.

    It is clear to us that the highly complementary areas of focus, shared belief in true openness and common industry vision create an exceptional opportunity for deep and long-term collaboration between LiMo Foundation and the Wholesale Applications Community to release unfettered innovation across the industry and fully ignite the mobile internet in a way that is compelling and life-enhancing to consumers everywhere.
BONDI Web SDK v1.0 released
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Written by Matt Swan, Technology Manager, LiMo Foundation   
Tuesday, 15 June 2010 17:04

Some of you may have missed the recent news of the v1.0 release of the LiMo-sponsored BONDI Web SDK, which is downloadable here. This tool, developed in the open by LiMo member companies Aplix and Azingo, makes it much simpler to develop mobile web widgets that conform to the OMTP BONDI v1.1 specifications. This is a key industry standard which is being considered for adoption by the global alliance of operators known as the Wholesale Applications Community (WAC).

Using only HTML, CSS and Javascript, web developers can now create advanced mobile phone apps that access mobile features such as sending and receiving SMS or email, finding the user’s current location or capturing a photo.

The SDK includes an emulator that implements most of the BONDI APIs so that it is possible to run and even debug your web widget using breakpoints without access to a BONDI-enabled handset. This doesn’t eliminate the need to test your app on real devices but it does mean that you can iron out most of the bugs earlier and it reduces the time spent getting it working well on the handset. If you happen to work for a company which is a member of the LiMo Foundation, you will find that the SDK also works with the LiMo platform simulator so your widget can be tested in that environment as well.

To assist with rapid UI prototyping, the SDK contains an “HTML Preview” window which updates immediately when any changes are made to the app’s source code. There are no excuses now – give your app the compelling interface that will attract those millions of users and keep them hooked!

If you’re not familiar with the BONDI APIs yet, the SDK can help by providing a browsable list of all the available BONDI APIs, auto-completion when you begin to type in a BONDI API, and extensive Help documentation.

The SDK can be installed either as a plug-in to Eclipse or as a self-contained package which includes everything you need to get going, emulator included. It supports Windows, Mac OS and Linux.

Once your widget is ready for the limelight, you can package it, sign it with a digital signature (if you wish) and publish it, all using the SDK. OMTP, the industry body which created the BONDI specs, provides a widget gallery here. Check it out to see what’s been done with BONDI so far, and then get coding!
 
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