Liverpool FC Match & News Centre app: web apps for Asha Touch (Featured Video)

Kathy Smith, Mobile Manager, at Liverpool FC and Sanjay Mistry, Operations Director, InfoMedia, talk about the Liverpool FC Match & News Centre for Nokia phones.
Kathy explains that the app provides access to news, club information, and match details. In addition, videos are offered as a premium service. ‘Nokia devices are massively popular in the territories where we have large fan bases,’ says Kathy.


The app was developed for Liverpool FC by InfoMedia. InfoMedia chose to create a web app because of the company’s background. In addition to finding the Nokia Web Tools easy to install and use, Mistry notes that the app was built using three of the templates provided with the tool. ‘With the faster rendering of the (Nokia Asha Touch) handset we were able to build out richer experiences … to use higher quality images, use better technology to ensure the user flow and (navigation) swiping … were more intuitive than a standard website,’ says Mistry.

Create your web apps for Asha Touch phones:http://developer.nokia.com/series40webapps

Pinch zooming with Gesture API for Maps in Java ME (Featured Article)

Implementing Pinch zooming with Gesture API for Maps in Java ME by bandarap

The Maps API for Java ME makes it possible to embed Nokia maps into Java ME applications. However, if these apps need to support pinch zoom functionality for  maps then they have to implement custom pinch zooming in their applications. This week’s featured article covers this pinch zooming implementation using Gesture API in Java ME.

The article has a buildable source code example available for download. If you plan to use maps in your Java ME apps – please try this out and let us know if the article was helpful.