Daily Archives: September 16, 2012

Introduction to using Remote Device Access to test Asha Touch apps (Featured Video)

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Antti Mattila, Software Developer at Futurice, provides a guide to using the Remote Device Access service as part of your Series 40 Java apps development process.

Mattila shows you how to locate the service and book a phone. He then demonstrates a number of apps running side-by-side on a Asha Touch phone and in RDA, to show how RDA provides a useful environment for testing games and apps on phone models you don’t own.

For more information on or to use RDA, please visit www.developer.nokia.com/RDA

Playing whacking game with Accelerometer Sensor (Featured Article)

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Playing whacking game with Accelerometer Sensor by Noel.Anonas

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This article explains how to write a simple and fun game using the Sensor API and Gesture API.

The article demonstrates the Gesture API and Sensor API using the context of a simple game called Whack-A-Bunny, that runs on Series 40 Full Touch devices. To play the game the users shakes the phone vertically (up/down). After shaking the phone a bunny will appear from a random hole – tap the bunny before it disappears to get points. The main game screens are shown below.

This article has been awarded a grand prize under the Asha Touch Competition 2012Q3.