Wednesday 30 July 2008

Emulator up and running!

The emulator is running correctly, however I have to do a theme, possibly a couple of themes before releasing it to you to take a look at. :)

Once the emulator is finished and up on the internet, I will see about converting it to AIR so you can download it and play.

I was thinking about how the phone would tell between the different swf file types, because we can have swf files containing Applications, Themes, Pictures, Music/Sounds or any other type of data. I was thinking along the lines of having a standard XML file describing the contents of the file. Tell me what you think, or if you have better ideas please tell me!

Tuesday 29 July 2008

Standby Screen Design

This is the first design of the standby screen, it doesn't have any of the other icons on it yet, they are to be designed, but the signal and battery levels are there.

The next thing I'm going to do is a working flash demo, so that you can select menu options, screensaver will play and be some what functional.

Being flash the screen will be able to be completely changed, so don't let the design put you off. The reason I'm using flash is so that anyone can design and create Themes for this OS simply and easily by using Adobe Flash CS3 and a toolkit of components that will put the connections needed to the OS.

Well, I'll get back to work now, and you can comment on the design.

Flash OS

What is Flash OS?

Flash OS is a proposed operating system for the Nokia N95, it will have a flash front-end, and will interface with the phone system via a program. It will be developed under Open Source and will always be free to use, in fact the only thing you won't be able to do under the licence is sell it for money. There will be two stages to the development of this operating system.

The first stage will be a working demo, fully functional, however the original OS will still need to be there.

The second and final stage will be the final operating system, which will replace the mobile phones operating system altogether.

Pictures of the proposed interface are coming, just got to put the finishing touches to them.

What do I need from you?

Well, primarily I would like to know what you want your mobile to do? Ideas on the user interface? Should I include Flash Lite 3 or go for the full Flash 9 player? Basically anything that you would like to see on your phone, please post here.

Also we would like to hear from Nokia C++ programmers, who can do functions for the operating system, graphic artists for those animated and still icons and backgrounds etc., and flash developers. I will be fleshing out all the details over the coming months, so keep your ideas coming.