Samsung Mobile Widget Development Guide

Samsung Mobile developer portal, Samsung Innovator, has released ‘Samsung Mobile Widget Platform’. It allows developers to author widgets which are optimized to run on Samsung Touch Wiz UI.

The documentation is divided into the following sections:

The 38 pages documentation,’Samsung Mobile Widget Development Guide‘ is divided into the following sections:

● About This Document – The section you are looking at now, which includes a brief introduction, release notes, and copyright notifications.

● Introducing the Samsung Mobile Widget SDK – Describes how to install, update, and launch the SDK.

● The Widget Perspective – Describes the user interface of the Samsung Mobile Widget SDK and describes how to customize it.

● Creating a Widget Project – A simple guide to creating a project that you can use to quickly produce widgets for Samsung TouchWiz devices.

● Supporting Multiple Devices with Overrides – Using one widget project to support many different devices by putting customized files in override

directories.

● Tutorial Sample – A simple widget that uses JavaScript, CSS, and images.

● Debugging Widget Projects – How to use publicly available debugging tools to find errors in your projects.

● Widget-Development Tips – Techniques and suggestions that will help you get the most out of the SDK.

● SDK Menu Items – A reference to the menu items that are specific to the Samsung Mobile Widget SDK.

Unlike complex native languages, widget development utilizes the comparably simple web authoring technologies HTML, JavaScript and CSS. Once developed they can be run on any Samsung device running the TouchWiz UI, and indeed, with some minor adjustments any platform or device featuring a web run-time engine. This could be a mobile device from another manufacturer, a PC or even an appliance such as a Samsung Series-7 television.

(source : theunwited.net)

Samsung has announced how to share or distribute authored Widgets with others too. Here