Mobile Phone Programming for Multimedia

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jscheib@uiah.fi. ABSTRACT. This compact hands-on tutorial introduces a novel way of creative. mobile phone programming for multi-media that is easy to learn …

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Mobile Phone Programming for Multimedia
Jürgen Scheible
Media Lab
University of Art and Design, Helsinki
H?eentie 135C, FI-00560 Helsinki,
Finland
+358 40 550 9268
jscheib@uiah.fi
ABSTRACT
This compact hands-on tutorial introduces a novel way of creative
mobile phone programming for multi-media that is easy to learn
and fun. It was created in 2006 by the author of this paper and
was published as a free online tutorial at
http://www.mobilenin.com/pys60/menu.htm. Pedagogically finetuned,
it teaches the programming of a large set of mobile phone
features including camera, sound, video, messaging, telephony,
location, Bluetooth, graphics, Wi-fi, GPS and networking. The
problem in the past has been that developing applications on the
mobile platform was time consuming and required a steep
learning curve. Also, mobile platforms have often been closed or
were too restricted. Mobile Python, also known as ‘Python for
S60′ (PyS60) offers a crucial turning point here. It provides a
Python execution environment for the mobile phone. It is
developed by Nokia Research as an Open Source Project. This
tutorial uses PyS60 in combination with a set of code examples,
turning it into a ready working toolkit….