Come on! Mobile Industry Review is now live on the Ovi Store! Woo!
Last week I sat down for 20 minutes and created an Ovi Store application for Mobile Industry Review. It allows you to browse the MIR feed and the Mobile Developer TV youtube feed.
I did this using the all new Ovi App Wizard which is simply fantastic. It takes a series of RSS feeds that you supply, along with a logo and a few colours and — boom — creates a stand-alone Symbian mobile application. For free.
The wizard is an excellent piece of engineering.
In practice, you can actually have a rough application created in the App Wizard in about 20-30 seconds. However I flipped open Fireworks and got a bit creative with the logos to make sure I was entirely happy. I decided to make the application free — but I could have just as easily told Nokia to charge for it!
Once I’d created the app in the wizard, I then pressed ‘publish to Ovi’. And boom. Job done. A few days later I got a notification to say that my Ovi Publish account was active and that my first application was approved and live.
Get in!
I’ve already had 22 page views and 5 users! 😉
(It only went live this morning)
So if you have a Nokia handset nearby, check out the app and see what you think. Here’s the direct url: http://store.ovi.com/content/36457
If you’d like to mobilise your content into the Ovi Store with the App Wizard, it’s literally a piece-of-simplicity. And free. Here’s that url: http://www.oviappwizard.com/
Excellent work, Nokia!
But if there was a decent RSS reader, there'd be no need for 100 different apps. It is quite cool though.
According to Ovi Store:
“Sorry, this item is not available for the Nokia N97 mini. “
It says it's not available for the N97
Oh no!
Ahhhhh!
Nice one Ric!
Great application Ewan but Shawn says that it is not available for N97.Do you have any idea for it?
I'm going to find out about this…
Shawn, Nokia reckon it 'should' work — do you see it in the store?
Ewan, did you now how to add twitter feed in a Oviappwizard application?