24 March 2009
Mobile Widget Development Screencast – How Twiggy Works
Elliott has created an 8-minute video that explains how mobile widgets work, from a technical perspective (see below). Hope you enjoy it.
Other news on the Twiggy front
* We’ve decided to opensource the project on GitHub, when we’re done, so you can all download the code and use it however you please.
* Mike has updated more screenshots of the progress of the Twiggy site:
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Melissa
# March 24, 2009 - 5:59 pm
Great job so far Carsonified team. I am enjoying watching you guys develop twiggy. Will this be able to work on the Google phone?
Paul Barnett
# March 24, 2009 - 7:53 pm
Sad to see Carsonified reduced to entering a Betavine competition for revenue – very risky.
Ryan
# March 24, 2009 - 9:15 pm
Hey Melissa – I’m not sure – I’ll check it out :)
Ryan
# March 24, 2009 - 9:16 pm
@Paul – We’re not entering the competition. We’re just helping Betavine get the word out :)
Paul Randall
# March 24, 2009 - 9:50 pm
A very cool screencast. I didn’t realise they could work like that.
The design is also very original, although I have to agree on a point made on the other post about using images straight from Google search. I presume permission had been asked after the video was made.
The drawings coming out of Mike’s phone are very cool; it’s just a shame they are reversed. The grid is also a nice touch.
Matthew Langham
# March 25, 2009 - 8:46 am
@Melissa: Currently the mobile widgets will only work on certain S60 mobile phones including the N95, N96, N78. More devices are planned over the next months. You may want to check out the Betavine site for additional details.
Ian Ozsvald
# March 25, 2009 - 12:49 pm
Hi Elliot, good screencast. Can I offer a tip on the audio?
I create screencasts for companies. Making the audio noise/hum-free really makes a screencast more watchable.
I’m blogging a screencast tutorial series but I’m a few posts away from going into audio techniques.
However – there’s an easy fix for you – export the audio, load the audio into a tool like Audacity (open-src), sample a section of noise when you’re not speaking to train the denoiser, use the denoise tool, it’ll remove the hum leaving you with a pretty clean voice, add the audio track back into the video in place of the original track
Quicktime Pro can extract/import audio if you lack other tools.
I’m happy to advise if you want to email me, I work to promote screencasting so the technique is more widely used, I’m always happy to offer advice.
Cheers,
Ian.
Melissa Leon
# March 25, 2009 - 2:46 pm
Thanks for checking guys. Its a cool mobile widget anyhow.