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Samsung Mobile Innovator to allow third party Widget development

Starting today, developers will be able to access a new website dedicated to Samsung’s TouchWiz Widget development for Windows Mobile and feature phones…

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Starting today, developers will be able to access a new website dedicated to Samsung’s TouchWiz Widget development for Windows Mobile and feature phones. Similar to Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6.5 Widgets development can be done using HTML, JavaScript and CSS. This will make cross platform development painless and fast.

Unlike complex native languages widget development utilises 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.

The new TouchWiz portal site will feature tools & SDKs, Discussion boards, articles and emulators.

Source: Samsung via Techmeme

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