BT Friend Finder

By raissa

Suppose you’re waiting for your boss to arrive in the building or that you’re just expecting the arrival of a friend somewhere. Now, imagine if you could just leave the awareness to your cellphone and be warned when the desired person is around - that’s what our new application, BT Friend Finder, does for you. [...]

Long keypress using keycapture

By raissa

While developing Fake Call, we had to find a way of detecting long keypress of an especific key. The solution we found was to keep calling a function that puts the current time in a list when the key is pressed and check everytime if the last value minus the first is equal to the [...]

Fake Call

By raissa

A new application was developed. Fake Call is an application that shows an incoming phone call that does not exist. When activated, it runs in background waiting for the shortcut to be pressed for some seconds and then the phone starts ringing. The user will be able to answer this call and/or end it and [...]

Landmark Receiver and Landmark Sender

By arthur

Using the landmarks API that was posted here a few days ago, two applications were developed: the landmark receiver and the landmark sender. These applications are simple and the point of the is to send a message showing where you are to another person and the message will be processed and converted on a landmark [...]

Small landmarks API

By arthur

A Python for S60 extension was made using symbian C++.
It’s a small API for manipulating landmarks using python, with this API you can add a landmark to phone’s database, remove the landmark, and edit it to see later on “Nokia Maps” application.
With this API is easy to create categories, and get/set some of the atributes [...]

A ‘Whack the Mole’ game

By arthur

A ‘Whack the mole’ game was developed using pys60.
The game is easy to play, you have to hit as more moles as you can, using the 1 to 9 keys, where each key correspond to a hole.
You can donwload the code and the .sis file here

Efforts Competition Champion

By diego

I’m pleased to announce the champion of Efforts Competition.
Hugo Parente has developed a game which uses s60 acelerometer to controls a ball through a maze.
The installation file can be found here.

How to access S60 resources in WRT or FlashLite using PyS60

By diego

Here is an excelent tutorial teaching how to access S60 resources in WRT or FlashLite using PyS60. It was made by WRT effort team.

Making time limited calls using pys60

By diego

Enter telephone number and duration in seconds.

import telephone, e32, appuifw
 
number = appuifw.query(u"number", "number")
duration = appuifw.query(u"duration", "number")
telephone.dial(str(number))
 
def handle_hang_up(status):
if status[0] == telephone.EStatusConnected:
e32.ao_sleep(float(duration), telephone.hang_up)
 
telephone.call_state(handle_hang_up)

Getting Routs

By souto

This example shows, using a gmaps feature, how to get rout from a place to another in Python for s60. You can submit two locations or two GPS coordinates and get the rout.

#routs.py
 
import urllib
from html_parser import *
 
def parser_html(start,end):
rout_link = "http://www.google.com.br/maps?site=local&
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