Application Manager Service API - Example Widget Documentation

About this document

This document describes the Application Manager Widget application for S60 5th Edition SDK. Target audience are developers who wants to develop application rapidly using application management functionalities.

About this Product

Widgets are lightweight Web applications developed using the same well-known standards-based Web technologies – AJAX, CSS, HTML and JavaScript – used to create Web pages. Developers can use it as a reference and testers can use it to test the relevant functionality. This widget is intended for S60 5th Edition SDK. Developers should be able to develop professional applications.

Product intent

Example Widget Application is designed to run on S60 5th Edition SDK. It is designed such that a developer takes it as a reference to create useful applications for any functionality supported on SDK. It will be designed to let the testers to test the functionality.

Product limitations

Example widget is not intended to give full featured implementation.

Specification

The example widget uses the WRT 1.0 API. The Web Runtime (WRT) environment supports the following Internet technology standards:

HTML 4.01
The basic HTML standards are supported.

XHTML 1.0
The basic XHTML standards are supported.

CSS Level 2 revision 1 (CSS 2.1)

JavaScript 1.5 (ECMA-262 3rd Edition)
The standard JavaScript features are supported. The WRT environment also provides some additional features that are mobile device specific.
The following additional JavaScript features are supported in the WRT environment:

• Utilizing the underlying user input features of the mobile device to interact with the user
• Self-updating widgets
• UI navigation using either a cursor or tabs
• Rotating the screen: portrait and landscape orientation
• Launching S60 mobile applications
• Localization framework with automatic detection of the device language settings
• Getting information on physical device functionality and controlling such features.

Example Description

Application Manager Service API enables the user to:

• Retrieve information about the applications installed
• Retrieve information about the user installed package
• To install an application, launch any one of the installed application
• Applications on different platforms take advantage of these APIs for finding and launching an installed application

Use Cases

Following section lists the functional use cases taken as requirements:

• Install the application
• Get User installed package
• Get Handler application based on specific MIME type and Document
• Launch the application based on any one of the following MIME type, Document, UID.
• Launch the application in Chained (Embedded) or Standalone mode

User Interface

1. Use the file - Open option to open the widget under <Installed-5th-Edition-SDK>\S60WidgetExamples\AppManagerWidget.wgz.

2. Go to Application folder and click on the AppManagerWidget to start. Once you start the widget, it will ask your application permission to access data and then start the application.

3.GetList: This API helps the user to do the following:

• Get user installed package
• Get Handler application based on the following:
  • Document name
  • MIME Type

.Its range is “UserInstalledPackage”, ”Application. Enter valid range and it will display the list of application.

4. You can get Filterd list by providing MINE type. It will display filtered application using the specified type

5. LaunchDoc: Launches the application based on the given document. By providing valid path and document mime type, it will launch document. It supports launching in both modes depending on the application capability:

• Standalone  Mode
• Chained Mode(Embedded Mode)

Note: But the Valid instance of IAppManager interface should be instantiated. In Asynchronous mode, it sends the notification when the launched application dies. In LaunchDoc either Document or MimeType should be present.

6. LaunchApp: Launches the application based on the UID. It supports launching in both modes depending on the application capability:

• Standalone  Mode
• Chained Mode(Embedded Mode)

Developer gives valid UID of the application to launch the application. In Asynchronous mode, it sends the notification when the launched application dies.

Internationalization

Example Widget Application does not support internationalization

References