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Custom Color Picker for Windows Phone by Spaso Lazarevic
This article explains how to create a custom “discrete” colour picker page for Windows Phone.
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Nokia notifications on the Asha software platform by jappit
The Nokia Notifications API (introduced with the Nokia Asha software platform 1.0) provides a mechanism to deliver app-specific push messages from a remote server to a Java app. Notifications bring several advantages over alternative approaches (for instance, periodical server polling) including the following:
This article shows how to implement a complete system that allows the setup and delivery of Nokia notifications. Read more…
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Going forward the wiki moderators will be choosing 2 wiki articles every week to feature, instead of the single article and video highlighted previously. We’re getting so many great articles about both Windows Phone and Nokia Asha Software Platform that this is the only way we can make sure both platforms are treated fairly!
Nokia Asha 501
To celebrate this change, for the next four weeks the author of the featured Nokia Asha featured article will be one of the very first developers to get their hands on a brand new Nokia Asha 501. The devices are still on order, but they’ll be sent as soon as they arrive from the factory to our offices!
Check out all our featured articles on the Wiki – or for a brief overview see the blogs – all, Nokia Asha, Lumia.
This week we are featuring two articles. One of them is Getting Started with Nokia Asha SDK Templates by Tomi_.
The templates in the Nokia Asha SDK are great assets for getting a quick start in Nokia Asha Java ME development. This article explains how to get started with code templates provided with Nokia Asha SDK.
The article briefly introduces the new UI templates in the SDK and demonstrates how to use a template to create a gallery app for Nokia Asha software platform. The only prerequisite for this article is basic understanding of Java ME development.
Read the article and learn how to utilize best the new fresh Nokia Asha UI.
This week we are featuring two articles. One of them is Splatting 2D blood in games built with MonoGame by this_is_ridiculous.
If you are a hard core mobile game developer, I’m sure the title of the article would interest you. This week’s featured article is about developing 2D action games on Windows Phone – games that include shooting, fighting and more importantly blood 
“If you develop a 2D action game there is likely to be tons of shooting, sword fighting, maiming and killing: if you want it to be properly dark and gory you’ll need to be able to add buckets of blood to your scenes, and you will want this blood to stay in the level for as long as possible. That’s exactly the same situation we (me and my team-mates) are now in – while developing an engine for our new game we came to the point that we need the blood splatters to stay on the level.” Read more
This article illustrates an important aspect of developing 2D action games – blood spatting. The article contains a buildable example and covers drawing texture maps (decals), shaders and how to keep track of decals.
Read the article and let us know about your action games on Windows Phone.
HTML Page parsing using HTMLAgilityPack by Vaishali Rawat explains how to parse the content of any HTML page using HTMLAgilityPack. HTMLAgilityPack is a .Net library which scans the HTML page and provides a DOM to us which then can be used to fetch required values from the page’s content.
This week’s featured article is How to debug Windows Phone HTML5 Apps by dan.ardelean.
Do you develop HTML5 Applications for the Windows Phone? This week’s featured article by Dan, shows you how to debug HTML5 applications on Windows Phone.
In this article, Dan talks about a tool called WEINRE (WEb INspector REmote). Weinre is a debugger for web pages, like FireBug (for FireFox) and Web Inspector (for WebKit-based browsers), except it’s designed to work remotely, and in particular, to allow you debug web pages on a mobile device such as a phone. The article covers how to install WEINRE and use it to debug HTML5 apps on Windows Phone.
Read the article and let us know if it’s useful to you!
Porting MIDlets from Symbian to Nokia Asha by skalogir
This article provides instructions on how to port existing MIDlets written for Symbian to Nokia Asha software platform. The article covers a number of porting aspects ranging from heap memory limitations, image processing, virtual keyboard, persistent storage, location aware MIDlets, etc.
There are also companion articles How to develop Java ME applications on Symbian and Porting MIDlets from Nokia Asha to Symbian which help you write code to address the biggest possible market of Nokia devices.
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This week’s featured article is Implementing advert in Windows Phone app using Nokia NAX with CSharp by Spaso Lazarevic.
Nokia Ad Exchange (NAX), powered by Inneractive is one of the ways of placing advertisements in your Windows Phone applications . This article is a step by step tutorial to add NAX to your applications. The tutorial is very comprehensive, it covers everything from registering and downloading the NAX SDK to displaying a banner ad in your Windows Phone application.
Read this article and monetize your Windows phone applications using NAX.
Sharing Cinemagraphs in your Windows Phone 8 App by AlexSorokoletov
Nokia provides all Windows Phone 8 devices with a very nice app called Cinemagraph which allows one to create, edit and share animated pictures, or “cinemagraphs”. You can find out more about Cinemagraph on this blog entry.
This article explains how to add Nokia Cinemagraph sharing to your Windows Phone 8 application. In other words, after reading this article you will know how to share “Cinemagraphs” in your own applications on Windows Phone 8.
