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Implementing advert in Windows Phone app using Nokia NAX (Featured Article)

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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.

 

UI Clinic – Series 40 full Touch, April 2013 (Featured Video)

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Our UI expert Jan Krebber reviews two apps submitted by Nokia Developer members: Know your phone by Mustafa Mansour Hassanien and Package Tracker by Shai Ifrach of Futuresoft. Jan shares the app reviews and provides details on how the UX of these applications might be improved, as well as providing general guidance that will help with the design of any app.

In addition, Jan takes a quick look into where to place ads in an app, based on a request from last month’s UI Clinic.

You can download the slides from this session at: http://www.slideshare.net/nokia-developer/ui-clinic-series-40-full-touch-april-2013

Find out more about developing for Series 40 at:http://www.developer.nokia.com/Series40 and more about design for full-touch Series 40 apps here: http://www.developer.nokia.com/Resources/Library/Full_Touch/#!index.html

Check out the current webinar schedule here:http://www.developer.nokia.com/webinars

How to use SQLite in Windows Phone (Featured Article)

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SQLite.png This week’s featured article is How to use SQLite in Windows Phone by mfabiop.

A very common task for most of the applications is to store and access data. Almost all applications have to store some kind of user data for a later use. Databases are preferred for storing any such structured data which would persist in the application.

The article shows how to setup SQLite for your Windows Phone 8 projects; the steps are well documented with appropriate screenshots in the article. Additionally, with a simple code example, the article also demonstrates how to use a SQLite database to store/retrieve structured data in your applications.

Read the article and  implement SQLite in your WP applications.

Maps and location API’s for Windows Phone (Featured Video)

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Learn how to use the location-related capabilities of Nokia Lumia hardware, Windows Phone Location APIs, and the HERE location platform, including HERE Maps, HERE Drive, and HERE Transit. Starting with the basics — retrieving location information from the phone and registering for background location notifications — this webinar then looks at the map-related services APIs available for your Windows Phone apps for Nokia Lumia smartphones, including APIs for map rendering, geocoding, and routing controls.

A downloadable copy of the slides from the session can be found here.

For detailed documentation on the maps features in Lumia smartphones see Guide to WP8 Maps API and don’t forget to check out the examples at Nokia Developer Projects.

For more details about developing for Nokia Lumia smartphones visit: http://www.developer.nokia.com/Develop/Windows_Phone/Learn/

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Getting Started with Unity 3D on Windows Phone (Featured Article)

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This week’s featured article is Getting Started with Unity 3D on Windows Phone by roguecode.

Unity 3D is an engine and tools which make it very easy to create cross-platform 3D games. This article demonstrates how to get started with Unity 3D on Windows Phone with a code example.

The example discussed in the article creates a simple scene where a ball bounces around, as shown in the above video. The article shows you the basics of setting up the project, and then demonstrate how to fire events in a Unity3D C# script, and react to that in your Windows Phone project code.

Read the article and let us know how you like it!

REST APIs and geolocation in Nokia Web Apps (Featured Video)

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In this webinar Ville Vainio, Chief Engineer at Nokia, provides a coding demonstration of two apps. The first example illustrates how to use the Geolocation API to determine the current location of your user. The second shows how to access a REST service from your web app, giving your app access to powerful APIs delivered as web services.

The examples apps can be found here:

Check out the current webinar schedule here: http://www.developer.nokia.com/webinars

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App performance on Series 40 phones (Featured Video)

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In this Ask the Expert session on the performance for Java apps on Series 40 phones, Michael Samarin of Futurice provides an overview to the key issues that should be considered when designing Series 40 Java apps for optimum performance.

Michael covers issues such as selecting the technology for your GUI, memory considerations, obfuscation, objects, variable, and caching among others. After that Michael answers attendees’ questions on various subjects.

You can download the slides from this session at: http://www.slideshare.net/nokia-developer/ask-the-expert-app-performance-on-series-40-phones

Find out more about developing for Series 40 at:http://www.developer.nokia.com/Series40

Check out the current webinar schedule here:http://www.developer.nokia.com/webinars

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How to listen to radio in Java ME (Featured Article)

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This week’s featured article is How to listen to radio in Java ME by skalogir.

The article explains how to check for the availability of  the two available approaches on Series 40 devices for retrieving media content  from the network: Streaming over RTSP and Progressive download over HTTP.

It then covers an example application demonstrating how to implement progressive download with Java ME within the context of an online radio application.

Read the article and implement your online radio applications.If you already have an application based on this approach share them in the comments.

J2ME clients for JSON services made easy: the complete implementation (Featured Article)

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This weeks’s featured article is J2ME clients for JSON services made easy: the complete implementation by marcelobarrosalmeida.

The author shows how an J2ME application can be used to access web services encoded with JSON (JavaScript Object Notation).  The article also discusses how to test the web service and how to create a complete application for S40 phones.

If you’re implementing J2ME applications and are using a JSON web service, this article is for you!

Audio, video, and MIDI music playback on Series 40 phones (Featured Video)

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In this webinar video, Michael Samarin, Director Developer Training and Evangelism, at Finnish company Futurice introduces you to handling media playback in Java™ apps running on Series 40 phones. He talks about using the Mobile Media API (JSR-135) and Advanced Multimedia Supplements (JSR-234).

Michael provides step-by-step guidance for including audio, video, and MIDI music playback features in your applications and games. He also shares techniques for playing media files downloaded to Series 40 phones and explains how your apps can consume streaming-media resources.

You can download the slides from this session at: https://www.slideshare.net/nokia-developer/audio-video-music-on-series-40

Find out more about developing for Series 40 at:http://www.developer.nokia.com/Series40

Check out the current webinar schedule here:http://www.developer.nokia.com/webinars