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Clock My World – Featured Project

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ClockMyWorldIcClock My World  by Pipould is our Featured Project of the week. This Qt/QML based project provide users with the sunrise/sunset timings of their region (established using GPS). In addition, users also have the option to look at various sunrise/sunset timings around the world with respect to their current location/timezone.

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The primary reason for us to select this project the fact that its users have consistently developed it over the last year. The result is great source code and Wiki documentation, and an installable file in its Files for anyone who wants to try it out on their device.

Thanks to the project team for your dedication – we hope you will continue to do the same in future as well along with some new cool projects.

- Vineet Jain (on behalf, Projects Moderation team)

Gesture Based Speed Dialer – Featured Project

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GSPDThis week we have selected Gesture Based Speed Dialer by Hadaytullah & Sri Harsha as our Featured Project. The foremost reason for selecting this project is its concept/innovation. We also liked its clear description, detailed explanation in in its Wiki, and the availability of its source code etc.

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The project which is based on Windows Phone platform showcases as how different gestures(specifically tilting & shaking) can be utilized to dial contacts saved in the phone book of the device. The user can also assign different gestures for  a particular contact where every gesture would mean a different action(like tilting up mean dialing, tilt left means SMS etc.). To know more about its functionality & usage , its Wiki section can be referred.

The project also plans to implement more of functionality using combination of more complex gestures about which we would also be looking forward.

Lastly I would like to thank project owner(s) for hosting this brilliant idea with Projects & hoping  more of such project would be made in future.

- Vineet Jain (on behalf, Projects Moderation team)

Permissions update made some projects private

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Recent software update improving the permission system of projects made some public projects private. The projects are still accessible by all users, but their visibility status is “private”. This could lead to some weird behavior, and, for instance, announcement created are not shown on the Projects front page.

There is an easy way to fix the problem: Simply navigate to permissions settings page (Admin -> Permissions) and click the “Make public” button.

CartoonMe – Featured Project

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cartoonme_logoThis week’s Featured Project is CartoonMe by somnathbanik. We chose this project for a number of reasons with foremost being how various gestures can be utilized on a Windows Phone device.Along with that the other factors include the nice utilization of project infrastructure, availability of source code(for both Windows Phone 7 & Windows Phone 8) , a good number of followers depicting that the project is quite among the developers etc.

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CartoonMe allows users to choose a picture from phone’s gallery or take a snap from device’s camera & select different objects with facility to drag those objects(here comes the gesture part in play) & put them anywhere on the picture & later it as well. The user also has the option to share the customized picture on Facebook etc.

It is worth mentioning that a related wiki article is also written by the project owner which describes the usage of different API’s etc. utilized in the project.

Lastly we expect more of such ‘cool’ & ‘nice’ projects to be developed by people out here & make the Projects more richer & resourceful.

- Vineet Jain (on behalf, Projects Moderation team)

LWUIT_RLinks – Featured Project

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LWUIT_RLinks_LogoLWUIT_RLinks is our Featured Project of the week. We chose this project as it utilized the LWUIT framework fantastically which resulted in a clean & cool user interface.Along with that, porting from its Android version to Series 40 is a another factor to add for its selection.

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RLinks is basically the Reddit client which demonstrates as how to make a reader app using the LWUIT framework for Series 40. The full description of the app along with its design implementation, prerequisites etc. can be found in its Wiki  section.

Lastly we hope to see more of ‘cool’ apps for Series 40 platform in future, made using the LWUIT framework which is becoming more & more popular among developers due to its ease of use.

- Vineet Jain (on behalf, Projects Moderation team)

ElectricityMate – Featured Project

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ElectricityMateWant to measure electricity consumption at your home? Use ElectricityMate , this week’s Featured Project. The project has been chosen because we like the simple and innovative approach it uses for measuring power use .

ElectricityMate measures the electricity consumption(in KWh) by taking into count the blinking of  LED present on electricity meters. The blinking of LED light is observed by checking the illumination values on video frames that are captured from the camera preview buffer of  a Windows Phone device(Lumia 900/920).The Files section of the project has a video(.mp4) file which shows the app in action.

Last but not the least we hope that project owner & all its members/contributors will keep on contributing to it continuously to make it more lively & a wonderful project.

- Vineet Jain (on behalf, Projects Moderation team)

podcasts (Featured Project)

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2715-87cb911a1aced53d3801b3377cc42368podcasts is a Series40 Java application that packed with news, education, music etc, and user can also search  for popular podcasts and add their own. It also comes with advance player controls like playback control speed and audio quality with graphics equalizer.

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If you don’t like in-app advertising: there is a paid of the app available for you.  To know more about the application features/functionality and the flow, see project wiki.  You feedback and suggestions are most welcome for project enhancement. Feel free to raise tickets or start your discussion here.

– Somnath Banik (on behalf of the Projects Moderation team)

Compass (Featured Project)

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2611-425751dbb371dfb313504bcb875c656bCompass is a Nokia Developer Windows Phone application that has been ported from Qt to Windows Phone 8. This application combines Nokia Maps with compass sensor. It also allows user to determine the bearing to the desired direction.

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This application has been tested on Nokia Lumia 920 and developed using Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows Phone 8. To learn more on the project follow up on the wiki page.

– Somnath Banik (on behalf of the Projects Moderation team)

In-application Purchase Product Catalog (Featured Project)

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2537-e90da87212966995003ab4b881778c59In-application Purchase Product Catalog shows the use of IAP with multiple DRM protected items for Series 40 applications. This example is based on LCDUI Form, and demonstrates:

 

  1. How to purchase DRM protected items from Nokia Store.
  2. How to purchase multiple items within one application.
  3. How to design with minimal amount of code.
  4. Easy and re-usable code for user interface.

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This example was developed with Nokia SDK 2.0 for Java and is compatible with Series 40 touch and non-touch devices with in-app purchase support. To learn more about the UI flow, compatibility and implementation of the example see project wiki.

– Somnath Banik (on behalf of the Projects Moderation team)

Treats for the holidays!

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masonry layoutBy Tomi Paananen

It doesn’t usually take big things to make you go “nice!” I bet you know the feeling of sometimes discovering something totally new and funky, but yet so simple. A good example of this is Masonry Layout project. It introduces a fresh and simple idea that looks like it was meant to be developed for Windows Phone.

And don’t forget Series 40 – we sure haven’t! The opportunities for developers just keep getting better, especially with the latest touch and type and full touch phones. If you happened to miss these nice In-Application Purchasing examples, here’s a reminder: Product Catalog example shows how to manage several purchasable items in your app, and Simple Purchase Flow demonstrates the steps the user goes through when buying an item. The code is neat and simple; just copy-paste it into your awesome project and do the necessary modifications!