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Nokia Lumia documentation updates

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We’ve been busy making updates to the Nokia Lumia Developer’s Library.

To start with, a new article, How to adapt to Lumia phones’ hardware features provides best practices for adapting your apps for the hardware features of Nokia Lumia phones, and to make sure that your apps will run smoothly across Windows Phone 8 device portfolio. Besides providing techniques on how to deal with the varying hardware features and characteristics, we also discuss some of the UX aspects of adapting your app across devices. Furthermore, the article comes with a new Hardware Info example application demonstrating the implemention of checks for the availability and characteristics of device hardware features at runtime.

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Expanding the 3DK – now with Lumia 520 goodness!

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Lumia 520 shell modelWith our announcement of the cool new Nokia Lumia 520 this morning, we wanted to share with you some exciting related news: the Lumia 520 has a removable back, and we’re adding the model of the back to our 3D Developer Kit (3DK).

The zip file is now available on our 3D printing wiki page as a zip file containing two STP files: one for the shell and one for the buttons.

We want to give a special thank you to our friends at Makerbot for helping us to tweak the models to be 3D printer friendly. (There’s also a nice write-up at Windows Phone Central about the 3D printing demos we’re doing with Makerbot at our Mobile World Congress booth. Check it out!)

We’ve been very impressed with what we’ve seen so far in the 3D printing arena, especially with the now-concluded challenge on IdeasProject. We can’t wait to see what great ideas you come up with next!

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)

Nokia launches new developer products at Microsoft //BUILD conference

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This is an exciting time for everyone in the Nokia developer community. Nokia has introduced a unique set of developer tools and services with the Nokia Premium Developer Program and Nokia Ad Exchange, the Windows Phone 8 SDK has arrived, and a range of new Nokia Lumia devices is starting to show up in stores!

Richard Kerris at BUILD

Last week, we were thrilled to announce our new developer tools and services at //BUILD, Microsoft’s premier developer event, to help developers build amazing apps for the Windows Phone platform.

Nokia was invited to be part of the Day 1 keynote where Richard Kerris, VP Developer Relations, announced all developers attending //BUILD would receive a Lumia 920 from Nokia. The reaction was overwhelming! Over the course of the event, we had a number of developers stop and tell us that they are excited to develop for Windows Phone 8 and impressed by our products, especially the unique design, clear display, incredible camera, and world-class maps.

Nokia also had a well-placed booth where over 1000 developers stopped by to find out more about the new Nokia Premium Developer Program, Nokia Ad Exchange and NFC. We distributed programmable NFC cards that allowed developers to literally “tap” their shiny new Lumia 920 to get more info on NFC app development.

Nokia had the privilege of presenting a tech session at BUILD. In this session, Steve Robbins, Chief Architect – Nokia Music, presented a coding session called ‘Nokia Music Windows Phone 8 App-to-App APIs ‘. You can watch this session here and download slides here. The session was well received and the coding detail was highly appreciated by the audience.

Here are some great early reactions from our loyal developers!

We’re excited too. We hope you’ll watch the videos, check out the Nokia Premium Developer Program and Nokia Ad Exchange, and blow us away with your new Windows Phone apps!