Nokia is hosting Java full touch webinars, covering various features and fields of Java. Take the chance to learn Java more in-depth, see below for date and topics.

Follow the links to enter the registration page, and sign up for the desired webinar.

Using Nokia SDK 2.0 f

or Java with Nokia IDE for Java ME (Eclipse)

29 June 8 a.m. London; 12:30 p.m. Bangalore; 3 p.m. Singapore (10 a.m. Helsinki)

11 July 8 a.m. San Francisco; 10 a.m. Mexico City; 4 p.m. London (6 p.m. Helsinki)

Series 40 full touch: UI style guide part 1
28 June 8 a.m. San Francisco; 10 a.m. Mexico City; 4 p.m. London (6 p.m. Helsinki)
4 July 8 a.m. London; 12:30 p.m. New Delhi; 3 p.m. Singapore (10 a.m. Helsinki)


Series 40 full touch: UI style guide part 2

10 July 8 a.m. San Francisco; 10 a.m. Mexico City; 4 p.m. London (6 p.m. Helsinki)
13 July 8 a.m. London; 12:30 p.m. New Delhi; 3 p.m. Singapore (10 a.m. Helsinki)


Using Nokia SDK 2.0 for Java with NetBeans

6 July 8 a.m. London; 12:30 p.m. Bangalore; 3 p.m. Singapore (10 a.m. Helsinki)

12 July 8 a.m. San Francisco; 10 a.m. Mexico City; 4 p.m. London (6 p.m. Helsinki)

Using Nokia SDK 2.0 for Java with Nokia IDE for Java ME (Eclipse) in Turkish

5 July 6 p.m. Istanbul,Helsinki 


Open Stockholm Award is Swedish a developer competition where people compete with either their apps or ideas for apps, based on Stockholm’s open data. We hooked up with Peter Drougge who built the great WP-app

om/sv-SE/apps/270e2242-e160-4f05-b70e-b216705349e9">Stockholm Explorer. We asked him about what advice he would give to developers who just started developing, and about an interesting framework of his.

What advice would you give to developers for WP7 who recently started developi

ng? What resources would you recommend?

- Have fun, dig deep and make use of the vast experience available in the community – there’s a huge amount of blogs, tutorials and open source initiatives out there that’ll kickstart anyone in no time at all, seasoned developer or not. Make use of the priority tool we’re talking about: the windows phone. Follow interesting people and sources on twitter so they integrate into the People hub. That way you’ll be able to tap into the grapewine of the developer ecosystem of windows phone, on your phone. I love reverse engineering, but you don’t need to reinvent the wheel – instead, go download open source projects and figure out how they’re put together. Go grab the tools today – there are free versions of them so that won’t event make a dent in your wallet. Get into it, experience it. It’s in motion, It’s now and It’s a blast to be a part of.

Can you tell us a little bit about your framework “LocationServices for Windows Phone” and how it can be used?

- Right at the start of building the first app I could see more and more opportunities where the use of the data at hand would fit nicely, so to save time and keep the development generic I refactored the data layer to a framework – incorporating JSON fetching & parsing, mapping & transforming to observables and strongtyping the requests. Basically it’s a collection of strong typed service calls that turns the JSON result into better suited observable(s), and it’s one of those things that just keeps growing – right now there’s 10, or 11, datasources available, ranging from parking places in Stockholm city, to media from Instagram, to getting the current address from Bing. Every datasource/service used is in some way tied to location-aware results or queries, hence the name LocationServices. It’s free and it’s there to give anyone that needs it a jump in the code so they can focus on other parts of their application. It’ also fully extendable, something i’m planning to write a few articles on soon.

We look forward to that Peter! Thanks for sharing!

Nokia is constantly improving and developing new features for developers, and are now moving to a single sign-on experience for Nokia Publish and Nokia Developer with Nokia account.

Regardless if you are building apps, publishing a game or checking out the latest downloads in Nokia Store – a Nokia account is the key to everything. With the new feature, you will soon be using one account that will give you seamless access to all Nokia services. If you don’t have a Nokia account already, you should head over here to sign up for one.

More details will come regarding this improvement, so check out Nokia Publish Support for updates.

How satisfied are you with the Windows Phone Platform? Please give your input so that Microsoft can better understand your experiences with the Windows Phone developer platform and related dev programs. Your feedback will inform and prioritize the efforts to improve dev satisfaction with the platform.

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Jayway, Nokia and Microsoft hosts a great code camp in Malmö, Sweden, May 23. Whether you want to be inspired by great developers from Jayway or want to show us your great app, don’t miss this code camp! You also have the chance to win a brand new Nokia Lumia 800!

We start with a free coding session. After that we move on to a show&tell – where you can show either your app, or present an idea for an app. Best app/presentation is awarded with a Nokia Lumia 800! Nokia and Microsoft are sponsors and will also attend as a jury.

Hosts:

Dag König, Windows Phone Camp, Microsoft

Mattias Nord, Developer, Nokia

Mario Boikov, Mobile, Jayway

Håkan Reis, UX/WP7, Jayway

Andreas Hammar, .NET/WP7, Jayway

When?

Wednesday, May 23, 16.00 – 21.00

Where?

Jayway, 
Hans Michelsensgatan 9,
 211 20 Malmö

Do I need to bring anything?

Bring your computer, and also great if you download the WP SDK before the event.

Read more and register here

Last week we told you about UTV Indiagames and their great achievement of reaching 100 million downloads from Nokia Store. Now they are accompanied by our Nordic friends Pico Brothers, who just recently also joined the exclusive 100-million club.

With great apps like Youtube Downloader and Milk the Cow, the Pico Brothers surely lives up to their motto of making mobile phones more fun.

The guys behind Pico Brothers are Niklas Karlström and Kristian Engsjö (and also their dog Viggo). Pico Brothers have been developing great apps for Nokia Store for several years now, and have recently also started developing for Windows Phone, so be sure to check out their apps on Marketplace as well.

We congratulate Pico Brothers for reaching this milestone and look forward to more amazing apps that will make our devices more fun to use!

Read more about the Pico Brothers on Nokia Conversations

Don’t miss the upcoming Nokia Developer webinars! The sessions will provide you with great info on various aspects of app development and distribution.

The webinars coming up shortly includes sessions on how to build a Series 40 Web App in one hour, and app development with Nokia Maps for Series 40 phones.

Other planned webinars for May includes Apps development with the Java ME Maps API, Creating a Form based UI using NetBeans.

Missed a webinar? Be sure to look through the recorded sessions, where all the past webinars are available.

100 million. That is a remarkable number. With great titles like Ra.One Genesis and IPL Cricket Fever, UTV Indiagames, part of The Walt Disney Company, is the first developer to achieve more than 100 million downloads in Nokia Store.

Vishal Gondal is the founder and CEO of UTV Indiagames, and has a long relationship with Nokia. He says that Nokia Store is one of the factors that created a gaming boom in India, since it’s really simple to use and the variety of content attracts people in all ages. Hitting 100 million downloads is of course not an easy task. Vishal believes that an important factor is the development of the Nokia ecosystem, and the support Nokia gives to developers.

UTV Indiagames have truly set a new industry benchmark for developers, and they did by applying a hyper local approach. Vishal is now looking forward to launching Indiagames on Windows Phone.

Read the full story about UTV Indiagames and how they gained global success at Nokia Conversations, or see what Nokia’s head of developer, Marco Argenti, has to say at developer.nokia.