Read the latest news – hot off the press – of special interest to all Nokia developers.
Your New Year’s resolution: Learn and win more with the Series 40 webinars.
You already know that we’re pumping up our Series 40 webinar offering for 2013, but now we can reveal that we’re also creating new possibilities to learn and win. While we’re continuing with the monthly draw, which is now for two Series 40 phones and associated goodies each month, we’ll also be rewarding contributions to the Nokia Developer wiki and the best Series 40 apps and games created by webinar attendees.
We’re pumping up our webinar offering for 2013, and your favorite format is back — our experts presenting the topics that interest you most, with the usual lively Q&A afterwards. But we know how much you appreciate the opportunity to get your questions answered by our experts, so we are introducing two new styles of webinar: “Ask the expert” and “UI clinics”.
Our experts, your questions answered
In the monthly “Ask the expert” sessions, you’ll have the opportunity to pose those thorny questions you have been wrestling with to one of our experts. Sessions covering games, communications and networking, and app performance are planned with others to follow. You can ask questions during the sessions, but to get the best response we invite you to submit questions in advance — so our experts can ensure you get the best answer possible.
The first “Ask the expert” session will be hosted by Michael Samarin of Futurice and focuses on game development. It runs on Tuesday 15 January (8 a.m. London time) and Wednesday 16 January (8 p.m. San Francisco time). You can submit your questions now by e-mailing them to webinar.experts@nokia.com. Details of the other sessions will be available on the webinars page as usual.
The doctor is in
In the “UI Clinics”, you’re invited to submit your apps and related UI questions to get feedback from our UI/UX expert, Jan Krebber. You may think that submitting your app for review sounds a bit scary, but it won’t be: our goal is to ensure everyone comes out better off. You can still ask questions either in advance or while attending the webinar. But, if you’re interested in discussing your design live on-air, you can simply send your app along with any specific questions to webinar.experts@nokia.com and confirm you’re happy for us to show your app, either running or through screenshots, during the webinar. Jan will review your app in advance of the session, and if it’s chosen you’ll be invited to join Jan live.
The first clinic is on Tuesday 29 January (8 a.m. London time) and Wednesday 30 January (8 a.m. San Francisco time).
Another great year ahead for Series 40
Building on the break-out success of the Nokia Asha range in 2012, 2013 promises to be another cracker year for Series 40. So make the most of those long winter nights and join us in a webinar, pose a question to our experts, and get the feedback to have your app design singing in tune. We have a great four months of content lined up for you. And that’s not all stay tuned for more great Series 40 news as we move from spring into summer.
The schedule for January 2013 is already set with sessions covering use of persistent storage in your Java ME apps, a deep dive into four templates for Series 40 web apps, porting your apps from Symbian, and an introduction to Nokia Ad Exchange (NAX) among others. The first session kicks-off on 8 January. You can find more details about these — the first of next year’s sessions — on the webinars’ page, why not check them out today and get 2013 organised!
Congratulations to our November Learn and Win prize winners!
Our 14 winners attended Nokia Developer webinars during November and answered a test question in our follow-up survey. The winners are:
* Ron Hardy of the USA will receive a sweet Nokia Asha 311.
* Adrian Stoicuţa of Romania will receive an equally sweet Nokia Asha 306. Adrian is a two-time winner, having also won a Nokia DC-16 Portable Charger in October.
* Atifa Perveen of Pakistan won a Nokia DC-16 Portable USB Charger.
* Henry Jr. of the Philippines won a Nokia WH-930 Purity Stereo Headset.
* Nokia Asha lanyards with Asha 4Gb USB sticks loaded with S40 tools and training material were awarded to: Ventsislav Ivanov, Kapila Nissanka, Maurilio Silva, Muhammad Ahmmad, Taneung, Vinodh Kumar Raju, Shintu Dhang, Zacharia Mwangi, happyDrim, and Vitali Reif.
‘It’s nice to be rewarded for participating in something as fun, educational, and inspirational as your Nokia webinars’, says winner Ron Hardy. ‘I will put my prize to good use and enjoy it often.’
You still could be a winner. The contest has one more month to go, and we will give away more Nokia Asha phones and accessories. To enter, register for any full-hour Nokia Developer webinar during December, attend the webinar, and then complete a follow-up survey with the correct answer drawn from the session you attended.
Congratulations to our October Learn and Win prize winners. Jukka-Pekka Lasanen, Adrian Stoicuta, Michal Kaminski, and Muhammad Salman Iftikhar each attended one of our Nokia Developer Webinars and answered a test question posed in a follow-up survey.
Here’s what they won:
Adrian informs us that “My black Nokia N9 will be very happy when he meets this black DC-19”. We just love it when our products find a good home.
If you want your chance at one of these prizes, we will give away Nokia Asha 311 phones and accessories each month for the rest of the year. To be eligible, all you need to do is register for a full-hour Nokia Developer webinar and complete a follow-up survey with the correct answer drawn from your session.
We’re kicking off a free webinar training series to help you use the new Nokia Asha Touch features to their fullest and achieve:
Check out the following brief descriptions of sessions we have scheduled for you. If you want more detail, check out our webinars page for full descriptions of each topic.
If you could not join us for the intro series, don’t worry. Slides and recordings of all sessions are available on the Nokia Developer webinars page and in our Slideshare account. You can also join us next week for a repeat of the popular Introduction to Full Touch UI for Series 40 webinar presented by Andreas Jakl.
Introduction to Full Touch UI for Series 40
Get the most out of Series 40 Touch phones by learning how to create a UI that perfectly fits the full-touch interaction style. Check out this encore presentation of the popular webinar that introduced the new full-touch UI.
Publishing to Nokia Store
Publishing your Series 40 applications to Nokia Store is easy. Join us to learn about the Nokia Publish tool and get inside knowledge about how to distribute your apps in a way that can maximise your consumer reach.
Developing Series 40 Java apps for multiple UI patterns
Learn about tools and techniques for targeting multiple Series 40 UI patterns with your app.
Design tips for Series 40 game developers
Learn design tips for creating great Series 40 Game interactions and key structures such as menus and how to leave a game.
Optimise Nokia Maps apps for Nokia Asha Touch
Learn how to customise and extend the default UI of the Nokia Maps API for Java™ ME by creating custom map components for Nokia Maps-based applications that tap the advanced features of the full-touch UI on Series 40 phones.
Coding Series 40 Java apps for performance
Find out how to build Series 40 apps with asynchronous architecture and code patterns that deliver maximum performance.
Series 40 web apps using Nokia Web Tools 2.0
Learn what’s new in Nokia Web Tools 2.0 and how to build Series 40 web apps for a full-touch UI.
Note: If you have a web site, blog, Facebook page, or other place where you connect with developer colleagues, you are welcome to embed any of the slide presentations from our Slideshare account. Just open the presentation you think your colleagues would like and click the “Share” link.
Are you developing apps for Nokia Series 40 phones? Then you will want to attend two Nokia Developer webinars this month:
Adapting Series 40 Touch and Type apps to full-touch UI
In this webinar, you will learn key development skills for adapting your Series 40 Touch and Type Java™ applications to take full advantage of the new Nokia Asha Touch phones. Java expert Michael Samarin from Futurice will show you how to use the new APIs and adapt your apps’ screen dimensions and input methods. During live coding demonstrations, Michael will use the NetBeans IDE and simultaneous installations of the new Nokia SDK 2.0 for Java™ and the earlier Nokia SDK 1.1 for Java™. Michael will also demonstrate how to build Java apps with multiple configurations for various product groups. So you can target the newest Nokia Asha Touch phones, as well as the large installed base of Touch and Type phones.
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User-centric design of Series 40 apps
Success in Nokia Store is dominated by apps with four- or five-star user ratings. Big companies know this and hire full-time UX specialists to ensure high ratings. But if you can’t afford a dedicated UX specialist, this webinar is for you. UX expert Jan Krebber from Digia will walk you through a simple process of focusing on UX-design principles that are critical for the growing market for Nokia Asha Touch apps. The ideas are easy to follow, and after the webinar, you should be able to apply user-centric design to your own application projects.
The webinar will point out the benefits of a superior user experience, apply the design process to a sample application, and give you a chance to try things yourself in an exercise. After the presentation, possible solutions for the exercise will be published in an article on the Nokia Developer Wiki.
Whether you have created Java apps for Series 40 before or are about to embark on your first, you have an exciting opportunity to take advantage of the great new full touch capabilities of our Series 40 Developer Platform 2.0 devices.
And the best way to get yourself up to speed is through an introductory webinar from our experts at Nokia Developer. Over the next few weeks we have a range of webinars to introduce you to the tools, techniques and technology you need to deliver rich, functional full-touch Series 40 apps for Nokia Asha 305, Asha 306, and Asha 311.
On 27 June and 3 July we are presenting ‘Introduction to Series 40 full touch’, featuring the new APIs, tools and resources. From this webinar you be introduced to the new UI, gain the knowledge of new APIs in the Series 40 platform and be taken on a walkthrough of the tools and resources that will help you develop your apps.
Register for the 27 June session (07:00 UTC)
Register for the 3 July session (15:00 UTC)
Once you’re armed with this new knowledge, you can take in our deeper dive sessions that explain and demonstrate tools within Nokia SDK 2.0, the Series 40 full-touch style guide and much more.
Full calendar – upcoming webinars
The webinars give you a head start on becoming an expert with Series 40 Full touch apps, with the skill and style you need to deliver great experiences.
