Lumin App Labs #4: Create stunning imaging apps for Lumia phones (Featured Video)

The Nokia Lumia 920 with Windows Phone 8 is setting the standard in smartphone-imaging technology. In this Lumia App Lab, you’ll learn about creating stunning imaging apps that use the advancements in the Lumia 920 and the potential of the new Microsoft Windows Phone 8.

You’ll learn how to capture superb images and video, control ISO and other parameters, perform multiframe image capture, get direct access to sensor data, and apply special effects. The Windows Phone 8 native camera app includes a feature called ‘lenses’ that makes it easy for users to apply the effects produced by your apps. The presentation explains how you make your apps part of this seamless user experience.

A downloadable copy of the slide from the session can be found here: http://www.slideshare.net/nokia-developer/lumia-app-labs-create-stunning-imaging-apps-for-lumia-phones

Series 40 UX checklist webinar – companion article (Featured Article)

Series 40 UX checklist webinar – companion article by Krebbix

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This article is a companion for the UX Checklist for Series 40 Full Touch webinars held in October and November 2012. It covers both sessions: 31st October 2012 and 1st November 2012.

This webinar provides pointers you can use to perform a basic user experience (UX) check of your Series 40 full-touch app, even if you have no formal experience in UX design. In it we review a list of some of the worst UX mistakes that we found in real-world app testing, and provide some specific solutions to these problems.

Learn and win prize winners for November

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.

Car Trumps (Featured Project)

projecticonCar Trumps is Windows Phone 8 card game for children. This game leverages the use of NFC technology to communicate between two Windows Phone 8 devices. In this game user choose the best feature of a random car and compares the same category to its friend’s car by touching both the devices, and the winner gets both the cards.

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This  application demonstrate the use of ProximityDevice API to transfer data between two devices over the NFC.  The classes, code shipper and the protocol used in this application are noted in project wiki. If you are looking for more information and demo examples on Windows Phone NFC then Opening sockets with NFC could be a good starting point for you.

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

Champion of the Month: João Cardoso, a developer with something to say

Nokia Developer Champion João Cardoso is December’s Champion of the Month and an active participant on the Nokia Developer discussion boards and wiki. Based in Lisbon, Portugal, João was in 1998 a co-founder of AciNet, a developer of human-relations and education solutions, and he is still a manager there. While João became a Nokia Developer Champion only this year, he has already made more than 270 posts on the Nokia Developer discussion board, and he was recently named moderator of the Windows Phone discussion board. In addition, his Nokia Developer Wiki articles span a wide range of topics, including face recognition, storage settings, draggable markers in Windows Phone, and in-app purchasing. Congratulations, João!

Meet Champion of the Month João Cardoso.