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Nokia Developer webinar: User-centric design of Series 40 apps

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Putting the user at the heart of your app designs is the key to creating winning apps. Our upcoming webinar walks you through a design example focusing on helping a user determine where they are, to facilitate the use of a location based application for Series 40 Touch and Type phones.

After giving an overview of the available methods for determining the user’s location, the webinar will discuss some of the fundamental drivers behind mobile app design, such as user mind set, use context, and small screen limitations.

The webinar will explore practical design implementations to enable the user to estimate their location, with a focus on the ways in which you can translate technology into an easy-to-use application.

The presentation concludes with an overview of the Series 40 UI design tools and services offered by Nokia to help you deliver winning app design.

Overall, this session guides you on how to make complex technology accessible to Series 40 users.


Nokia Browser 2.0 brings faster, richer web experiences to Series 40

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Nokia Browser 2.0A new browser for Series 40, Nokia Browser 2.0, is bringing a faster, better way to experience the web to Series 40.

The cloud-based servers powering Nokia Browser 2.0 reduce data consumption by up to 90%, all without compromising the user experience. Sites also load up to three times faster. It’s accomplished by using cloud-based caching and compression.

As well as a faster browsing experience, Nokia Browser 2.0 helps users save money on operator data costs. Users can control how they consume data, by monitoring the overall data usage for a browsing session, or altering the quality of the images being downloaded.

One-touch access to search, popular sites and web apps is also present in the new browser, as is one-click sharing on social networks, achieved by the browser remembering Facebook and/or Twitter logins.

The new browser supports all forms of Series 40 – Touch, QWERTY and non-touch. It is available for the newest Nokia Asha devices and other popular devices such as the Nokia C3-00, Nokia X3-02 and Nokia C2-03. It will be pre-loaded on all future Nokia Series 40 devices.

Nokia Browser 2.0 is a free, optional over-the-air download – http://store.nokia.com/content/51924

It is available in 87 languages in over 200 countries and territories.

The new browser is great news for developers creating web apps for Series 40. Nokia Browser 2.0 makes it easier for users to find, install and use your standards-based web apps for Series 40. Since its launch in 2011, Nokia Browser has supported web apps and it now boasts a catalogue of over 10,000 of the latest apps.

Your tool for building Series 40 web apps is Nokia Web Tools

Learn more -

Documentation

Code examples

Videos 

 

Lumias for US students – Submit 2 apps, get a free Nokia Lumia 800

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Calling all student developers in the US. College students. High school students. Heck even elementary student engineering whizzes.

Nokia Developer and Microsoft want to give you a flashy new Nokia Lumia 800 in exchange for two cool apps.

Here’s how it works. Any student developer who publishes two qualifying apps to the Windows Phone Marketplace between now and May 31 will get a free Nokia Lumia 800.

No strings, pretty simple. This is way sweeter than saving up to buy a new device, so what are you waiting for? Ready.Set () {Code}.

To see the full offer visit the Microsoft Tech Student facebook page.

You need to submit an entry via the offer form to be eligible to receive your Lumia 800. Official rules can be found here.

To qualify each app must:

·         Use Windows Phone 7.5

·         Be published to Marketplace for the first time during the Publishing Period

·         Perform as described

·         Implement Fast App Switching

·         Not be created using a prebuilt app framework (e.g., AppMakr, FollowMyFeed etc.) MSDN code samples and VS starter kits are eligible app starting points.

·         Students who have previously received a Windows Phone in one of our promotions for development of new apps in 2012 are not eligible to receive a device in this promotion — as determined by a previous delivery address, or a previously winning App Hub ID number or publisher.

We are always looking for new, innovative apps to showcase at our events and on Nokia Developer. If your app is hot enough we may even ask you to join us at one of our programs. In the meantime make sure you come see us when we are in your city at one of our hacks, Mobile Monday events or other developer programs.

Learn more now on the Microsoft Tech Student facebook page

Remote Device Access brings free access to Series 40 test phones

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Nokia Asha 303 redThe Remote Device Access (RDA) service has expanded, and now offers a range of Series 40 phones. If you’re not familiar with RDA, it’s a handy service that enables you to test your apps on phone models you may not have physical access to.

It works like this: you logon to the RDA service and are offered a selection of phones — usually several of each model. You pick a phone you want to use, then book it for up to three hours. (If you have a specific testing schedule, you can also make advanced reservations.)
Starting your session opens the remote access desktop; this displays the phone’s screen and a virtual keyboard. You then use the phone through the keyboard or, for touch screen phones, with your mouse through the virtual screen display.
Installing your apps is easy — you use the remote desktop’s install feature to locate the app’s jar file and upload it for installation. Once installed, you locate and run the app as you would on any Series 40 phone.
To assist with testing, RDA also offers features to transfer files to the phone and take screenshots.
RDA offers the following Series 40 phones: Nokia 6260 slide, Nokia 7230, Nokia Asha 300, Nokia Asha 303, Nokia C2-01, Nokia C3-00, Nokia X2-00, and Nokia X3-02.
New phones and new features are being added to RDA all the time; you can follow the developments on the RDA team’s twitter feed: @nokia_rda
To find out more about RDA and the available Series 40 phones, visit developer.nokia.com/Devices/Remote_device_access/

Qt SDK 1.2.1 update released, containing fixes for Nokia N9 development

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The Qt SDK 1.2.1 is now available for download. It  brings increased stability to the Qt SDK 1.2.
The updated SDK includes Qt 4.8.1 desktop installers for Mac and Windows in addition to Qt source packages.
Qt 4.8.1 is the first patch release to the 4.8 series with over 200 functional
improvements, mainly for Qt’s desktop and embedded platforms. For more details
please see the Qt 4.8 library
release blog post on the Qt blog.

Bug fixes and added functionality for Nokia N9 developers
The added functionality in the Qt SDK 1.2.1 relates mainly to improved runtimes
for testing. The Simulator now supports both landscape and portrait
orientations. In addition, the Qt Quick Components in the Simulator have been
upgraded to use the same version as is on the device. There are now three
separate QEMU images – one each for PR1.0, PR1.1 and PR1.2.

In the last weeks there have also been some other updates, posted on the Nokia N9 developer blog, that will help you with your Nokia N9
development. The updates include the Harmattan developer library and UX documentation as well as a new example application showcasing key Harmattan
APIs. The application shows how to utilize Qt Mobility interfaces (e.g. maps,
multimedia and sensor data) in applications.

Download the Qt SDK 1.2.1 

 

Demo your app @ Mobile Monday Silicon Valley, Boston or Austin

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Nokia Lumia 900 ATT smallIf you are in the US and have a cool Windows Phone app, we want to help you show it off to hundreds of people at a Mobile Monday event.

If you have a unique, cool, or downright amazing app, tell us about it for a chance to join us at the upcoming Mobile Monday event in your area. Mobile Monday is a global organization that brings together the mobile community in cities around the world.

We are sponsoring Mobile Monday events in Silicon Valley, Boston and Austin this month. Along with demos of our latest smartphones – including the award-winning Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone – we will pick several developers to show how apps become amazing experiences on Nokia devices and the Windows Phone platform.

Here is when Nokia Developer will be at a Mobile Monday near you:

Mobile Monday Silicon Valley  – April 16th
Mobile Monday Boston  – April 23rd
Mobile Monday Austin – April 30th


How to be part of the Mobile Monday showcase:

  1. Have an app that works on a Nokia Lumia Windows Phone device
  2. Send the following brief details via e-mail to nokiadeveloper@thelucidway.com
  • Your name, company and contact information (include your e-mail and phone)
  • A link to your app in Windows Phone Marketplace, or link to the private beta of your app in Windows Phone Marketplace
  • A brief description and any screenshots of your app
  • Why your app is amazing, cool, or unique

Selected developers will be notified seven days prior to the event. That’s it. We look forward to seeing you at Mobile Monday later this month!


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New location based APIs launched at Where Camp 2012

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Maps API for Java MEOver the last few days we have been at Where Camp 2012 announcing the latest developments in our portfolio of location based APIs.
 
Among the changes we announced is a new version of our Maps API (version 2.2) which combines the functionality previously provided by the separate Maps API for Javascript and Places API for Javascript. 
 
In addition, we  also introduced two RESTful web services: RESTful Maps and the new RESTful Places API, which is currently in beta. 
 
For Series 40 developers we have the new Maps API for Java ME 1.0, which introduces KML support as well as high performance mapping, search and routing capabilities.
 
Lastly, we also provided a sneak peek at our updated Mobile HTML5 framework,
which provides mapping and voice navigation functionality in an easy-to-use HTML5 library.
 
For more information on these new APIs, you can start exploring them now at http://developer.nokia.com/maps