Giovanna Pavarani, a Nokia Developer member from Italy and one of our winners, summed up the feelings of many of our winners when she said WWWOOOAAAA!!!!! )))) Thank _you_! It’s nice to win a prize for learning

Charles Surles, Octacore, and wesee each won Asha phones for their participation in April Nokia Developer webinar sessions. @rgunawans scored a Nokia BH-211 headset. Colorful Asha t-shirts were awarded to Johan Sulistiyan, Kapila Nissanka, Giovanna Pavarani, and Mikko Vartiainen (@mvarti).

Winners from our May webinars introducing the new Nokia Asha software platform each walk away with an “elegant and clean Nokia Asha 501” as developer Ventsislav Ivanov (@venvenven) puts it. Each of our May series winners will also receive a USB stick full of developer tools. When Asha 501 phones begin shipping our winners will be among the first to own this great new phone. In some cases our winners may even have their Asha 501 before they’re available to consumers in their country. Congratulations to Ventsislav Ivanov (@venvenven), Vagrant Games, Pochi Mak, Roselle Wednesday Gardon  and Maurilio Silva (@TK2k).

If you missed any of our webinars, all the slides and recordings are available for your review. Watch our webinar calendar for a full training series beginning in August.

For each session we offer you three resources:  a presentation video that focuses on the trainer, a webinar recording that includes all the questions and comments from fellow developers, and a downloadable slide deck with plenty of links to tools, documentation, and demo code.

Opportunities with the new Nokia Asha family

• Presentation video
• Webinar video
• Slides

Introduction to the new Nokia Asha UI

• Presentation video
• Webinar video
• Slides

Build great UI with LWUIT for Nokia Asha software platform 1.0

• Presentation video
• Webinar video
• Slides

For each session, we offer you 3 resources:  a presentation video that focuses on the trainer, a webinar recording that includes all the questions and comments from your fellow developers, and a downloadable slide deck with plenty of links to tools, documentation, and demo code. Here are the links:

Introduction to Nokia Asha software platform 1.0:

• Presentation video
• Webinar video
• Slides

Introduction to Nokia Asha SDK 1.0 beta:

• Presentation video
• Webinar video
• Slides

New features in Nokia Asha web app tools 3.0:

• Presentation video
• Webinar video
• Slides 

We hope you’ll find these slides useful. If you have questions, comments, or development ideas, feel free to contact us at Publisher Support:

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Happy developing!

Kalle
Twitter: @kallenevala

You can attend either of these 3-hour deep dive webinars separately, but you will learn more if you attend both. And don’t worry, Jan will provide a break half-way through each three-hour session!

Join the first webinar, ‘Deep dive into Nokia Asha UI design: fundamentals’, on 29 May at: 7 a.m. London; 9 a.m. Helsinki; 11:30 a.m. New Delhi; 2 p.m. Singapore

Join the second webinar, ‘Deep dive into Nokia Asha UI: designing apps’, on 29 May at: 7 a.m. London; 9 a.m. Helsinki; 11:30 a.m. New Delhi; 2 p.m. Singapore

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.

Check the document for more details on when, why and how to deal with the device hardware features.

Nokia Music API updated to support Windows 8

The Nokia Music API has been updated with three new methods in the MusicClient Class –  get track sample clip, new releases for a genre, and top products for a genre. The API now supports Windows 8 development, including playback of mixes in Nokia Music for Windows 8 – more details will be blogged soon.

Other May 2013 Lumia Developer’s library updates

• An updated NFC Talk example and the related guide, Using NFC to establish a persistent connection, to implement searching for nearby devices over Bluetooth.
• A new example DrumkitX (a Windows Phone 8 port of Drumkit XNA example), implemented using Direct3D and XAudio2 for fast graphics and low latency sample playback.

See Lumia Developer’s Library to check more details on the updates. Enjoy!

With Nokia Lumia 925 we are further strengthening the imaging capabilities first shared with Nokia Lumia 920; the 8.7 megapixel camera on Nokia Lumia 925 is packed with the most advanced lens technology, latest generation of Nokia proprietary imaging software, and optical image stabilization. Read more about the announcement and check out the phone.

Nokia Lumia 925

We have broadened the Lumia reach – from the Lumia 520 to the top with the new Lumia 925 – your Windows Phone opportunity continues to grow:

• The Lumia ecosystem is expanding, with more than 145,000 apps for Windows Phone now available to consumers in 190 countries worldwide.
• Operator billing is expanding rapidly, too. According to Microsoft, the average developer earns three times more in a market that supports operator billing than they do in a market that supports only credit cards. Check out this article from Microsoft’s Todd Brix.

And others have also noticed the benefits of the Windows Phone and Nokia Lumia opportunity:

• In its latest report, Kantar Worldpanel confirms that Windows Phone is the fastest-growing mobile ecosystem. And the latest statistics coming from AdDuplex, an app cross-promotion provider, confirm the strong position of Nokia Lumia in the Windows Phone ecosystem.
• More and more developers and brands are joining the ecosystem or significantly revamping their apps. Try out the latest from Facebook, Hulu Plus, Zinio, GoPro, EA, Imangi Studios (Temple Run), AlJazeera, and Vyclone.

If you haven’t started developing for Nokia Lumia, now is a great time to give it a try. With the Nokia Premium Developer Program for Lumia you’ll get access to a range of tools that will help you power-charge your development. Get started now.

The Nokia Asha software platform represents a major new opportunity for developers, as we expect to sell 100 million of the new-generation Asha smartphones over the next two years.

Many of the most popular applications are already available or in development for the Nokia Asha platform, including CNN, eBuddy, ESPN, Facebook, Foursquare, Line, LinkedIn, Nimbuzz, Pictelligent, The Weather Channel, Twitter, WeChat, WhatsApp, World of Red Bull and games from Electronic Arts, Gameloft, Indiagames, Namco-Bandai and Reliance Games. Many more will be available in the coming months.

You will also get easy-to-use development tools and more ways to sell and promote apps, including the new Nokia In-App Payment tool.

New Nokia Asha SDK 1.0 and Nokia Asha web app tools

The new Nokia Asha Software Development Kit 1.0 supports the development, testing, packaging and deployment of Java apps on the Nokia Asha platform.

New APIs in this SDK include:

• Mobile Internationalization (JSR238)
• Nokia Notifications
• Fileselect
• Image Scaling
• Network State
• Phone settings
• Contact

Learn more and download the Asha SDK 1.0.

The new Nokia Asha web app tools include a Web Development Environment (WDE) and an integrated development environment (IDE) that can be used to create and edit Nokia Asha web apps. In addition, a Web Inspector is included to help developers to debug and inspect elements, as is a new Web Designer Tool for creating great user experiences for your web apps.

Learn more and download the web app tools.

Nokia In-App Payment

We have also introduced the new Nokia In-App Payment tool, designed to make it easier for you to sell content from within your apps. It provides a simple and secure purchase experience for consumers and transparent payments for developers. Nokia In-App Payment will also be available for existing Asha and Series 40 phones*(from 6^th edition platform and above, except C1-01 and C1-02. Nokia will release a public beta of Nokia In-App Payment in the coming weeks, and you can sign up for the beta here.

Nokia Store

Publishing apps for the new Asha platform is easy as well via Nokia Store. And since its establishment, Nokia Store has now surpassed more than 10 billion cumulative downloads.

TouchMountain is a mobile tourist guide to finding mountain peaks. The app, which started as a 12-week university project, has been published by MIT-Innovation AG, a technology development company in Wollerau, Switzerland.

The TouchMountain app combines and integrates several mobile technologies to let Nokia Windows Phone users find and learn about nearby mountain peaks. TouchMountain uses the phone’s camera and Augmented Reality to let users discover local mountains. The app then uses data from the phone’s GPS sensor, accelerometer or gyro-sensor, digital compass, plus the Internet connection, to visualize recognized peaks on the phone’s display. Users can also find peaks on a map or text list. To learn more about any peak, users tap a mountain peak on the screen; TouchMountain then offers information on more than 750,000 peaks worldwide, including elevation, distance from the user, live webcams, Wikipedia articles on the surroundings, and local weather. TouchMountain also features a compass, navigation, sharing, and pictures of the landscape that include images of annotated mountains.

You can meet André and see the app in action in this TouchMountain video.

To develop the TouchMountain client, Meyer and his colleagues used a variety of programming languages, third-party libraries, and developer tools, including the Telerik RadControls, a suite of UI controls for creating engaging and interactive UIs for Windows Phone apps. (Access to the Telerik suite is among the benefits of the Nokia Premium Developer Program, of which MIT Innovation AG is a member.) Meyer describes the RadControls as ‘simply stunning’ and adds that the experience was so good, his team also bought a license for Windows 8 and WPF applications. Along the way, valuable help was provided by both Nokia and Microsoft. ‘Nokia and its employees do an amazing job with their developer platform’, Meyer says, ‘helping developers with questions, test devices, and other support.’

Next, Meyer and his colleagues are going to concentrate on promoting their application. They plan to use the geotargeted Promotions feature of Nokia Ad Exchange (NAX) to promote TouchMountain in other apps to users in countries where such an application is relevant. NAX is an easy-to-use, cross-platform ad exchange that links developers with more than 120 ad networks worldwide and enables payments in more than 200 countries.

Early feedback from TouchMountain users has been overwhelmingly positive, Meyer says, adding, ‘We get absolutely incredible feedback from our users everywhere around the world.’ Some users have even offered to add new features to the app, including translations into additional languages and new peaks for the database. Perhaps that’s not surprising; TouchMountain’s developers were also its first users. ‘As avid outdoor athletes,’ Meyer says, ‘we always wanted to know the name of the wonderful mountains we found.’ Now they, and other mountain fans worldwide, can.

Check out the TouchMountain app on Windows Phone Store.

Follow TouchMountain on Twitter and Facebook.

Learn more about developing apps for Windows Phone and the Nokia Lumia smartphones.

• Berhan and Hugh Gamble, both of Canada, and Tans of India will each receive a Nokia Asha phone.
• Teemu Sipilä of Finland won a Nokia Bluetooth Headset BH-610.
•  Nice Nokia T-shirts were awarded to: Benita Clarissa of Indonesia; Albin Anto Mathew of India; Robert Molloy of the U.K.; and SeqTre of India, who commented, ‘The webinars are good, and they provide great learning opportunities’.

Congratulations to our March winners, who join the ranks of those who won in January and February.

Through April, we will be giving away three Nokia Asha 305 phones, various phone accessories, and Asha T-shirts each month. We still have plenty of new and exciting webinars lined up for you, and Learn and Win for 2013 has more prizes than ever.

Learn more about Learn and Win, and register to enter. You could win a lovely Nokia Asha 305 phone.