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Nokia developer success: Pico Brothers on the road to 100 million downloads
We first wrote about Pico Brothers in March 2011 , around the time they hit the 20 million download mark for their Symbian^3 and S60 apps in Nokia Store . Since that time, the Finnish Pico Brothers team, Niklas Karlström and Kristian Engsjö – along with house dog Viggo – have continued to tick off milestone after milestone, hitting 30, 50, and then 80 million downloads in the Nokia Store from customers in more than 200 markets worldwide. Niklas and Kristian...
OviPublisherSuccesses, 9 February 2012 |
Nokia is coming to your city – Ready. Set {Code}
Nokia is on tour with Mobile Monday Americas, and we want to meet you. We are bringing our developer program, apps, smartphones and experts to your U.S. city. Get exclusive, hands-on time with Nokia’s latest Windows Phones – the Nokia Lumia range. You will hear about plans for the U.S. market, and learn about Nokia’s continuing commitment to mobile apps and developers, including seeding thousands of new phones to developers, along with access to the best tools, support...
Focus your creativity at Photo Hack Day 2 in New York
If you have a great idea for an app that plays with images in fun and useful ways, there's a hackathon coming up that is built for you. Our good friends at Aviary are hosting the Photo Hack Day 2 in New York City 25-26 February, and we’re excited to be the headline sponsor. Aviary is the company behind the incredibly powerful but simple photo editor which can be embedded in any web or mobile app for a beautiful, seamless editing experience wherever you are. If you can join us...
Make free advertising banners for your apps
How would you like a fast, easy, and free way to create online advertising banners for your app that you can use on the Windows Phone Marketplace and Nokia Store? Nokia’s updated Online Marketing Tool can do just that. To create your own professional-looking online advertising banners, all you do is provide your app’s URL in either the Nokia Store or Windows Phone Marketplace, and then the online tool will take you through the remaining steps, including auto-filling in...
Nokia Symbian Belle rolling out for Symbian^3 devices
Today Nokia Symbian Belle started to rolling out for Symbian^3 devices! Check your device update via Nokia Suite. Alessandro
Award-winning Digital Chocolate tastes sweet success in Nokia Store
Digital Chocolate has rapidly emerged as a leader in new digital media and social games, best known for their engaging mobile games like Millionaire City , Zombie Lane , Army Attack , Rollercoaster Rush and Tower Bloxx . In 2010, Digital Chocolate was one of the fastest-growing publishers of Facebook social games with virtual goods. Focused on original brands and technology for a wide variety of platforms, the company has created more than 100...
Show your Belle UI style and win with Qt Quick components
Your creative use of Qt Quick components could win a nice new smartphone, get your app promoted, and have your skills noticed by the community. We are looking for the best examples of Qt Quick components for Symbian Belle with our new Qt Quick components competition . Qt Quick components fast-forward your UI creation by providing ready-made elements like buttons, sliders, lists and toolbars. The components have native UI style for Symbian Belle (or other targets like MeeGo 1.2...
Champion of the Month: Chintan Dave Crosses Platforms
Nokia Developer Champion Chintan Dave is taking advantage of Nokia's cross-platform opportunities. The Gujarat, India-based software engineer with Quickstart Global has created applications for all of Nokia’s platforms: Series 40, Symbian, MeeGo, Mobile Web, and now Windows Phone. Under his screen name, chintandave_er , Chintan is also a frequent contributor to the Nokia Developer community, which he has been a member of since 2008. One of his recent articles...
Harmattan target for Qt SDK 1.2
Today, on 1.2, we have released an updated MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan target for Qt SDK 1.2. The target supports the forthcoming PR1.2 update of Harmattan. Any more "1.2"s in an announcement would probably cause a spontaneous rift in the space/time continuum, so it is better to stop milking this joke for any more laughs. Indeed, Qt SDK 1.2 is released today, and it includes a Harmattan target. The changes in this version are far smaller than in the previous...
New Qt SDK 1.2 now available – delivers easier integration of in-app purchasing
Updated Qt SDK, version 1.2, now available for download here . Continuing the Qt promise of cross-platform development, the latest Qt SDK contains all the tools required for you to immediately get started creating Qt apps for Symbian and Nokia N9 and to benefit from the increasing numbers of Qt app downloads on the Nokia store. Using the powerful Qt 4.7.4 APIs and the Qt Quick framework, you can develop an app and deploy it on Symbian devices (including Anna and Belle)...
Weather Forecast in Windows Phone 7
I wrote a new article to Nokia Developer Wiki . In this article, I will show how to create Windows Phone application which loads Weather Forecast from World Weather Online 's XML service. You can add your own favourite cities to application and it will display weather forecasts in Panorama Views in Windows Phone application. You can read the whole article here: Weather Forecast in Windows Phone 7
Celebrity TweetTalk Application for Windows Phone 7 on Marketplace
Hello Folks, My second WP app "Celebrity TweetTalk" for Windows Phone is now avaialable for download in Windows Phone Marketplace. http://windowsphone.com/s?appid=2c945d5d-85bb-465c-8aef-4da0b2bc411e It is also available for Meego devices like Nokia N9 and N950 on Nokia Store on below link. I ported this application to Windows Phone. http://store.ovi.com/content/222414 SceenShots ...
Nokia TweetTalk Application for Windows Phone 7
Hello folks, I created "Nokia TweetTalk" application for Windows Phone developed specially for Nokia developers and Nokia Fans. App contains Twitter account of Nokia Services and Nokia Developer Champions and Nokia Developer Experts. About Nokia TweetTalk application Nokia TweetTalk application contains two sections. First Section “Nokians” contains list of various Twitter accounts of Nokia services like Nokia, Nokia developers, Ovi Store,...
Harmattan 1.2 beta now available as OCF for Nokia N950
As you may have noted in our earlier blog post ( Heads up for Harmattan 1.2 beta developer release (16-Jan-2012) ) we are now releasing the MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan 1.2 beta version number 3.2012.02-6_PR_RM680 for Nokia N950 Developer Device. The release is available as OCF (One Click Flasher). Harmattan 1.2 comes with a number of user experience improvements making it appealing for consumers. Five new supported languages, face recognition, enhanced copy-paste, software update...
Updates to the Developer Library
We have updated the Developer Library once more. Here is a list of the updates: List of path name exceptions now contains more directories where data storage is allowed. This section will continue to be updated in the future. Accessing protected X server interfaces is a new section about an upcoming Harmattan platform security feature. Use these instructions if you are developing a special application that needs to access protected X server interfaces....
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