Category: N9
As discussed on 18th November and on 21st December in this blog, the metrics of the default font of Nokia N9, the Nokia Pure Text typeface, have been updated in the Middle East and African variant (PR1.1.1, 22.2011.44-2) and will be changed in all devices in a future software update....
As announced on 18th November in this blog , we have a new version of the default font of Nokia N9, the Nokia Pure Text . The updated font is already publically available in the Middle East and African variant (PR1.1.1, 22.2011.44-2) and it will be changed in all devices in a future software...
As announced yesterday, the Qt Quick Developer Guides have been updated with Harmattan-related additional material.
The guide takes the reader through developing a ToDo-application, and the added chapter describes the changes needed when porting the application to Harmattan. ...
We have noted that a few games and other sound-using applications do not
behave properly when the volume keys of the device are used. When the
keys are used when a game is running, they should control the volume of
the game instead of changing the current volume settings (and the...
The second instance of Qt Developer Days 2011 took place in San Francisco from 29th November to 1st December. As well as in the QtDD event in Munich a month earlier , the N9 App Doctors in white jackets were there, hosting the N9 App Clinic.
Also in San Francisco, the main purpose...
The two Qt Quick Components galleries that showcase the user interface components have been updated.
We accidentally introduced a regression, which made a few of the component-specific pages not work in the updated Harmattan environment (PR1.1, provided via over-the-air...
Harmattan developer documentation received a boost again as the latest version of the Developer Library was published last week. Besides updates and bug fixes, the new version includes:
Harmattan-specific instructions for developing plain Qt and Qt WebKit apps
Enhanced...
Amongst the many features of the PR1.1 software update, one of the most important from developers' perspective is the availability of Near Field Communications. Even though the API remains the same, the NFC stack has been significantly updated.
Its usefulness was quite limited in the...
We have moved the user experience documentation into harmattan-dev .
Please update your bookmarks, though redirection from the old location is not going away anytime soon.
We have also updated the documentation a little. But plenty of work still remains. Comments and...
The over the air updates of Nokia N9s have been very successful in the first regions where the new version has been seeded. We are now extending it to have a global reach - see here for the official notification.
When a user launches an application it is generally a good idea to give them some feedback that the application has been activated. This is especially true for applications that take a long time to get started. It can also be useful for applications to give the user information or...
[Guestwritten by Michael Hasselmann.]
Introduction
QML provides a useful concept to split up code called 'Components'. The easiest way to create a re-usable component is to add a new file to the working directory of the main QML file.
Example.qml:
import...
This is a pre-warning of one change that will take place in an future software update of the Nokia N9: the default font, "Nokia Pure Text", will be updated as well. This might have an impact on some of your application UIs.
The typeface of Nokia Pure Text itself will not...
It has been a wonderful 5 weeks over at the ideasproject.com N9 Challenge, with a great community of active contributors. The result is that we now have over 2,500 ideas stored away on every UX topic from hardware to music players.
Throughout the 5 weeks ideas...
We have now prepared a new Bugzilla instance for any Nokia N9 or N950 related bugs at harmattan-bugs.nokia.com . This will help the N9 team interact with the community and further improve the N9 software quality.
We have cloned all open N9 bugs from the old Nokia Developer Bugzilla...