kevinSharp | 03 November, 2011 19:21
Nokia Projects now offers over a thousand ways to get inspired, get code, or just get the latest cool apps straight from the developers who create them. There are well over 1000 projects of just about every flavor you can imagine. Some come from Nokia Developer Community members, some from internal Nokia developers. Some offer great behind the scenes insight into consumer apps sold through Nokia Ovi Store, some are extended examples of coding patterns, and still others offer utilities for developers.
Here are a few examples of projects you may want to check out, along with some insight from the lead developers:
From Nokia Developer Community members kypeli, vivainio and msjoberg comes Podcatcher for N9, a podcast manager for the Nokia N9 and other MeeGo Harmattan compatible devices. Free and paid
versions of this app are already in Nokia Ovi Store, or you can
download full source code from the project. The developers are currently
working on a Symbian version of the app.
According to project owner Johan Paul ( kypeli ): Thanks to Nokia Developers Projects I could make my project private and have the project tools available that I needed, which is not possible free of charge on Gitorious or GitHub. I wanted to keep the project initially closed before it was ready for the 1.0 release, but at the same time I needed a way to share packages and code with some people. Nokia Developer Projects also offers a good bug tracking system and a way of sharing binary files which all ties nicely to the project page.
From Nokia Developer Community member yogeshwarp comes gNewsReader written in QML with Qt Components and invoking the Google reader API. The app is in Nokia Ovi Store and the code shows how to implement left/right swipe navigation and how to handle an OAuth2 authorization handshake.
Lead developer yogeshwarp tells us he was inspired by two developers in particular @teknolog and @tlaukkanen (twitter id's) who used the nokia developer infrastructure quite effectively. It really has all the thing any Qt/Symbian/Meego project would need to get started
DevCertList from Nokia Developer Community member Paul.Todd
shows you don't have to code a great consumer app to create a useful
project. This app takes a devcert and lists the capabilities, IMEI's and
optionally any UID's associated with the certificate.
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