Carbide.ui Symbian Theme Edition 4.0 Adds Productivity-Enhancing UX

pkrass | 25 February, 2011 00:41

The latest version of the theme tool for Symbian devices is now available. Carbide.ui Symbian Theme Edition 4.0 delivers a new UX that has been designed to boost the productivity of theme designers. The UX was created by going back to first principles and rethinking how designers can most efficiently create themes. This has resulted in changes that include:

Richer Component View: With faster refreshing, improved iconography, status indication, and filtering, reviewing components is now faster and better aligned to theme-development needs.

Unified Properties View: All properties of a component -- and the tools to manipulate them -- are now in one place. New tools, such as a slicer to create nine-part components, are also available.

Tabbed Preview: Preview screens are now grouped into convenient tabs, making it easier to find and display specific previews. This, in turn, enables the impact of component changes on the UI to be evaluated speedily.

Colour and Gradient Editor: An improved colour-selection tool makes editing common colours and gradients straightforward. Get an instant preview of any change, then use the colour picker to sample colours from any source.

Export to PDF: Export all preview screens to a PDF document -- at full resolution. Designers can now easily evaluate and share theme ideas without having to first install them on a device.

Automatic Updates: Whenever updates to Carbide.ui become available, an automatic alert is shown in the tool. Then, a single click is all that's needed to get the latest features and functions.

 

Explore and download Carbide.ui Symbian Theme Edition 4.0





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New Apps Showcase Qt Quick

pkrass | 23 February, 2011 17:53

To demonstrate the potential of Qt Quick, Forum Nokia has published five great showcase applications. All five are developed and hosted at Forum Nokia Projects. Qt Quick is short for the Qt UI Creation Kit, which was introduced in the latest version of Qt. It is supported in the Qt SDK 1.1, now available as a technology preview.

Download the latest five apps developed with Qt Quick:

- Qt Quick Playground: Qt Quick demo launcher.
- QuickHit: Demonstrates Qt Quick as a game platform; a shoot-em-up space game.
- DJ Turntable: Scratchable record player and drum machine.
- Bubble Level: Uses accelerometer to calculate the device’s incline.
- Multiple Windows: A cross-platform image viewer.


Explore Qt Quick and download the Qt SDK 1.1 technology preview.


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MWC Videos Now on YouTube

pkrass | 23 February, 2011 16:44

Videos of Nokia presentations from the 2011 Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona are now available for viewing on YouTube. These videos include:

- Rich Green, Nokia’s CTO, presenting the company’s three-year application ecosystem vision. Watch the video.

- Nokia Developer Day panel discussion. Watch the video.

- Matt Bencke, Microsoft’s General Manager of Windows Phones and Marketplace, discusses the Nokia strategy’s opportunities for developers. Watch the video.

- Introducing Qt Quick for Stunning UI Creation. Watch the video.

- Press briefing by Stephen Elop, CEO of Nokia. Watch the video.

 

View even more MWC videos on Forum Nokia’s YouTube channel.


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New White Paper: Java Developer’s Guide for Series 40

pkrass | 21 February, 2011 19:11

Are you a developer looking to exploit your Java skills in the mobile marketplace? A new Forum Nokia white paper provides a great starting point. Called Java Developer’s Guide, the document gives an overview of the platforms, development tools, and distribution mechanisms for apps created using Java technology for Nokia devices. The document, now available for free from Forum Nokia, also provides an overview of the Series 40 platform, Java APIs supported by Nokia, and the latest Touch and Type UI.


Download the free Java Developer’s Guide white paper.

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Join Push Snowboarding at the U.S. Open

pkrass | 21 February, 2011 18:41

Develop apps and visualisations using Push Snowboarding, and you could win a pair of VIP tickets and accomodations to the 2011 U.S. Open Snowboarding Championship. Push Snowboarding is an open snowboarding platform that combines the technical expertise of Nokia and Burton Snowboards. Both the dataset and complete application source code are now available for download. For a chance to win the VIP tickets, submit your ideas by 25 February. The contest is open to developers worldwide.



Learn more, and submit your Push Snowboarding ideas for a chance at VIP tickets.


Download the Push Snowboarding datasets


Download the Push Snowboarding source code.

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Enter Nokia IdeasProject Competition – You Could Win 2 Free Trips to SXSW

pkrass | 16 February, 2011 19:50

Got a great idea for a mobile app? Then enter the new competition sponsored by Nokia’s IdeasProject.com. It’s for developers with ideas for mobile apps that could make the world a better place. One winner will receive airfare and tickets for two to this year’s South By Southwest Conference and Festival in Austin, Texas, three nights in a hotel, tickets to a VIP party and concert, and more.

To enter, submit as many as 10 ideas, either as text (50 to 250 words each) or a YouTube video (no longer than three minutes each). All entries are due by 25 February, and you must be a resident of the United States to enter.

 

 

Learn more and enter the Nokia IdeasProject competition.


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Opportunities for Developing for Nokia Smartphones

jasonblack | 14 February, 2011 18:50

Guest post by Sebastian Nystrom, Vice President, Application and Service Frameworks at Nokia

We’ve just finished the Nokia presentations at our Developer Day, part of the App Planet activities at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. We had a full house of developers interested in hearing more about our announcement from last week and, together with Rich Green, Nokia CTO; Purnima Kochikar, head of Forum Nokia; and Bryan Biniak, head of Ovi Publish, I spoke about the news and its implications for our developers.
 
One of the questions asked in the room was, “If I want to start developing for Nokia devices today, should I develop for Windows Phone or for Symbian/MeeGo with Qt?”
 
It’s a good question, and we appreciate the news from last week may have caused some confusion. So here’s our answer: We recommend that you start with Qt today, for the maximum immediate business opportunity on Nokia smartphones. Our CEO Stephen Elop has said that we expect volume sales of Nokia Windows Phone products in 2012. Before then, developers have an immediate opportunity to address our installed base of around 75 million Symbian devices which are Qt capable, plus the approximately 150 million more Symbian devices that we plan to sell, as well as the upcoming device from our MeeGo program. This opportunity will continue even after Nokia Windows Phone shipments begin.
 
As the Nokia device portfolio shifts to Windows Phone we expect the developer opportunity for Nokia Windows Phones to grow, and we will work with Microsoft to help developers with extending their applications from Symbian and MeeGo to that platform as well. In the meantime, we see the business opportunity for developers targeting Nokia smartphones is for Symbian (and MeeGo) using Qt. Please stay tuned for more news as our planning with Microsoft continues.

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Letter to Developers about Today’s News

jasonblack | 11 February, 2011 10:05

Nokia and Microsoft today announced plans to form a broad strategic partnership that would combine our complementary strengths and expertise to create a new global mobile ecosystem, one we believe would have all the elements needed to fuel innovation – including search, location, advertising and exciting new devices.

As part of this, Nokia plans to adopt Windows Phone as our primary smartphone strategy, helping drive the future of the platform.  This has not been a decision taken lightly by Nokia and we wanted to share some of the key points with our developer community.

Nokia and Microsoft together

The Nokia-Microsoft ecosystem would aim to deliver differentiated and innovative products and have unrivalled scale, product breadth, geographical reach, and brand identity. With Windows Phone as our primary smartphone platform, we would help drive the future of the platform by leveraging our expertise in hardware optimization, software customization, language support and scale.

Microsoft would make available the existing free Windows Phone Developer Tools; Visual Studio 2010, Expression, Silverlight and the XNA Framework to developers. Together, we will provide guidance for developers wishing to port their applications to Windows Phone.

Nokia and Microsoft would also combine services assets to drive innovation. Nokia’s Ovi Maps, for example, would be at the heart of key Microsoft assets like Bing and AdCenter, and Nokia’s application and content store would be integrated with Microsoft Marketplace for Nokia Windows Phones, to deliver a great single commerce experience for developers and consumers alike.

The Qt ecosystem

Qt will continue to be the development framework for Symbian and Nokia will use Symbian for further devices; continuing to develop strategic applications in Qt for Symbian platform and encouraging application developers to do the same. With 200 million users worldwide and Nokia planning to sell around 150 million more Symbian devices, Symbian still offers unparalleled geographical scale for developers.

Extending the scope of Qt further will be our first MeeGo-related open source device, which we plan to ship later this year. Though our plans for MeeGo have been adapted in light of our planned partnership with Microsoft, that device will be compatible with applications developed within the Qt framework and so give Qt developers a further device to target.

Nokia Mobile Phones

Nokia Mobile Phones will drive Nokia’s ”web for the next billion” strategy, leveraging Nokia’s innovation and strength in growth markets to connect the next billion people and bring them affordable access to the Internet and applications. This represents a further opportunity for developers. Nokia will leverage our proxy browser technology on mobile phones, as well as continuing to enhance Java support and SDKs, with developers and publishers able to deliver their applications to consumers through the Nokia store.

Supporting our developers

As part of the change in Nokia’s organization announced today, the Services and Developer Experiences (SDX) unit will be responsible for Nokia’s global service portfolio, developer offering, developer community relations, and integration of partner service offering. Forum Nokia will be part of that unit and will continue to support developers for Symbian smartphones and Series 40 mobile phones.

We will strengthen our ability to support developers both globally and in local markets, ensuring that we can work with you wherever you are to bring your latest applications to our store and help you leverage the global revenue opportunity with Symbian and Series 40.

For Nokia Windows Phones, Microsoft would provide tools for application developers to easily and rapidly leverage Nokia’s market reach.  The integration of Microsoft Marketplace and Nokia’s content and application store would provide scalable infrastructure and compelling consumer engagement for applications for Nokia Windows Phones.

The combined stores would offer unparalleled distribution. The Ovi Store already delivers content in 190 countries, with local specific content in 90 of those. We are now seeing 4 million downloads a day, with 300,000 users signing up daily and 400,000 developers now working on applications for Nokia on Symbian. In addition to offering operator billing with 103 operators in 32 countries, we plan to support the widest range of business models for our publishers and developers.

We plan to make it easy and profitable for all developers to thrive in the ecosystem, taking advantage of the enablers (API’s) offered by ourselves, Microsoft and other partners - including location, search, monetization and advertising.

What’s next?

As we said, this announcement is about our plans to work with Microsoft and the planning will continue. Our aim is to keep you informed as plans develop, through our Forum Nokia and Ovi Publish websites, newsletters and in person. In the meantime, we want to help you maximize the existing business opportunity, developing for the approximately 50 million Qt capable Symbian smartphones already in use and approximately 150 million more that we target to sell, as well as hundreds of millions of Nokia mobile phones.

We think this is going to be an exciting journey and look forward to having you with us!

Purnima Kochikar

Head of Forum Nokia & Developer Community

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Changes coming to Symbian Signed services

jasonblack | 10 February, 2011 16:31

The Symbian Signed signing services are being migrated and taken up by Nokia Corporation. Symbian Foundation will transition from a non-profit organization to a licensing entity, which means there will be changes in the terms and conditions of the Symbian Signed service.

In the context of this transition and providing the signing services by Nokia, new service terms and privacy policy shall apply to your use of the Symbian Signed services. To continue using these services, you need to accept the new terms by 28 February 2011.

You can do this by logging into your account at the Symbian Signed website, and Accepting the new service terms and privacy policy.

NOTE: If you do not accept the new terms by 28 February 2011, you will not be able to use the Symbian Signed service.

Additionally Nokia is continuing the development work of Symbian Signed started by Symbian Foundation. It is anticipated that these changes will be completed during the second quarter of 2011. More information will be shared once it becomes available.

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UX Case Studies: How 10 Developers Improved their App Designs

pkrass | 09 February, 2011 21:15

Case studies have just been posted on 10 mobile developers who received user experience (UX) consultations from Forum Nokia. The 10 include developers of apps currently available on Ovi Store – such as Car Black Box, Wikitude World Browser, Loan Calc, and Vringo – as well as some still in development and testing. All the developers received a UX consultation based on mobile heuristics and a written report with detailed comments and suggestions. The new case studies show how the developers translated that information into design changes that improved the usability of their apps.

Browse and read the 10 new UX case studies.

Learn more about Forum Nokia’s User Experience programs.

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Nokia E7 Starts Shipping

pkrass | 07 February, 2011 20:32

The highly anticipated Nokia E7 will begin arriving in stores in select markets this week, with broader availability building up quickly in several markets. The Nokia E7 features a 4-inch ClearBlack display, full QWERTY keyboard, and fast access to a wide variety of apps directly on the homescreen, including business applications from Microsoft and IBM. Other features include an 8-megapixel camera with dual LED flash, 16 gigabytes of flash memory, and file-sharing via USB-On-The-Go.

Learn more about the Nokia E7 shipments (includes link to design video).

Check out the Nokia E7-00 technical specifications.

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Push Snowboarding Dataset Release

jasonblack | 07 February, 2011 15:43

The Nokia x Burton: Push Snowboarding project is about showcasing the power of Nokia devices by collecting data from snowboarders that's never before been captured together. And in the spirit of Nokia Push, everything's being done openly, with the help of the Nokia community to shape the future of the project. They've updated us on the technology they're using, how their tests have gone (Round Up 1 and Round Up 2) and are now inviting the developer community to get involved, too.

The team behind the project has just returned from their alpha tests, held during the Burton European Open in Laax, Switzerland, where they fitted the Push Snowboarding kit to Burton pro-riders and captured data from their rides. Now they've made this data open to everyone.

When they say it's open, they mean really open. You can download everything! the data they captured from the pros, details of the sensors that have been used, the Arduino code that handles the Bluetooth communication to the Nokia N8 and even the source code for the Qt application they've developed.



They've invited developers to download all of the code, investigate and play with it and then come up with new ways of utilising and visualising it. There are no limits – you could develop a social network for snowboarders, an application that helps them improve their techniques by using the pressure sensors to measure the time they've spent on their heels and toes. Or even a crazy way of displaying the data-streams over video.

And best of all, the developer behind the project, Clovis, has developed everything so you can plug in and only use the streams of data that are needed for an application, read on for the technical overview:

"Our current application for the Nokia N8 (source code released under GPL) is being fully developed with Qt and with expandability in mind. The app's back-end is centred around the idea of Devices. Devices generally represent a sensor and they emit (in the Qt sense of the word) their readings. Devices can be Bluetooth devices (generally Arduinos connected through a Bluetooth Serial Port), sensors internal to the phone (connected through QMobility) or even abstract Devices that use other inputs as their source. Together with that there is a module that gathers all the output from this Devices and dumps them to XML files (which we call RawLog). The communication between all these parts is managed by resembling a distributed subscriber-publisher pattern. On the app's frontend, we have a simple interface (fully built around a QGraphicsScene and QStateMachine) that enables the user to connect to the available sensors, start and end a run and check some quick (graphic) reports on the previously recorded runs.

“The inner architecture was designed to ease the work of anyone who has a cool idea on how to use the data being produced in real time. For example, if you want to add the feature of streaming loud applause to the phone's sound system when the snowboarder lands a high jump, he or she just needs to subscribe to the Air-Time detector Device, use the length of the air to scale the applause, stream it to the sound API and you're done!

“Right now the Devices are classes compiled with the app code, but we plan to make them as plugins so that one can add/remove plugins at will.

“Soon we'll have a more developer-oriented wiki/code-hosting forum on the Push Snowboarding site and we'll be happy to provide support for developers!"

You can reach the Push Snowboarding team on Twitter @NokiaPush, by dropping a feedback suggestion on the Push Snowboarding website or by posting comments and ideas here which Clovis plans to help answer.

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Champion of the Month: A Developer With Gravity

pkrass | 03 February, 2011 20:18

The Forum Nokia Champion for February is Jan Ole Suhr. Ole, as he is known to friends, runs mobileways.de, a small Berlin-based company that is dedicated to the mobile Internet. In 2009 Ole released Gravity, a social-networking client for Nokia S60 devices. His company also offers Remote Professional, a tool that lets users remotely view and control a Symbian smartphone from a PC; and WirelessIRC, a full-featured IRC client for S60 3.x devices. Over the years, his creations have won numerous awards and honours.

Meet Forum Nokia Champion of the month Jan Ole Suhr.


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