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Nokia is bustin' it out in China

slimpixi, 20 May 2012 | Comment

GMIC 2012

Beijing, China -- The web is dead, so they claim, but not so yet in China--I say. However, the mobile is just beginning here and GMIC2012 was at the forfront of it all with superstar CEO's attending from Fruit Ninja, Sina, Tencent, and more. The most interesting pannel for me was the Branding & Merchandising pannel where Fruit Ninja CMO  Phil Larsen , Rovio SVP  Henri Holm , Talking Cat CBO  Narry Singh , and Cut the Rope woman  Diana Moldavsky,  all spoke...

slimpixi, 20 May 2012 | 1 Comments

Creating a streaming MP3 player in WP7

I wrote a new article to Nokia Developer Wiki . In this article, I will show how you can create a streaming MP3 music player in Windows Phone 7. All the music files are stored in the server and are streamed to Windows Phone. Application first loads all the albums data from the server with JSON data. In server side, there are PHP script which loads ID3 tags from all the MP3 files and generates JSON string, which is returned to Windows Phone. Latest, Favorite and Album songs...

pasi.manninen, 18 May 2012 | Comment

Tracking Baby’s Steps: ParentAssist, a Windows Phone developer success story

While learning the ropes of parenthood, Anthony Ramirez and his wife figured there had to be an easier way to keep track of their baby’s important activities. In an attempt to monitor and organize all of their little one’s interactions, they developed their first Windows Phone app under Coquisoft LLC. Though there are various parenting apps on the market, ParentAssist is differentiated by its fully customizable settings. Parents can track feedings, diaper changes,...

OviPublisherSuccesses, 10 May 2012 | 2 Comments

Ready.Set () {Code} Challenge hits US and Canada

Headphones on. Tilt the seat back. Get ready, because Nokia Developer is about to turn your town into Dev City with its  Ready.Set () {Code} Challenge .  We are hitting the road to  13-cities  looking for developers who want to build an experience not just another app. To kick off the  Ready.Set () {Code} Challenge, Nokia Developer will hold hackathons across the US and Canada beginning in May. You can  sign up  individually or form your own team...

davidjstone, 9 May 2012 | 2 Comments

Significant new app partnerships underline continued momentum for Nokia Lumia

Today at CTIA Wireless 2012 in New Orleans we announced multiple significant new app partnerships. Developers and brands including Rovio, ESPN, PGA Tour, Paypal and Groupon are the latest partners in the growing Nokia Lumia ecosystem, and their arrival is another step forward in our ongoing work to bring differentiated and original app experiences to Nokia Lumia. As part of these new partnerships, iconic games like Angry Birds Space will join core news and entertainment apps...

davidjstone, 8 May 2012 | 1 Comments

Champion of the Month: Vishal Dharankar instills Windows Phone passion in his students

Nokia Developer Champion Vishal Dharankar is an independent consultant at Xenon Softwares and developer of the free FuelPad   and MyFinance apps in Nokia Store. Based in Nashik, Maharashtra, India, he teaches post-graduate computer science when he’s not busy coding apps of his own. Last month he organized a full-day workshop to introduce students to Windows Phone development using Visual Studio and Expression Blend. While most students entering the workshop had no...

kevinSharp, 4 May 2012 | 2 Comments

Pico Brothers join the 100 million club

Finland-based duo Niklas Karlström and Kristian Engsjö, aka Pico Brothers, have broken through the 100 million download barrier in Nokia Store. Pico Brothers are the second developers to achieve 100,000,000 downloads, reaching the milestone just two weeks after UTV Indiagames . The company's strategy for success has involved delivering simple, clever apps that provide short bursts of entertainment. Apps like ‘Milk the Cow’, 'Talking...

davidjstone, 4 May 2012 | Comment

Picasa Image Gallery with JSON in WP7

I wrote a new article to Nokia Developer Wiki . In this article, I will show how you can access to your public and private image albums in Google Picasa (or albums which your friends has shared to you). Google offers many different ways to get image albums data, in this article I will cover JSON to get data from Google. You can read whole article and download source code here: Picasa Image Gallery with JSON in WP7

pasi.manninen, 3 May 2012 | 1 Comments

FourBros Studio Scores Big Bucks with In-App Advertising

Nokia’s Lumia 710, Lumia 800 and Lumia 900 phones have garnered a tremendous amount of buzz since their launch. Recognizing the opportunity to create addictive, interactive apps on the Windows Phone platform, FourBros Studio, with the help of Nokia, has turned their indie game into a lucrative business. [ Read their blog here .] In 2011, FourBros Studio created Taptitude . The free Windows Phone application is a collection of more than sixty games in which players...

OviPublisherSuccesses, 3 May 2012 | Comment

Dynamic backgrounds without artifacts

This is the second part of the post on the City Pages header images . If you want to read more about background-size:cover , start there. Now you have your large, dynamically scaling image, it's time to make it better. You might have noticed that when you scale an image up, it can appear low quality. When images are 'upscaled', it can have a bad effect on your users' perception of your page. Even if the effect is subtle, it can detract from any benefits gained in using...

simonmadine, 3 May 2012 | 1 Comments

Passion into Profit: Success Stories from DreamGamez and IND190

When working with Nokia, a publishing company does not have to be large in order to be successful. This week, we focus on the success of two people who never gave up on their passion for developing applications, and worked with Nokia to make their vision a reality. Unique Designs for All: IND190 Success Story In 2008, Ramadhan Bach wanted to download a new theme for his Symbian phone. Frustrated by the lack of options available at that time, he decided to create his own...

OviPublisherSuccesses, 26 April 2012 | Comment

When global success is driven locally

By Marco Argenti, SVP, Nokia Developer In an increasingly competitive app landscape, it’s truly exciting to see developers surface and achieve real, global success. And this week, we saw just that happen. UTV Indiagames – India’s premier gaming company - has made history, and become the first developer to break through the 100 million downloads milestone in Nokia Store. More impressive, according to their founder and CEO Vishal Gondal, is that over 50 million new...

davidjstone, 25 April 2012 | 1 Comments

Nokia Developer webinar: User-centric design of Series 40 apps

Putting the user at the heart of your app designs is the key to creating winning apps. Our upcoming webinar walks you through a design example focusing on helping a user determine where they are, to facilitate the use of a location based application for Series 40 Touch and Type phones. After giving an overview of the available methods for determining the user’s location, the webinar will discuss some of the fundamental drivers behind mobile app design, such as user mind set,...

davidjstone, 24 April 2012 | 2 Comments

Nokia Browser 2.0 brings faster, richer web experiences to Series 40

A new browser for Series 40,  Nokia Browser 2.0 , is bringing a faster, better way to experience the web to Series 40. The cloud-based servers powering Nokia Browser 2.0 reduce data consumption by up to 90%, all without compromising the user experience. Sites also load up to three times faster. It’s accomplished by using cloud-based caching and compression. As well as a faster browsing experience, Nokia Browser 2.0 helps users save money on operator data...

davidjstone, 24 April 2012 | Comment