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- The Windows Phone opportunity keeps on growing
- Today we introduced Nokia Lumia 925, the newest member of the Nokia Lumia smartphone family. The beautifully crafted phone with a metal/polycarbonate body creates a unique look and feel while delivering a terrific antenna performance.
- Introducing the Nokia Asha platform: your new smartphone opportunity
- Today we introduced a global initiative that will help developers unlock the market for affordable smartphones by launching the Nokia Asha software platform and the Nokia Asha 501, the first smartphone built on the new Asha platform.
- TouchMountain finds peaks with augmented reality
- What does it take to develop a compelling, innovative app for Nokia Lumia smartphones? For the developers of the TouchMountain app, it helps to be attracted to the Windows Phone UI. ‘It was fascinating to find out how much you can do with a smartphone,’ says André Meyer, a student and TouchMountain’s main developer, ‘and to learn how much potential we can find in this young platform.’ TouchMountain is a mobile tourist guide to finding mountain peaks.
Developing for Nokia
Nokia uses a strategic mix of mobile platforms to create phones that meet the needs of our global user base. These are the tools you can use for each platform:
Windows Phone SDK: Target the full range of exciting Nokia Lumia smartphones built on Windows Phone from Microsoft, including the latest Lumia devices with Windows Phone 8, the Nokia Lumia 920, Lumia 822, Lumia 820, and Lumia 810. More ›
Nokia Asha: Build apps for the affordable smartphones available globally using the Nokia Asha SDK, Nokia Asha web app tools, and Xpress Web App Builder. More ›
Nokia Premium Developer Program: Kickstart your Windows Phone or Asha full touch app development with high value support and tools beyond what’s provided with standard Nokia Developer registration. More ›
Featured Technologies: Nokia uses a range of additional technologies to help you provide your users with the experience they crave. Featured technologies include Location APIs, NFC, in-app advertising, and others. More ›
Highlights
The new power in affordable smartphones
The Nokia Asha family on the Nokia Asha software platform is here. Building on the success of the Series 40 platform, the
Nokia Asha software platform is a new dawn for affordable smartphone in markets around the world. The New Nokia Asha UI optimises
the screen real estate available to your apps, while simplifying user access to the phone's homescreen to deliver a fun yet
superbly functional experience. With Java and web technologies for apps, you build on your existing knowledge to create apps
quickly with the Nokia Asha SDK or Nokia Asha web app tools. The deep platformisation, which covers both hardware and software
makes it easier to deliver apps to the entire Nokia Asha family. And a successful apps business is easier to build with in-app
advertising from Nokia Ad Exchanges in all Nokia Asha platform apps and a new in-app payment mechanism arriving soon for Java
apps.
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Nokia In-App Payment, the better way to pay
A new way to let consumer to purchase digital assets from within your Java apps is coming. Offering a more straightforward
API, Nokia In-App Payments leverages the Nokia Store and Nokia's extensive operator billing network to enable you to add durable
and consumable items for purchase to your Java apps. Currently in closed beta, Nokia In-App Payments will enable you to better
monetise your apps.
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Nokia Ad Exchange simplifies monetisation
Nokia Ad Exchange (NAX) is a mobile advertising exchange that helps you reach more users and more efficiently monetise your apps. NAX gives you access to over 120 top ad networks worldwide via a single SDK and a single partner. You can monetise your apps through in-app advertising, analyse your ad performance, and enhance app discovery through ad campaigns. The exchange's SDK lets you incorporate in-app advertising and be ready for payments in few minutes. You will also get a single dashboard to track your apps' performance. And you can turn to Nokia Ad Exchange for both free house campaigns aimed at cross-promoting your applications, and paid campaigns in which you bid for ad space on others' apps.
More powerful apps with the Windows Phone 8 SDK and Nokia APIs
The Windows Phone 8 SDK adds a raft of new and updated APIs, giving you more possibilities to create your most advanced
apps yet. Add entirely new features to you apps using new APIs for maps, camera, NFC, and background location among others.
You can use the new Nokia Music API to offer your users tracks from Nokia’s music service; even earn money from the affiliate
program.
Get started ›
In addition to the benefits of NAX and Nokia Premium Developer Program, in the Nokia Lumia Developer's Library you can find
documentation and code examples for the Windows Phone APIs that enable you to make the most of the unique, leading-edge features
of Nokia Lumia smartphones with Windows Phone 8.
Read the Nokia Lumia Developer’s Library ›
Spotlights for development View all
TouchMountain, a virtual reality app powered by Windows Phone 8
NearSpeak, an NFC app powered by Windows Phone 8
Health Pack Games: Benefitting from the switch to Nokia Ad Exchange
Rudy Huyn: A winner of the Lumia Geek 8-week Challenge
Snow Report
Foodspotting
Dollar Rent a Car
KAYAK
Getting started with Xpress Web App Builder 1.0
TouchMountain, a virtual reality app powered by Windows Phone 8
André Meyer, a student, talks about and demonstrates TouchMountain. This innovative application makes awesome use of virtual reality to help users identify the mountain peaks around them, and then get additional information on the peaks such as facts, weather, and even view nearby webcams. Created as part of a 12 week university project, André explains that the app benefited from input from Nokia and Microsoft as well as Nokia’s community of developers and users. Talking about virtual reality André says “the possibilities are endless, that the great thing about it.” TouchMountain was the Technology Showcase winner in the Lumia Geek 8-Week Challenge.
NearSpeak, an NFC app powered by Windows Phone 8
Andreas Jakl, founder of Mopius and one of the developers of NearSpeak, demonstrates how this cool NFC app works. The app pushes the boundaries of mobile technology innovation by taking advantage of NFC in combination with voice recognition, Bing Translation, and voice synthesis. Together, these technologies create a unique and compelling use case. The app has great potential for tourism, museums, events, geocaching, and many others. NearSpeak was the first runner up in the Lumia Geek 8-Week Challenge.
Health Pack Games: Benefitting from the switch to Nokia Ad Exchange
Health Pack Games creates physics based games and has discovered the power of NAX. Michael Kloubkov, the owner of Health Pack Games, says that since they switched to NAX, advertising revenue has jumped from a few cents a day up to 800 dollars a day. 'It's really incredible,' says Michael, who also notes that it took them less than a day to switch to NAX. A key to their success has been the way Health Pack Games implement ads in their apps. 'It's all about placement and when you show the ads that really grabs users' attention,' says Michael. He is also very impressed with the in-house campaigns feature — which enables you to cross-promote your apps and websites.
Rudy Huyn: A winner of the Lumia Geek 8-week Challenge
Get to know Rudy Huyn the creator of TVShow — a winning app in the Lumia Geek 8-Week Challenge — Windows Phone addict, and proud developer. By day Rudy works for Orange, while by night he creates his own collection of Windows Phone apps — apps that have over 1.1 millions downloads so far. "It's very cool to work with Nokia," says Rudy. "Because there is always a person to answer your questions, that brings support and programs to bring your app and your business to the next level." Read more details about TVShow and the other winners of the Lumia Geek 8-Week Challenge.
Snow Report
Developed for Windows Phone, this application has everything users need for their next trip to the mountains. Users can track their day, post their activities to social networks, or get snow conditions, weather forecasts, and full trail maps for hundreds of resorts.
Foodspotting
Developed for Windows Phone, this application makes finding good food easier. Instead of reviewing restaurants, users can recommend specific dishes and see what others have recommended wherever they go. They can see the nearest, latest and best dishes around them, search for a particular food, or look up a restaurant to discover its most popular dishes.
Dollar Rent a Car
Developed for Windows Phone, the Dollar Rent A Car app enables users to search for and book thousands of cars in more than 640 worldwide locations.
KAYAK
Developed for Windows Phone, this application enables users to search hundreds of travel sites at once to find a flight, hotel or rental car. Users can set alerts and even keep track of a flight's progress in real time using Bing maps.
Getting started with Xpress Web App Builder 1.0
Discover how easy it is to create and customise a Series 40 web app from your website content and social media feeds with Xpress Web App Builder 1.0. This video guides you through choosing a template to layout your app, adding content from your website or social media account - such as Twitter and YouTube - then enhancing your app to enable users to send an SMS message. Then, after finalising the app's content, obtaining a short URL to preview it on a Series 40 phone before submitting it to your Nokia Publish account.
