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- Target your web content and websites at Nokia with Windows Phone, Symbian, Nokia N9, and Series 40 phones.
- Transform web assets into powerful mobile applications.
- Develop using standard web technologies.
Nokia with Windows Phone
Nokia with Windows Phone offers users an outstanding browsing experience, with IE9. Windows Phone uses the same underlying engine as IE for Windows, so you use the same mark-up to deliver great interoperable HTML5 experiences on mobile as you do on the desktop. With superb CSS3, SVG, Canvas, ECMAScript 5, and WOFF support, delivering rich mobile web experiences has never been easier.
Discover more about IE9 Mobile
Qt-based phones
On Symbian phones, a WebKit-based browser and Web Runtime enable the delivery of rich, sophisticated websites and apps. These technologies offer mobile developers rapid development, with a shallow learning curve.
The Nokia N9 smartphone offers one of the most advanced, yet easy-to-use, mobile browsers. Class leading JavaScript processing performance and many HTML5 and CSS3 features enable you to experience the rich web content and apps you have always wanted to provide your mobile visitors.
Series 40
With Series 40 web apps for the Nokia Browser on Series 40, designers and developers can easily provide users of even low cost phones with a rich web experience. This huge, growing user base, which only Nokia can connect you with, holds new opportunities for every web asset, from global brands to local content.
Spotlights for web View all
Getting started with Nokia Web Tools for Series 40
New capabilities in Series 40 web apps
UI improvements in Series 40 web apps
Series 40 web apps: Sina Wireless
An Introduction to Nokia Developer Projects
IdeasProject
Getting Started with Series 40 web apps
Create for Millions with Houman Farood
Calling All Innovators Developer Party
Getting started with Nokia Web Tools for Series 40
Houman Forood, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Nokia provides an update on the Series 40 web app development platform, which was launched in April 2011. In this video, Houman walks you through the basics of Series 40 web apps, the advances since launch, and the steps you take to get started.
New capabilities in Series 40 web apps
Houman Forood, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Nokia continues to discuss the new features in the recently released Nokia Web Tools 1.5 and updated web apps capabilities in Nokia Browser for Series 40. You can now take advantage of geolocation, native messaging, and other features to build rich applications using your web development skills.
UI improvements in Series 40 web apps
Houman Forood, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Nokia provides a guide to the UI improvements that have been introduced in the latest Series 40 web apps environment. You will see many improvements since the initial release. Houman also explains that new UI guidelines are available to assist you in designing web apps for Nokia Series 40 phones.
Series 40 web apps: Sina Wireless
GaoFei Wang, vice president, and Zheng Wei, technical manager, of Sina Wireless talk about the opportunities created by Series 40 web apps and Nokia Web Tools. Sina has delivered Sina News as a Series 40 web app to provide domestic and international news to consumers in China.
An Introduction to Nokia Developer Projects
This video gives you a brief introduction to the usage of Nokia Developer Projects, a web-based project management tool. For more on this subject, see the Nokia Developer Projects homepage.
IdeasProject
The IdeasProject is an online community for everybody from all around the world to brainstorm. It enables the two-way exchange of ideas between users and developers around innovation powered by Nokia.
By sharing your ideas here you expose them to a huge number of other enthusiastic people who can help you evolve them into real innovations and products. We offer challenges and concrete rewards for the best ideas.
Getting Started with Series 40 web apps
This getting started video provides developers with the essential information needed to use Nokia Web Tools to create, edit, preview, package, and deploy a Series 40 web app. This video complements the getting started guide document available from Web Developer Channel.
Create for Millions with Houman Farood
Houman Farood, senior product marketing manager at Nokia Developer, talks about the Create for Millions competition: specifically the opportunity this offers for web developers. Houman explains that Series 40 web apps offer developers access to a significant marketplace, particularly in developing economies, and outlines the prizes on offer and judging categories.
Calling All Innovators Developer Party
In August, Nokia hosted a celebration to announce the winners of the Calling All Innovators $10M contest and turn the spotlight on our most important collaborators, you the developer. Fellow Nokia and Windows Phone devs, as well as members of the Nokia North America team, local VCs, media, and operators attended to celebrate the industry and it's achievements. It was a wonderful evening celebrating your contributions to the mobile app ecosystem and we look forward to sharing with you in the exciting times ahead.
Recent resources
News and events
- Winning apps from Hackathon 2011 bring great ideas to three Nokia platforms
- We featured the top-prize winner of the recent Hackathon competition that was held during Nokia World 2011 in London last month, but we wanted to make sure you had the full details from the contest, and got a preview of the other award-winning apps based on the best ideas submitted to IdeasProject that were developed in just 40 hours for use on Nokia phones.
- Champion of the Month: Simon Botes
- Nokia PreSchool is the sort of big idea backed by skilled execution that keeps the honors coming for Nokia Developer Champion of the Month Simon Botes. The idea, to create a free, home preshooling system that can run on Nokia Series 40 phones, took first place in the Create 4 Millions Challenge.
- Visiarc wins Hackathon contest at Nokia World for Windows Phone game 'Duudle'
- Visiarc, a company well known for their enterprise software is the winner of the 2011 Hackathon competition at Nokia World for their game called "Duudle", which also happens to be their first Windows Phone application.
Highlights
Web experiences for Series 40 are now even better
Nokia Browser for Series 40 has been updated, with several new features that will enable you to offer even richer experiences
to users of Series 40 phones, on even the lowest bandwidth connections.
For web app features you now have the ability to determine location, making any number of location-based apps possible. You
can also offer users the ability to send SMS messages directly from your apps. Then, for improved performance, Series 40 web
apps now cache images embedded in your web app to offer faster loading and refreshing of content. These new capabilities expand
on the already advanced features of Series 40 web apps, such as screen transitions and the ability to create interactive UIs
that minimise server round trips.
To complement the new web apps features Nokia Web Tools has been updated too. New features enable you to simulate location
while testing web apps on a computer and you can find issues with your code faster now that an implementation of Web Inspector
offers debugging feature in the emulator.
Once you have created a web app that differentiates your web content and offers the great user engagement, you can now distribute
it to millions of Series 40 users through Nokia Store.
Find out more about Series 40 web apps ›
Discover the new features in Nokia Web Tools ›
Find out more about distributing through Ovi Store ›
Find out more about Nokia Browser for Series 40 ›
Mobile web browsing
Nokia phones provide optimised web browsing solutions for every price point. Nokia web browsers on high end devices are
built
on industry leading, open source web browser engines to deliver a full internet experience.
The latest addition to the family is Nokia Web Browser for N9 — the world's first WebKit2 browser — offering extensive HTML5
and CSS3 support for richer and more engaging websites and web apps.
Nokia also leads the way in embedding
Adobe Flash content in the browser and has shipped more than 400 million devices with Adobe Flash technology.
If you want to optimise your websites for Nokia phones, things just got easier with the updated Nokia mobile
web templates. These templates are designed to provide optimised web browsing experiences on Nokia phones: smartphones
and
mobile phones. In addition, you can make use of the Mobile Web Components to add HTML5 feature to your websites and web
apps quickly.
More on Nokia browser for N9 ›
Read more about mobile web browsing ›
Read more about User-Agent headers for Nokia phones ›
Use the Nokia mobile web templates ›
Discover the Mobile Web Components ›
Add maps and locations to your websites
Two web-based location APIs are available from developer.nokia.com/projects for all Nokia Developer members. The Ovi Maps
Rendering
API renders a map in the form of a digital still image, from a simple http request. The API can be used on any phone;
from
low-end mobile phones to high-end smartphones and computers. The Ovi Maps API enables you to embed an interactive Ovi
Map
into websites, by the use of a few lines of client side JavaScript code.
Find out more about the location APIs
Build web enabled applications with Qt
Qt offers you a great new way to use web skills to create applications. With WebKit (Qt WebKit) integration, Qt offers
HTML5
and CSS3 support today. This is a quick and powerful way to use web assets and skills to produce apps for smartphones and
mobile computers.
QtWebKit hands-on lab module ›
Cartoon Reader example ›
Beta Lab example ›
ListEm example ›
Web app and widget creators
Are you a website or content owner? Do you want to take advantages of the accessibility that Series 40 web apps and Symbian
WRT widgets provide to web content, but avoid the need to code your own web app? The good news is that Nokia offers you two
tools that enable you to quickly and easily mobilise your content:
Ovi app wizard to create Symbian WRT widgets from up to four RSS feeds.
Nokia Web Clip Creator (beta) to create Series 40 web apps by clipping content from your website
Both tools provide an easy-to-use web interface that steps you through the process of creating your web app or widget; you
will have your content ready for submission to Nokia Store in minutes.
Other resources
Join our community to ask questions or contribute to:
Series 40 web app development on the Nokia Developer Discussion Boards and Nokia Developer Wiki.
Symbian WRT widget development on the Nokia Developer Discussion Boards and Nokia Developer Wiki.
Make your web apps stand out with other great resources from Nokia Developer:
Nokia tutorials on Flash ›
Packaging Flash content in widgets ›
Symbian WRT widget UI customisation: Guarana UI Library ›
Device capabilities for Symbian WRT widgets:
Nokia Platform Services 2.0 ›
APIBridge ›
Mobilise your on-demand TV services fast with the Web TV template:
Read more about Web TV ›
Web TV template beta ›
