Windows Phone

Nokia’s flagship product line, the Lumia smartphones, delivers award-winning design, innovative features, and outstanding imaging coupled with the latest Microsoft Windows Phone software. In this lab, we introduce our latest flagship products: the Nokia Lumia 920 and Nokia Lumia 820. Learn about the key features that set these phones apart from the competition. You’ll also get acquainted with key technologies, including PureView imaging and the PureMotion HD+ display. PureView camera technology with Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) and a Carl Zeiss lens means pictures and videos turn out detailed, blur-free, and bright, under any light conditions. No other cameraphone even comes close. PureMotion HD+ is Nokia’s most advanced display technology yet — the world's brightest, fastest, and most sensitive touch screen.

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This lab session introduces you to what’s new in Windows Phone 8, with an emphasis on those features we believe will excite Nokia developers the most. Whether you are completely new to Windows Phone or you have Windows Phone application already in Windows Phone Store, we explain how Windows Phone 8 supports your business and offers new opportunities. We cover new APIs and technologies, enablers for better app monetisation, and cross-platform portability.

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This lab covers the basics of app development for Nokia Lumia smartphones based on the Windows Phone Operating system, with a focus on using the Windows Phone 8 SDK. You will learn about the tools you need and how to target both Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8 devices. Hands-on demonstrations include the creation of a basic Hello World app for Windows Phone. To get the most out of this lab consider installing the Windows Phone 8 SDK before watching. It's not necessary, but you will learn more if they already have the SDK installed.

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Nokia Lumia 920 with Windows Phone 8 is setting the standard in smartphone imaging technology. As a developer you are now able to create apps that use these advancements. In this webinar we’ll cover the possibilities the new Windows Phone 8 give you to create stunning imaging apps. You will learn how to capture superb images and video, control ISO and other parameters, perform multi-frame image capture, get direct access to sensor data, and apply special effects. The Windows Phone 8 native camera app includes a feature called “lenses” that makes is easy for users to apply the effects produced by your app. We’ll show you how to make your app part of this seamless user experience.

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When building for the opportunity presented by the new Microsoft Windows Phone 8, be sure to target the Windows Phone installed base, too. This webinar will cover how to use the Windows Phone SDK 8.0 in developing applications that will work for both Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 7. Michael Samarin of Futurice will explain how to update your existing Windows Phone 7 application by adding new features using APIs available in Windows Phone 8. He’ll also describe how to create a Windows Phone 8 application and make it work for Windows Phone 7 users. Michael will provide an overview of available approaches to multirelease compatibility and will present useful tips and tricks to help you make the most of the Windows Phone market. We encourage you to install the Windows Phone SDK 8.0 before the presentation. While it is not a must for you to get a lot from this training lab, having the SDK installed will add value to the experience.

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This lab explores the features in the Nokia Music API for Windows Phone and shows you how to install and use the API. In the lab there will be a demonstration of how to code with the API to quickly add music features to existing apps and to add music content into your app.
To get the most out of this lab consider installing the Windows Phone 8 SDK before attending. You'll learn a lot even if you haven't installed the SDK, but you'll learn more if you have installed the SDK and can begin using the API as soon as you complete the training.

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Windows Phone 8 offers native code support that enables the development and porting of high-performance games. This lab provides an overview of the Windows Phone 8 capabilities supporting complex game development, introduces the tools and frameworks that increase your productivity, and demonstrates a hands-on approach to games development with the Windows Phone 8 SDK. With frameworks such as Direct3D and support for popular physics and rendering engines, you can now create games with native performance as well as use their your own or third-party engines and middleware for games development for Windows Phone 8.

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Near Field Communication (NFC) is an emerging short-range radio technology that is poised to revolutionise how we use mobile phones in everyday interactions. In this webinar, we introduce you to the basics of NFC and how the technology is implemented in Nokia Lumia phones. We also demonstrate how you can use NFC from the Microsoft Windows Phone 8 Proximity API in your applications to share content, read data from and write data to NFC tags, and create your own application-launch tags.

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App-to-app-communication support is a powerful addition to Microsoft Windows Phone 8, which enables your apps to use the functionality of other apps. And when you register the types of files and URI resources that your apps can handle, it also helps increase the discoverability of your apps in Windows Phone Store. In this lab, you learn how to use file and URI associations for app-to-app communication. You also see how to use these associations to have your app automatically launched when another app launches a specific file type or URI scheme and learn about deep links that send a reference to the file or URI to your app. This webinar also introduces the association-launching API, which enables your app to launch another app in the same way.

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As part of the Nokia Premium Developer Program, you're granted up to 1 million calls per month to Buddy.com, the cloud service that lets you build Windows Phone 8 apps quickly, without worrying about the backend. In this webinar you’ll see how to get started with Buddy.com, so you can hit the ground running without having to worrying about the backend.

Creating a cloud-based application offers many advantages, including increased security for your users' data, the ability to build communities around your app, and the ability to share content across multiple devices seamlessly. However, setting up a server infrastructure to implement your cloud can be a major hurdle. This is where Buddy.com comes in, offering a hosted service for your cloud-based apps.

In this webinar coding demonstrations show you the Buddy APIs that deliver common app scenarios as a service. Using Buddy APIs, you can instantly add functionality such as global user accounts, photo albums, messaging, friends/groups functionality, push notifications, and more.

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With membership in the Nokia Premium Developer Program you’re provided a free license to the entire suite of Telerik RadControls. These controls are designed to decrease development time for your Lumia apps and to help increase the ratings of your apps in the Windows Phone Store. In this webinar, we’ll give you a brief overview of RadControls for Windows Phone, including interaction controls for animations, charting, and trial reminders; productivity controls, including diagnostics; and design controls, including Metro design templates and hub tile controls. Then Michael Crump, an evangelist with Telerik, will illustrate the use of the controls and development techniques in coding demonstrations. Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone is a suite of more than 40 custom controls designed to shorten your apps’ time to market and to help your apps rank higher in the Windows Phone Store. RadControls for Windows Phone is used by a number of publishers with top-selling apps and offers a wide range of capabilities to complement the stock UI toolbox, such as powerful animations, data visualisation, and design templates.

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Testing Microsoft Windows Phone 8 apps on multiple Nokia Lumia smartphones has been an expensive exercise in buying and maintaining several smartphones in your own testing lab — until now. We recently added a range of Nokia Lumia smartphones to our Remote Device Access (RDA) service. Now you can test your apps on multiple models, free of charge, any time of day or night. In this training-lab webinar, we’ll show you how to access RDA for free, outline its features, show you how to set up your computer to use the service, and review the limitations of the service. If you want to give your apps a thorough testing across the range of Nokia Lumia smartphones before submitting them to the Windows Phone Store, RDA is just the ticket.

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If you want to add location capabilities to your Windows Phone apps, this webinar will get you started. Join us to learn how to use the location-related capabilities of Nokia Lumia smartphones, the Windows Phone Location APIs, and the HERE Location Platform. We'll start by going through the basics; retrieving location information from the phone and registering for background location notifications. Then continue by looking at the map-related services APIs available for your Lumia apps, including map rendering, geocoding, and routing controls. There'll be plenty of live coding and a summary of the tips and tricks you can use to make your apps shine.

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