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Match’em Poker Example App
Match'em Poker is 'match 3' style game: Against the clock, players switch cards on a grid to form different poker hands. Originally developed for iOS, the game has been ported to Qt and Windows Phone.
El Mundo and Orbyt: Powered by Windows Phone
Launched two years ago by Spain's El Mundo, Orbyt offers digital news content to consumers on a variety of platforms, including a new app for Nokia Lumia smartphones. According to Enrique Rivas, Product Manager of Unidad Editorial, individuals can download the newspaper that they want to read in one minute, and then enjoy the content wherever they are, even without an internet connection.
Nokia Developer Projects: Surveillance Camera apps
This Surveillance Camera example project demonstrates the use of Nokia's Notifications API. The Notifications API enables you add real-time push notification features to your apps. This example consists of two mobile apps: A Windows Phone Silverlight application uses the Service API to send push notifications to a Qt Quick app on a Symbian smartphone.
Voddler: Powered by Nokia with Windows Phone
Anders Sjoman, VP of Communications at Voddler talks about the company and its app. Voddler provides users with streamed movies and TV shows to their desktop and mobile. The new Voddler application for Nokia Lumia smartphones provides users with the ability to create 'movie nights', where they can invite friends to watch a movie or TV show in person or at the same time virtually.
Pah!: Powered by Nokia with Windows Phone
Yosi Taguri, CEO of Labgoo gives us a demo of their latest application, Pah! Pah! is a game that is completely voice activated. By shouting and make various noises you guide your ship through each of the levels, shooting anything that gets in your way.
Nokia Reading: Lumia 900 hands on demo with Jim McKenzie
Jim McKenzie, Head of Store Merchandising in the Entertainment Group at Nokia gives a demo of the new Nokia Reading app, which is being pre-loaded on the Nokia Lumia 900 in France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Spain, and the UK.
El País: Powered by Windows Phone
El País is Spain’s leading newspaper, with 400,000 copies printed weekly and two million unique users online every day. ‘From the development experience, we realised [we could deliver] a more homogeneous user experience by leveraging the functionality that Windows Phone [enables] within the development kit,’ says Jesús Moreno, Digital Content Director for El País.
Goal.com: Powered by Windows Phone
Goal.com is the world’s largest football portal; available in 15 languages and 22 editions. ‘The mobile experience for Goal.com fans is actually incredibly important — it's all about up-to-date information and scores,’ says Daryn Wober, Head of Global Business Development for Perform, which owns Goal.com.
Porting: A demonstration of Space Blok
A demonstration of Space Blok a game for Symbian, MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan, and Windows Phone platforms. In this game, 1 to 4 players use marbles to break a 3D block structure. An open source physics library is used to provide 3D simulation and realistic collision handling for the game objects.
Learn how to build Windows Phone apps
Reza Alizadeh, an Architect Evangelist at Microsoft provides an in-depth tutorial about how to build a Windows Phone app. Reza shares ideas for how to gain visibility with your mobile app, and increase user retention.
Steve Ballmer at AT&T Developer Summit
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave a keynote address at the AT&T Developer Summit that took place during the International Consumer Electronics Show 2012 in Las Vegas, where he spoke about the incredible opportunity that is ahead for developers with Windows Phone.
Stephen Elop at AT&T Developer Summit
Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop takes the stage at the AT&T Developer Summit 2012, held at the Palms Casino in Las Vegas. Stephen discusses Nokia's strategy, focusing on the ecosystem battle and the new Nokia Lumia family of phones.
Netflix: Powered by Nokia & Windows Phone
Anthony Park, Director of Engineering at Netflix, talks about developing their mobile app for Windows Phone. With this app, Netflix now enables consumers to easily move from watching a video on their TV or computer to continue where they left off on a Nokia Lumia smartphone.
Evernote: Powered by Nokia & Windows Phone
Andrew Sinkov, Vice President of Marketing and Damian Mehers, Senior Software Engineer at Evernote, talk about developing their mobile Evernote app. This Windows Phone app makes it easy for consumers to store memories as pictures, audio, or however they arise, wherever they arise.
Univision: Powered by Nokia & Windows Phone
Jose Hernandez, Vice President Mobile Content and Alfredo Rojas, Mobile Product Manager at Univision Interactive Media talk about developing their Windows Phone app. As consumer viewing habits are evolving, this app is enabling Univision to deliver the best of its Spanish and English language media to the Hispanic community in the US.
Nokia with Windows Phone: Dive into development
This promotional video captures the excitement and enthusiasm for Nokia’s stunning new Lumia hardware running the latest version of Windows Phone. Offering you the ability to be Amazing Everyday, grow your apps’ reach, and realise new business opportunities: Nokia with Windows Phone delivers the tools you know and trust, combined with the local support and training only Nokia can deliver.
PopCap: Powered by Nokia & Windows Phone
Sameer Baroova, Director and Eddie Dowse, Business Development Manager for PopCap discuss their experiences working on their hugely successful game, Plants vs. Zombies for Windows Phone. Sameer and Eddie look forward to the combination of Nokia and Microsoft around the Windows Phone ecosystem.
British Airways by Thin Martian: Powered by Nokia & Windows Phone
James Clarke, Co-Founder and Director of Thin Martian, talks about the experiences creating the new British Airways application for Windows Phone. Through the Metro UI design, Thin Martian was able to great a truly beautiful and engaging design for users of the British Airways app.
Halfbrick: Powered by Nokia & Windows Phone
Jason Harwood, Producer at Halfbrick, and Phil Larsen, Chief Marketing Officer at Halfbrick, discuss the experiences developing with Nokia. Halfbrick's new Fruit Ninja application on Windows Phone has allowed better gameplay for users via faster frames per second as well as additional goodies such as ringtones, and Xbox live achievements.
Poynt: Powered by Nokia & Windows Phone
Bart McCormick, VP of Global Distribution at Poynt, talks about the brand new Poynt application for Nokia with Windows Phone and new features that come with it. For example, through Poynt's seamless integration with Microsoft's Bing, users can leverage the power of Poynt without having to open up any additional applications.
Seesmic: Powered by Nokia & Windows Phone
Loїc Le Meur, CEO of Seesmic, gives an overview of what type of application development Seesmic provides for its clients. John Yamasaki, Director of Product Management at Seesmic, explains the process of creating a new Windows Phone application with the team.
Syntonetic: Powered by Nokia & Windows Phone
Robert Pedersen, Mobile Developer and Kristian Ridley, Chief Technology Officer of Syntonetic discuss the creation of their music app MoodAgent for the Windows Phone platform. With MoodAgent already available on Series 40 and Qt-powered devices in Nokia Store, it was a natural choice to move into the Windows Phone experience.
Foursquare: Powered by Nokia & Windows Phone
Holger Luedorf, VP of Mobile & International at Foursquare showcases the newly developed Foursquare application with enhanced features for Nokia with Windows Phone devices. Holger also discusses the relationship Foursquare holds with Nokia and just how important the global footprint is to their business.
Groupon: Powered by Nokia & Windows Phone
Eric Burke, Mobile Developer at Groupon discusses the experiences working on their new Windows Phone application. By using Visual Studio and Expression Blend, Eric and his team were able to create a clean, crisp, user-friendly interface for their users.
HRS: Powered by Nokia & Windows Phone
Marco Hauprich, Senior VP Mobile & New Media at HRS, talks about the new application on the Windows Phone platform. Through the support from Nokia and Microsoft, HRS was able to have the new app ready for market in only 2 months.
Nokia Developers on the Microsoft Partnership
Recorded at the Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona, these are the candid reactions of developers to the announcement of the Nokia Microsoft partnership. The developers talk about the impact of the news, and the effect it will have on their immediate and long term plans.
Match’em Poker Example App
Match'em Poker is 'match 3' style game: Against the clock, players switch cards on a grid to form different poker hands. Originally developed for iOS, the game has been ported to Qt and Windows Phone. The objective of the porting projects was to keep the app changes and therefore effort to a minimum: Reusing all of the original assets and modifying the code as little as possible. The ports were achieved to Qt using Qt GameEnabler and Windows Phone using XNA. As such, these ports demonstrate an efficient way to implement a sprite-based 2D game using custom animations with Open GL ES 2.0.
El Mundo and Orbyt: Powered by Windows Phone
Launched two years ago by Spain's El Mundo, Orbyt offers digital news content to consumers on a variety of platforms, including a new app for Nokia Lumia smartphones. According to Enrique Rivas, Product Manager of Unidad Editorial, individuals can download the newspaper that they want to read in one minute, and then enjoy the content wherever they are, even without an internet connection.
Nokia Developer Projects: Surveillance Camera apps
This Surveillance Camera example project demonstrates the use of Nokia's Notifications API. The Notifications API enables you add real-time push notification features to your apps. This example consists of two mobile apps: A Windows Phone Silverlight application uses the Service API to send push notifications to a Qt Quick app on a Symbian smartphone. The Qt application receives alert notifications from the Silverlight application when movement is detected.
Voddler: Powered by Nokia with Windows Phone
Anders Sjoman, VP of Communications at Voddler talks about the company and its app. Voddler provides users with streamed movies and TV shows to their desktop and mobile. The new Voddler application for Nokia Lumia smartphones provides users with the ability to create 'movie nights', where they can invite friends to watch a movie or TV show in person or at the same time virtually. Anders states that, 'Voddler blends the whole idea of movie experience online with the power of a phone'.
Pah!: Powered by Nokia with Windows Phone
Yosi Taguri, CEO of Labgoo gives us a demo of their latest application, Pah! Pah! is a game that is completely voice activated. By shouting and make various noises you guide your ship through each of the levels shooting anything that gets in your way. Yosi states that their app is installed on around 1 million devices across various platforms.
Nokia Reading: Lumia 900 hands on demo with Jim McKenzie
Jim McKenzie, Head of Store Merchandising in the Entertainment Group at Nokia gives a demo of the new Nokia Reading app, which is being pre-loaded on the Nokia Lumia 900 in France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Spain, and the UK. This app fronts a service that enables users to read e-books and listen to audio books, as well as read RSS feeds.
El País: Powered by Windows Phone
El País is Spain’s leading newspaper, with 400,000 copies printed weekly and two million unique users online every day. ‘From the development experience, we realised [we could deliver] a more homogeneous user experience by leveraging the functionality that Windows Phone [enables] within the development kit,’ says Jesús Moreno, Digital Content Director for El País. The paper’s Windows Phone app uses the Metro panorama to make news stories and sections easy to browse. Users can pin sections to their home screen as a Live Tile and keep up with the latest stories. ‘We are very happy with the final application,’ says Moreno. ‘It’s a very clean, efficient, and practical-to-use.’
Goal.com: Powered by Windows Phone
Goal.com is the world’s largest football portal; available in 15 languages and 22 editions. ‘The mobile experience for Goal.com fans is actually incredibly important — it's all about up-to-date information and scores,’ says Daryn Wober, Head of Global Business Development for Perform, which owns Goal.com. The Windows Phone app makes full use of the Metro UI and Live Tiles, including one for the main Goal.com content, the English Premier League, and team-specific tiles. Daryn notes that the benefits of working with Nokia and Microsoft are ‘a combination of the platform itself, the potential reach, and the commercial opportunities it brought to us as a business.’
Porting: A demonstration of Space Blok
Space Blok is a fun block structure breaking game for 1 to 4 players. It has been ported from Windows Phone to Qt as well as to desktop environments. This game is a free example app created by Nokia. The game is implemented with Qt 3D and Qt Quick. It also uses an open source physics engine, Bullet Physics Library, to provide 3D simulation and realistic collision handling for the game objects. The audio framework used is Qt GameEnabler.
This example is hosted in a Nokia Developer Project, where you can find implementation and porting notes, discover recent revisions, and contribute to the project.
Learn how to build Windows Phone apps
Reza Alizadeh, an Architect Evangelist at Microsoft provides an in-depth tutorial about how to build a Windows Phone app. Reza shares ideas for how to gain visibility with your mobile app, and increase user retention. He demonstrates quick ways to take advantage of the integration options available for Windows Phone, including: Pictures Hub Extensions; Music and Video Hub Integration; and via App Connect to integrate with Bing Search. He also demonstrates how to easily create Live Tiles and Secondary Tiles, and much more. See how easy it is to develop your app for Nokia Lumia smartphones.
Steve Ballmer at AT&T Developer Summit
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave a keynote address at the AT&T Developer Summit that took place during the International Consumer Electronics Show 2012 in Las Vegas. He spoke about the incredible opportunity that is ahead for developers with Windows Phone. He noted that "successful applications will make more money on Windows and Windows Phone, earning 80 percent of every dollar of revenue, after passing the first $25,000." Ballmer went on to say that, "At Microsoft we believe in creating developer opportunity, and with Windows Phone ... there's really no better time to be a developer on Microsoft platforms."
Stephen Elop at AT&T Developer Summit
Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop takes the stage at the AT&T Developer Summit 2012, held at the Palms Casino in Las Vegas. Stephen discusses Nokia's strategy, focusing on the ecosystem battle and the new Nokia Lumia family of phones. Re-entry to the US market is a key aspect of this strategy and Stephen explains how AT&T is playing a big role: Working with Nokia to deliver the first 4G LTE capable Windows Phone, the Nokia Lumia 900. Touching on the benefits for US developers, Stephen discusses the bigger picture: How Nokia offers any developer the ability to transcend local markets and go global, with support from a full toolkit — such as operator billing and in-app advertising — to monetize apps, worldwide.
Netflix: Powered by Nokia & Windows Phone
Anthony Park, Director of Engineering at Netflix, talks about developing their mobile app for Windows Phone. With this app, Netflix now enables consumers to easily move from watching a video on their TV or computer to continue where they left off on a Nokia Lumia smartphone. Making full use of the Metro UI, the app provides a seamless, easy-to-use experience for consumers. For David the partnership between Nokia and Microsoft is bringing together the best of hardware and software expertise, to deliver a great customer experience.
Evernote: Powered by Nokia & Windows Phone
Andrew Sinkov, Vice President of Marketing and Damian Mehers, Senior Software Engineer at Evernote, talk about developing their mobile Evernote app. This Windows Phone app makes it easy for consumers to store memories as pictures, audio, or however they arise, wherever they arise. These memories are then stored safely and are available to the consumer, over the web, on any device. Damian talks about how Nokia and Microsoft helped from the very beginning in creating Evernote for Windows Phone, including providing feedback on the app before it was released.
Univision: Powered by Nokia & Windows Phone
Jose Hernandez, Vice President Mobile Content and Alfredo Rojas, Mobile Product Manager at Univision Interactive Media talk about developing their Windows Phone app. As consumer viewing habits are evolving, this app is enabling Univision to deliver the best of its Spanish and English language media to the Hispanic community in the US. Alfredo explains how the app makes use of the Metro UI panoramas, to offer consumers a unique experience. The ability for the user to provide information about themselves is also a key feature of the app, enabling Univision to deliver to the consumer the content they want.
Nokia with Windows Phone: Dive into development
This promotional video captures the excitement and enthusiasm for Nokia’s stunning new Lumia hardware running the latest version of Windows Phone. Offering you the ability to be Amazing Everyday, grow your apps’ reach, and realise new business opportunities: Nokia with Windows Phone delivers the tools you know and trust, combined with the local support and training only Nokia can deliver. So dive right in and get started today.
PopCap: Powered by Nokia & Windows Phone
Sameer Baroova, Director and Eddie Dowse, Business Development Manager for PopCap discuss their experiences working on their hugely succesful game, Plants vs. Zombies for Windows Phone. Sameer and Eddie look forward to the combination of Nokia and Microsoft around the Windows Phone ecosystem. "It's like electricity, you only notice it when it's not there," says Eddie. "Good ecosystems should just work in the background." They also noted that you are getting the best of Microsoft and Nokia together, which is a powerful combination.
British Airways by Thin Martian: Powered by Nokia & Windows Phone
James Clarke, Co-Founder and Director of Thin Martian, talks about the experiences creating the new British Airways application for Windows Phone. Through the Metro UI design, Thin Martian was able to great a truly beautiful and engaging design for users of the British Airways app. James and his team even had the opportunity to send code directly to the Nokia Developer team to assist in optimizing the build. For Thin Martian, the Nokia/Microsoft partnership only solidified their decision to work on the Windows Phone platform using the skills their team already has in place. These opportunities provide Thin Martian with a way to create something different and truly unique for their clients worldwide.
Halfbrick: Powered by Nokia & Windows Phone
Jason Harwood, Producer at Halfbrick, and Phil Larsen, Chief Marketing Officer at Halfbrick, discuss the experiences developing with Nokia. Halfbrick's new Fruit Ninja application on Windows Phone has allowed better gameplay for users via faster frames per second as well as additional goodies such as ringtones, and Xbox live achievements. Additionally, with new Nokia NFC enabled devices; users are now able to unlock exclusive content in the game. Fruit Ninja is also available on Xbox Kinect, as showcased in this film; further exemplifying the distribution on multiple platforms. With Halfbrick's experience on multiple platforms and integration with various monetization models their continual success is limitless.
Poynt: Powered by Nokia & Windows Phone
Bart McCormick, VP of Global Distribution at Poynt, talks about the brand new Poynt application for Nokia with Windows Phone and new features that come with it. For example, through Poynt's seamless integration with Microsoft's Bing, users can leverage the power of Poynt without having to open up any additional applications. All information is given in one common interface all within the Poynt application. Another new feature for Poynt on the Windows Phone platform is the ability to pin live tiles directly on the device's home screen. Unlike before, users now have the ability to launch various parts of the Poynt application with one simple touch.
By using efficient development tools such as Visual Studio and Expression Blend, coupled with the support and global distribution of Nokia, Poynt has been able to provide a beautiful and intuitive solution to users worldwide.
Seesmic: Powered by Nokia & Windows Phone
Loїc Le Meur, CEO of Seesmic, gives an overview of what type of application development Seesmic provides for its clients. John Yamasaki, Director of Product Management at Seesmic, explains the process of creating a new Windows Phone application with the team. Through the collaborative efforts between Nokia and Microsoft, Seesmic was able to build an impressive CRM app for Salesforce users. For a small developer like Seesmic, they have been able to take advantage of excellent distribution opportunities within Nokia as well as supplemental relationships with mobile carriers. Nokia's beautiful and sleek devices, combined with an intuitive, easy to use operating system with Windows Phone provide Seesmic with tremendous opportunities now and in the future.
Syntonetic: Powered by Nokia & Windows Phone
Robert Pedersen, Mobile Developer and Kristian Ridley, Chief Technology Officer of Syntonetic discuss the creation of their music app MoodAgent for the Windows Phone platform. With MoodAgent already available on Series 40 and Qt-powered devices in Nokia Store, it was a natural choice to move into the Windows Phone experience. Syntonetic's biggest highlight while developing on the Windows Platform is that they have been able to reuse their .net components not just for mobile applications, but both desktop and web services as well. Since the Windows Phone development environment is nothing new to the Syntonetic team, they were able to focus less on the 'how', and more on the code.
Foursquare: Powered by Nokia & Windows Phone
Holger Luedorf, VP of Mobile & International at Foursquare showcases the newly developed Foursquare application with enhanced features for Nokia with Windows Phone devices. Holger also discusses the relationship Foursquare holds with Nokia and just how important the global footprint is to their business. In fact, 50% of their 10 million users coming from outside of the United States. For Holger, the Nokia/Microsoft partnership will provide Foursquare with a massive international distribution network and great platform to develop and innovate on.
Groupon: Powered by Nokia & Windows Phone
Eric Burke, Mobile Developer at Groupon discusses the experiences working on their new Windows Phone application. By using Visual Studio and Expression Blend, Eric and his team were able to create a clean, crisp, user-friendly interface for their users. The Nokia/Microsoft partnership has provided Groupon with a way to develop applications faster, get to market faster, and take advantage of a global market for wider application distribution.
HRS: Powered by Nokia & Windows Phone
Marco Hauprich, Senior VP Mobile & New Media at HRS, talks about the new application on the Windows Phone platform. Through the support from Nokia and Microsoft, HRS was able to have the new app ready for market in only 2 months. In addition to the Windows Phone platform, HRS is also available on various Qt devices. Through close relations with Nokia, HRS has also been able to integrate their solution with Nokia Maps both on device and on the web. The key to HRS's success is distribution and both Nokia and Microsoft are providing the exact type of leverage they need to achieve a greater user base worldwide.
Nokia Developers on the Microsoft Partnership
Recorded at the Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona, these are the candid reactions of developers to the announcement of the Nokia Microsoft partnership. The developers talk about the impact of the news, and the effect it will have on their immediate and long term plans.
