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.
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.
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.
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.
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.