Videos

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.

Nokia Developer at Mobile World Congress 2013

Join Kenny Mathers, Director, Programs and Monetisation at Nokia, to discover the success Nokia found at this year's Mobile World Congress. Among the show highlights: 2000 developers visiting the Apps Developer Conference, launch of the Nokia Lumia 720 and Nokia Lumia 520, Asha Developer Competition, relaunch of the Nokia Developer Champions program, Premium Developer Program, Nokia Ad Exchange, 3D printing, and nine awards.

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.

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.

aMaze - 3D labyrinth game example

This video presents a 3D maze game developed for Series 40 full touch phones. The application demonstrates the use of Mobile 3D Graphics API (JSR-184) for rendering 3D graphics, pinch and double tap gestures for zooming, and accelerometer sensor for game controls. The concept of the game is classic and simple: guide the marble through the maze by tilting the phone until the time runs out.
For downloads, source, and more information, visit the aMaze project.

LWUIT for Series 40 - Rich UIs developed quickly

This video introduces LWUIT for Series 40, a Series 40 port of a popular open source UI toolkit that can be used for rapid development of impressive application user interfaces.
LWUIT provides a comprehensive portfolio of customisable and themable UI components that can be shown in different layouts. LWUIT UIs scale to different screen resolutions and orientations and provide built-in support for keypad and touch input. LWUIT for Series 40 adds support for Series 40 platform features such as Nokia TextEditor, Series 40 Gesture Framework, Here Maps, and Category Bar.
Developing with LWUIT is faster than with custom canvas. LWUIT also provides easy portability and requires less maintenance. LWUIT is part of Nokia 2.0 SDK for Java. For the latest improvements and source code visit the LUWIT project and don't forget to check out the example applications.

Series 40 Java Game Examples

This video showcases a number of example game applications developed in Java ME for Nokia Series 40 phones.
The applications effectively use various Series 40 capabilities and dedicated APIs: Game API, Mobile 3D Graphics API for J2ME (JSR-184) API, accelerometer sensor, and game effects. For maximum reach over the large portfolio of Series 40 models, adaptive design principles are widely deployed. Portrait and landscape orientation with different screen resolutions are supported using scalable graphics, and many of the games support both touch and keypad controls. Special attention has been paid to performance optimisation and good user experience.

Weather App - a location-aware application with Nokia Ad Exchange

Weather App is an example Series 40 Java application that demonstrates location-retrieval using CellId or GPS and integration of Nokia Ad Exchange to monetise the application with ads. The application has been made scalable, to support the various touch and non-touch user interface styles on Series 40, including the UI on the latest Asha Touch phones.
For downloads, source, and more information, please visit the app's project.
For more Java example apps from Nokia Developer, please check out the Java Examples page.
For more on Nokia Ad Exchange, please check out the NAX page.

Branding your Series 40 full touch app

Are you thinking about how to make your brand more visible in your apps for the full-touch UI on Series 40? Mikko Kaipio, Senior UX Designer, provides you with tips and techniques to achieve that, without breaking the overall UX consistency with your target phone.

For more information see the Branding section of the Series 40 Full Touch Design Guidelines.

Paint - a touch-based paint application

Paint is a Series 40 Java application that demonstrates the use of touch events, including the multi-point touch support on the latest Asha Touch phones. It shows how to implement high-performance touch event handling, as well as circumvent touchscreen limitations by using simple mathematics.
For downloads, source, and more information, please visit the app's project.
For more Java example apps from Nokia Developer, please check out the Java Examples page.

Tourist Attractions - A location-aware city guide example app with in-app purchasing

Tourist Attractions is a Nokia Developer example app written in Java for Series 40 phones. It demonstrates the use of the Location API for Java ME (JSR-179) and the HERE Maps API for Java ME (formerly the Nokia Maps API) to retrieve and show location information as well as details of nearby attractions. In addition, it incorporates the In-App Purchase API to enable the purchase and download of additional city guides.
This application works on most Series 40 phones, ranging from entry-level models to the highly successful Asha family of smartphones.
For downloads, source, and more information, please visit the app's project.
For more information on in-app purchase, please see the Java Developer's Library.
For more Java example apps from Nokia Developer, please check out the Java Examples page.

Optimising Graphics for Series 40 Apps

Are you wondering what to consider when designing and optimising graphics for your Series 40 apps? In this video Mikko Kaipio, Senior UX Designer, provides you with tips and best practices for graphics in Series 40 apps.
He also briefly reviews the key decisions that need to be made when porting your Android app graphics to the successful Nokia Asha family of Series 40 phones.

The apps featured in this video are available from the Java Code Examples section.

For more information, you may want to review the following library and wiki articles:

• Adaptive Design and Development on Series 40
• Code-based gradients
• Graphics scalability approaches for Series 40 Java ME apps

Introducing Nokia Ad Exchange

Kenny Mathers, Director of Developer Programs and Monetisation at Nokia, introduces Nokia Ad Exchange (NAX). Kenny describes how NAX offers a really simple way for you to monetise your free apps. A single line of code adds ads from over 120 advertising networks to your app, ads that can be delivered in over 200 countries. To help you make the most of NAX, Kenny explains that it includes a powerful analytics feature. With this feature you can see how ads are being consumed and use this information to optimise you revenue. Using NAX you can also run campaigns to promote your apps and reach more users.

Now Boarding Developers: Nokia Lumia with Windows Phone 8

The new Nokia Lumia with Windows Phone 8 brings developers a powerful new opportunity. This winning combination delivers product innovation ... new developer technologies ... new revenue models, languages, and markets ... world-class Nokia support ... and the new Nokia Premium Developer Program, which provides benefits worth as much as $1,500 US for just $99. Opportunity is knocking — are you going to answer that?

Coltran Studios: Powered by Windows Phone

When Simon Jäger, a developer, met Jason Zielinski, an artist, amazing things started to happen. They formed Coltran Studios, based in Sweden and Chicago. Learn how the two brought their ‘Cradle to the Grave’ mobile game to Windows Phone. Says Zielinski: ‘This is real, this is amazing, this is brilliant’.

Michelin Guides: Powered by Windows Phone

Back in 1900, when the Michelin Brothers published their first guide, there were only 4,000 cars in all of France. Flash forward 112 years, and today Michelin’s online guide works with both Nokia Maps and Nokia Drive; now restaurants in Helsinki that receive the Michelin window sticker also get a Nokia NFC tag. Tap the tag with your Nokia phone, and you’ll learn whether that eatery was truly worth the detour.

Qubop: Powered by Windows Phone

MobiPark by Qubob solves two parking problems: Finding your parked car in a big city, and remembering when the parking meter’s timer is about to run out. The company ported the app to Windows Phone, and Evan Kirchoff, the company’s CTO, is glad they did. Windows Phone, he says, is ‘more beautiful and more functional’. Windows Phone is also a growing platform, one developers can ride to international markets. Learn why Chia Hwu, Qubop’s CEO, says Nokia support has been superb.

Nokia Ad Exchange

With Nokia Ad Exchange (NAX) you can add ads to your apps, with just a line of code. That line of code gives you access to over 120 advertising networks, delivering ads in over 200 countries. Once you are up and running powerful analytics help you track ad consumption and optimise your revenue. You can also use the Campaign feature to cross promote your apps for free or run a paid campaign to promote your app on others’ mobile apps worldwide.

Nokia Premium Developer Program

The Nokia Premium Developer Program (NPDP) is a high-value suite of services and tools aimed at helping you optimise your Windows Phone development. For an annual fee of just $99 US, NPDP gives you benefits — including membership in Microsoft Dev Center and much more — worth up to $1,500 US

Updating Custom Series 40 UI Designs for Nokia Asha Touch Phones

Do you have a custom Series 40 UI design that you want to take to the full-touch UI? Or are you creating a new custom design for the successful Nokia Asha family of Series 40 phones?
Mikko Kaipio, Senior UX Designer, shows you what to consider in your custom app design when taking it from non-touch or touch and type phones to full-touch phones. His advice is equally useful if you are starting with a new app's design. If your app is based on LCDUI, also check the Updating Series 40 UI Designs for Nokia Asha Touch Phones video.
The aMaze app featured in this video is available from Nokia Developer Projects.

Testing your Series 40 Java apps using RDA

With Remote Device Access (RDA) you can test your Java apps on a wide range of real Series 40 phones from the comfort of your office, without having to buy a single phone. Make sure you have a Nokia Developer account, then simply sign into the RDA service, pick a phone, and install your app to be testing on one of 10 different Series 40 phone models.
In this video you will see how to connect to a phone, interact with it through the RDA client, install your software and use the features of the RDA client, including adjusting the display quality to optimise performance, accessing the phone's file system, and taking screenshots among others.

Series 40 UX Design Resources Tour

So you want to create outstanding UXs for your Series 40 apps. In this video you get a tour of the resources available in the Nokia Developer Design and User Experience library, which will get you on the road to a winning design. Covering resources for Java and web apps, this video also includes key general design resources that will help you navigate the design process. With information on where to find examples, mock-up stencils, and icon templates, viewing is a must whether you are new to Series 40 or simply want to refresh your knowledge of the design resources available.

Nokia Developer Projects: Multi-Platform Drumkit Example App

Drumkit is a Nokia Developer example app for Series 40, Windows Phone, Symbian, and the Nokia N9 phone. The app demonstrates the playing of low-latency audio. The custom UI scales, varying the layout of the drum pads based on the phone's screen size. Multipoint-touch is used, where supported. Three versions of the app have been developed using Java ME, XNA, and the Qt framework.

Updating Series 40 UI Designs for Nokia Asha Touch Phones

Do you have a Series 40 UI design that you want to take to the full-touch UI? Or are you creating a new design for the successful Nokia Asha family of Series 40 phones?
Mikko Kaipio, Senior UX Designer, shows you what to consider when designing for a move from non-touch or touch and type phones to full-touch phones. His advice is equally useful if you are starting with a new app's design.

mxData: Creating Metro apps for Nokia Asha Touch

Michael Cliffe, Chief Technology Officer at mxData talks about the development of Metro for Asha Touch phones and the opportunities he sees in targeting the Nokia Asha 308 and Nokia Asha 309.
mxData specialises in travel applications for trains and buses. Its set of metro apps app provides details of the underground networks in several cities and include maps, route planning, and station finder features. The company is strong in the UK, with 350,000 people using the London Tube Map app every day.
Nokia Asha Touch phones offer the company a great opportunity to expand into overseas markets, to cover cities such as Beijing and Delhi. Cliffe sees Nokia Asha Touch phones as ‘nice, simple phone(s), easy to use, comfortable in your hand and yet they are still capable of running some quite sophisticated applications.’ He is also particularly impressed with their battery life.
mxData has been creating apps for new markets using the Nokia SDK 2.0 for Java. Cliffe says that using the SDK ‘was a really straightforward experience,’ with one developer completing the work in three to four weeks. The emulator, memory monitoring, and on-device debugging are singled out by Cliffe as helping get the app to market quickly. And targeting the 308 and 309 required the resubmission of the apps to Nokia Store only; they had to make no code changes.
‘We’ve had some great experiences with the Nokia Store,’ says Cliffe. ‘Working tightly with Nokia we’ve had great in-store promotions and we have seen increased downloads, increased usage and of course ad revenue as a result.’

Introducing Xpress Web App Builder

Join musician Ben and discover the power and simplicity of Xpress Web App Builder. Ben wants to deliver content from his website and social media accounts, to fans with Series 40 phones, in one simple to use app. Xpress Web App Builder enables him to do this. With this simple online tool, Ben delivers his content with engaging layouts that he just drags and drops into the app. When he is finished, Ben distributes the app through Nokia Store. And when he is ready, the code from his app can be passed to a developer for further customisation in Nokia Web Tools.

Introduction to the Nokia IDE 1.0 for Java ME

Get an introduction to the Nokia IDE for Java ME. Based on Eclipse MJT, the Nokia IDE delivers features to make your apps development easier. These features include a set of welcome screens, the Device SDK Manager — which makes selecting the SDKs you need easy — and a Nokia specific JAD attribute editor among others. This video will provide you with a good overview of what to expect when you start work with the IDE.

Introduction to using Remote Device Access to test Asha Touch apps

Antti Mattila, Software Developer at Futurice, provides a guide to using the Remote Device Access service as part of your Series 40 Java apps development process. Mattila shows you how to locate the service and book a phone. He then demonstrates a number of apps running side-by-side on a Asha Touch phone and in RDA, to show how RDA provides a useful environment for testing games and apps on phone models you don't own.

Get started with LWUIT for Series 40

LWUIT provides you with an easy way to add rich UI components and features to Java apps. Now, LWUIT is delivered as part of the Nokia SDK 2.0 for Java, simplifying the development of engaging apps for Nokia Asha Touch phones. In this video you will see how to prepare for the creation of LWUIT based apps in the Nokia IDE for Java ME, code a simple app, use obfuscation to control the size of installation package, and run a contacts app example on a Series 40 phone.

Introduction to the full release Nokia SDK 2.0 for Java

Mike Arvela, Lead Developer at Futurice, provides a guide to the full release of the Nokia SDK 2.0 for Java. Arvela discusses the new APIs delivered in the SDK, such as those providing multipoint-touch support. Then he looks at the new and updated features of the emulator, such as support for Nokia Maps in the route editor and the sensor simulator. This video will provide you with a good overview of what is new and what to expect when you start work with the SDK.

Monetizing Your Apps with Nokia

Nokia Store expands your worldwide reach to 190+ markets, with 90 per cent of those markets being served in their local language. The store sees more than 15 million downloads a day and 80 per cent of store traffic converts to a download. Nokia Store generates the highest average number of downloads per app compared to any other app store. The store also offers the largest operator billing network, with more than 145 operators in 52 markets. And you can make the most of this opportunity with in-app advertising and in-app purchasing features.

Offscreen: 100 million downloads on Nokia Store

Harri Myllynen, CEO at Offscreen Technologies, talks about the success this Finnish developer has found for its mobile games, utilities, media, entertainment, and internet apps through Nokia Store.
The team behind Offscreen started creating apps in 2003 and formed the company in 2005 as the interest in smartphones grew. They now employ 16 people in Helsinki and Shanghai.
While the range of apps the company has created is wide, they have learnt that simple apps can be the most successful — as exemplified by their Bright Light app, which turns on a phone’s flash LED to act as a torch. ‘It’s still the most downloaded application of ours. It took about six hours to develop including the graphic design, yet it’s so popular,’ says Harri.
In addition, by making their apps available for free, according to Harri, they see an immediate 100-fold increase in downloads. Offscreen then uses in-app advertising or in-app purchasing to monetise these apps — with half the company’s application revenue coming from in-app advertising.
“We are very pleased to working with Nokia, with the reach that Nokia Store offers to almost 200 countries,” says Harri. ‘And the whole team felt really proud and happy when we reached 100 million downloads.’

Inode: 100 million downloads on Nokia Store

Jamie Enriquez, Founder and CEO at Inode Entertainment, talks about the success this Mexican developer has found for its mobile games, apps, and content through Nokia Store.
Inode started adding content to Nokia Store three years ago, because of the reach it offers. It was an immediate success and the revenue soon meant Jamie and his brother could hire an additional developer and graphic designer.
‘The journey has been a lot of fun,’ says Jamie. ‘From having one million downloads last year to 100 million downloads this year, that’s a reflection on how much Nokia cares about their local developers.’
At the beginning of the year Jamie set a goal of 3 million downloads per day and Inode is close to achieving that goal today.
‘We are really happy to keep partnering with Nokia,’ says Jamie, ‘developing for Lumia and Asha, to deliver great content for our users.’

Series 40 Java Training: USB Debugging

In this training video you will see how to connect a Nokia Asha phone to your PC using a USB connection and then undertake performance profiling and debugging on the phone.

Download the source for used in this video here.

Series 40 Java Training: Motion Input

In this training video you will see how to use accelerometers to pan and tilt through a panoramic image, and see how the sensor input speed must be decoupled from the animation loop to maximize the frame rate on the Nokia Asha 305 and 306.

Download the source for used in this video here.

Series 40 Java Training: Virtual Keyboard and Canvas Text Editor

In this training video you will see how to how to make use of the virtual keyboard and text editing features on a Canvas, along with learning about tips on the best use of these features.

Download the source for used in this video here.

Series 40 Java Training: Orientation and One Build for Multiple Phones

In this training video you will see how to take an existing application and update it to include portrait/landscape switching support. This is done using a single JAR file build from Nokia SDK 1.1 for Java. The resulting app runs on earlier and later, accelerometer-equipped phones and demonstrate how the UX is improved by the use of adaptive layouts in the two views.

Download the source for used in this video here.

Series 40 Java Training: Category Bar for Navigation

In this training video you will see how to build a simple Form-based application with a basic two element category bar and have that bar functioning in a few minutes.

Download the source for used in this video here.

100 Million in 100 Seconds

How big is 100 million? Discover how big and join Nokia Developer in congratulating Indiagames, Pico Brothers, and Inode Entertainment on achieving 100 million downloads from Nokia store.

Indiagames 100 Million Downloads on Nokia Store

Vishal Gondal, Managing Director of Digital, Disney UTV talks about the success Indiagames has achieved working closely with Nokia and distributing its apps through Nokia Store. The company focuses on ABCD games — action, Bollywood, cricket, and driving — with a strong focus on localised content. Commenting on the success of Nokia Store, Gondal mentions their RA.ONE game. Gondal says that he was ‘expecting to do, probably, 500 thousand downloads in six months … but we did 1 million downloads in six days – that is scale, that is the popularity of the Nokia platform (and) Nokia Store.”

Indiagames: Java for Series 40 Developer Platform 2.0

Vishal Gondal, Managing Director of Digital, and Prasad Nair, Executive Producer, Mobile Digital, at Disney UTV talk about the exciting new opportunities they see in the Nokia Asha Touch phones and new tools for Java developers.
Based in Mumbai, India, Indiagames has already achieved 100 million downloads on Nokia Store.
For Gondal ‘the new Asha touch devices ... could be a game changer for a market like India.’ While Nair sees the new ‘APIs, likes gestures and sensors, (allowing users) to interact with the games in much more entertaining ways than before’. Nair is also impressed by the new Nokia IDE 2.0 for Java. In particular how the tools, such as the emulator’s orientation simulator, make developing for the new UI and hardware features found on Nokia Asha Touch phones simple and straightforward.

Psiloc: World Traveler for Series 40 Developer Platform 2.0

Wojciech Nowanski, COO, and Muhammad Ahmmad, Creative Programmer, at Psiloc talk about developing World Traveler —an app for business and leisure travellers —for Nokia Asha Touch phones that was created using the latest Java tools from Nokia Developer. Nowanski explains how the application arose from the frustration of not being able to get information about a delayed flight. Now World Traveler puts flights, currency, and world time information at Nowanski’s fingertips. The app took a small team four months to produce. In addition to the features of the Nokia SDK for Java, the LWUIT was of particular benefit in speeding up the development ‘because it has a wide variety of UI components and we don’t have to worry about implementing from scratch,’ says Ahmmad. The most significant aspect of the development was that ‘Series 40 devices are getting smarter and more powerful, allowing us to create richer applications,’ according to Ahmmad.

Creating apps for Asha Touch phones

This video provides an insight into how developers from around the world are taking advantages of the Java and web apps technology in the Nokia Asha Touch phones to deliver great experiences to their users. Hear Indiagames, Psiloc, and Liverpool FC and InfoMedia explain the benefits of developing for Series 40 Developer Platform 2.0 and the success they have achieved. Also discover how the latest tools — Nokia SDK 2.0 for Java and Nokia Web Tools 2.0 — have aided with development.

Liverpool FC: Match & News Centre for Asha Touch

Kathy Smith, Mobile Manager, at Liverpool FC and Sanjay Mistry, Operations Director, InfoMedia, talk about the Liverpool FC Match & News Centre.
Kathy explains that the app provides access to news, club information, and match details. In addition, videos are offered as a premium service. ‘Nokia devices are massively popular in the territories where we have large fan bases,’ says Kathy.
The app was developed for Liverpool FC by InfoMedia. InfoMedia chose to create a web app because of the company’s background. In addition to finding the Nokia Web Tools easy to install and use, Mistry notes that the app was built using three of the templates provided with the tool. ‘With the faster rendering of the (Nokia Asha Touch) handset we were able to build out richer experiences ... to use higher quality images, use better technology to ensure the user flow and (navigation) swiping … were more intuitive than a standard website,’ says Mistry.

Remoter: Powered by Qt

Remoter is a Qt app that lets you remotely control your computer using a virtual touchpad and keyboard. It's a clever way to control slide presentations, music, videos, browse the web, or write text without needing to be near your PC. Remoter has already achieved in excess of 1.2 million downloads from the Nokia Store.

Nokia Developer Projects: Custom QML VideoPlayer

The Custom VideoPlayer is a reusable QML component for video playback. It supports different resolutions, transparent overlay components, and also allows the user to show or hide the play controls. Mobile application developers can easily embed this component into their Qt Quick applications.

Series 40 web apps technical how to: Debugging

Andrew Knight shares technical tips about debugging your Nokia Series 40 web apps. Using the Nokia Web Tools development environment, Andrew gives you a quick and informative look at how to debug web apps on Nokia Series 40 phones, including the new Asha range.

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.

Series 40 Web Apps : BBC Reader Part 1 - Debugging

In this Series 40 web app training module, based around a BBC Reader app, you will learn how to use the features of the Nokia Web Tools to debug your web apps.

Download the source code used in this module here.

Series 40 Web Apps: BBC Reader Part 2 - Error Handling

In this Series 40 web app training module based around a BBC Reader app, you will learn how to implement error handling in your web app effectively and efficiently.

Download the source code used in this module here.

Nokia Series 40 Web Apps: BBC Reader Part 3 - Working with the Console

In this Series 40 web app training module based around a BBC Reader app, you will learn how to use the console to assist with your web app development.

Download the source code used in this module here.

Series 40 Web Apps: BBC Reader Part 4 - JavaScript Templates

In this Series 40 web app training module based around a BBC Reader app, you will learn how to use JavaScript templating to create HTML.

Download the source code used in this module here.

Series 40 Web Apps: BBC Reader Part 5 - Opening Articles

In this Series 40 web app training module based around a BBC Reader app, you will learn the techniques that can be used to open and display the details from a web article.

Download the source code used in this module here.

Series 40 Web Apps Part 1: Button example

In this first steps training module get started with a Series 40 web app by creating a button that triggers an action. The module introduces the MWL library APIs for showing and hiding elements on page.

Download the source code used in this module here.

Series 40 Web Apps Part 2: Button counter example

In this first steps training module learn how application state (in this case, the value of the counter) can be retained on the Series 40 web app Proxy Server. The client never knows the actual value of the counter, receiving updates to its HTML only. This show how intensive computation and large amounts of data can be processed by the server, while the client receives small updates, saving battery and bandwidth.

Download the source code used in this module here.

Series 40 Web Apps Part 3: Creating pages

In this first steps training module you will see how to implement “screens” or “pages” in a web app and navigate between them. No server communication takes place – the application runs entirely on the client.

Download the source code used in this module here.

Series 40 Web Apps Part 4: Animation and transitions

In this first steps training module you will discover how to animate elements on your pages by changing their positions and implement an effect to transition between web app pages.

Download the source code used in this module here.

Series 40 Web Apps Part 5: Ajax

In this first steps training module learn how to use Ajax to communicate with other servers from your web app. You will use jQuery and geolocate service to explore the use of Ajax and observe the behaviour of web app in Local and Cloud Preview from the Nokia Web Tools.

Download the source code used in this module here.

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.

Series 40 Java Training: Apps Development Tools

In this training module discover what software to install, from where, and in what order to enable Java development for Series 40 phones. The module focuses on the features of the tools and avoiding common setup mistakes, with a brief glimpse of each tool for an understanding of their features and purpose.

Series 40 Java Training: Forms and Dual Sim

In this training module you discover how to use the Netbeans IDE to create a Form-based application that makes proper use of the Nokia APIs for checking the network state on single- and dual-SIM phones.

Download the source code used in this module here.

Series 40 Java Training: Progressive Audio

This training module show you how easy it is to “HTTP stream” audio from any web server to a Series 40 phone, if you know the tricks.

Download the source code used in this module here.

Series 40 Java Training: Custom Items in Scrollable UIs

In this training module you will learn how to create a translucent user interface with custom painters on a Form. This technique offers fast development of a tailored look that mirrors the active theme colours in the user inteface.

Download the source code used in this module here.

Series 40 Java Training: Progressive Video

This training module show you how easy it is to “HTTP stream” video from any web server or memory card on a Series 40 phone.

Download the source code used in this module here.

Series 40 Java Training: Text Input

In this training module you find out about Nokia’s enhancements for pop-up text input, gauge, and date input then link them together with events. A second demo creates a Canvas application using Nokia’s custom Text Editor class to enhance the user experience.

Download the Form and Canvas source code used in this module.

Series 40 Java Training: SMS Push

In this training module you will discover how to create an application that pushes messages from one phone to another, waking up the application on the second phone when the message is received.

Download the source code used in this module here.

Series 40 Java Training: Threads, Architecture and Performance

In this training module you are introduced to more advance concepts that will help make your applications run faster. You will learn about techniques you can use to check and improve the performance of your app. The tools and techniques used in several of the modules that follow are seen here for the first time.

Download the source code here.

Series 40 Java Training: Canvas and Gestures

In this training module you are walked through a Frame Animator API example, using the BBC Reader app. You see how to create an animated image browser using the Gesture API, build a custom side scroll animation, and manage views in combination to deliver an engaging user experience.

Download the browser and BBC Reader.

Series 40 Java Training: RMS and Files

This training modules shows you how to use the utility thread model, introduced in the previous module, to store data in the on-phone Record Management System and on a memory card.

Download the source code used in this module here.

Series 40 Java Training: HTTP and XML

In this training module you will discover how to quickly integrate data from an XML RSS feed into your app, using a background utility thread model and simplified XML parsing techniques.

Download the source code used in this module here.

Series 40 Java Training: Maps and Location

In this training module you will learn how to display the user's current location, a target location, and calculate a route between the two using the Maps API for Java ME.

Download the source code used in this module here.

Series 40 Java Training: In-App Advertising

In this training module you will see how to create a simple application that uses the In-App Advertising APIs to display an ad each time a game starts.

Download the source code used in this module here.

How to create a Symbian launcher icon with Adobe Illustrator

This video shows you how to convert your existing app icon image into a Symbian launcher squircle using Adobe Illustrator and the Nokia icon toolkit. Full details of the process are provided here.

Creating a launcher icon with Inkscape template 1 for Symbian

This video shows you how to convert your existing glyph SVG app icon into a Symbian launcher squircle using Inkscape and the Nokia icon toolkit. Full details of the process are provided here.

Creating a launcher icon with Inkscape template 2 for Symbian

This video shows you how to convert your existing SVG app icon into a Symbian launcher squircle using Inkscape and the Nokia icon toolkit. Full details of the process are provided here.

Create a simple prototype for your next Nokia app

This video will show you simple methods for taking the idea for your next app and put it on paper. From there, you can use various software to make your prototype a reality. Adobe Illustrator is one solution for this. Other tools used in the video are Balsamiq and Inkscape. Be sure to check out the Nokia Icon Toolkit for some template icons you can use in your app. With the visual design stencils you can easily sketch how your app will look.

Avoid pitfalls when designing apps for Symbian devices

This 'how to' video shows you some common pitfalls you may stumble across when designing apps for Symbian, and using the Qt Quick Components. The pitfalls are also discussed in the Symbian Design Guidelines library found here. Be sure to check the Remote Device Access service for testing your applications.

How to create a Symbian launcher icon from a glyph with Adobe Illustrator

This video shows you how to convert your existing app icon glyph into a Symbian launcher squircle using Adobe Illustrator and the Nokia icon toolkit. Full details of the process are provided here.

Mobile World Congress 2012 Montage

This montage of MWC 2012 highlights shows that this was a hugely successful event for Nokia. The Nokia Developer Day set the stage by announcing the winners of the Create for Millions developer competition, followed by various keynote speeches by both Nokia and key partners. Device launches, such as the Nokia 808 PureView, the Nokia Lumia 610, and global availability Nokia Lumia 900 had their share of attention.

Bryan Biniak keynote at MWC 2012

Bryan Biniak, VP of Global Partner and App Development for Nokia discusses the recent app development partnerships and how they will focus on original app content to change the overall consumer experience. Biniak announces Nokia's latest partnership, one with Michelin to expand on all aspects of travel including hotel reservations, traffic, and tourism exclusively for Nokia devices.

Richard Kerris' keynote at MWC 2012

Richard Kerris, VP, Head of Global Developer Relations at Nokia, speaks to developers about the many opportunities for making applications on Nokia platforms successful. Richard emphasises that Nokia wants to help developers build their business, by offering support and providing options for monetization.

Kraft and Nokia Announce Partnership at MWC 2012

Bonin Bough, VP of Global and Consumer Engagement at Kraft Foods, talks about the creation of the Kraft Mobile Innovation Lab, which will develop broad strategies - from games to the development of social experiences - for Kraft's mobile content. Kraft has partnered with Nokia and Windows on this project to provide utility, entertainment, and meaningful mobile experiences to its users.

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.

Marco Argenti keynote at MWC 2012

Marco Argenti, Senior Vice President of Developer Experience at Nokia gave a keynote address at the Nokia Developer Day during Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona, Spain. Marco highlighted the results stemming from Nokia's strategy, based on two key pillars of 'Winning with Microsoft' and 'Connecting the next billion', noting that 'We made huge progress on both'.

Red Bull Keynote at MWC 2012

Alexander Koppel, Chief Commercial Officer of Red Bull Media House, announces the partnership between his company and Nokia at Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona. This partnership, which was built on the three principles of challenge, partnerhip, and brand, was forged to bring mobility to the next level and create a brand new experience for all users.

Create For Millions: Fun & Games Winner

Ari Nykänen discusses the success of his new application, Sushi Loop, which he and a team of eight people created in 2-3 weeks. This application is the first Series 40 app created by the team and its second self-published one. The application is expected to be released on Meego, Symbian, Qt, and Windows Phone in the near future.

Create For Millions: In the Know Winner

Independent developer James Mwai talks about his experience developing for the Series 40 platform using Nokia Web Tools. Mwai's application, AroundMe, was the Grand Prize winner for Create For Millions: In the Know. The application helps users find businesses and services, wherever they're located.

Create For Millions: Best Touch App Winner

Alexander Furgut and Martin Weihrauch talk about Sandbox, which won 'Best Touch-Based App' in the Create for Millions competition. Sandbox simulates the fall and flow of virtual sand grains. The sand falls from the top of the screen and the player's task is to guide it into different pots. This is achieved by drawing lines with their finger directly on the touch-screen, which the sand cannot pass.

Create For Millions: Emotional Closeness Winner

Mohammed Diab discusses the success of his new application, I'm Feeling...!, which fetches your friends status from social networks and tries to classify them into specific categories. Mohammed states that in the future the app will support different languages, as well as different platforms. His best piece of advice for aspiring developers is, 'If you have an idea, go for it'.

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'.

Marcus Backlund - Voddler Keynote at MWC 2012

Marcus Backlund, Chief Executive Officer of Voddler, announces the partnership with Nokia at Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona. Voddler offers the best Hollywood movies to mobile devices; box office hits and classics from over 45 of the world's leading content providers. With a database of more than 5,000 movies, Voddler and Nokia will connect online and mobile entertainment for an enhanced user experience.

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.

Nokia Developer Projects: Compass Example App

Compass is a Nokia showcase example application that demonstrates the use of the Qt Location API and Nokia Maps with the compass sensor. This application can be used as a traditional compass with Nokia Maps and it allows the user to determine the bearing to the desired direction. The tracking function draws the travelled route to the map and the route can be saved in KML format.

Series 40 web apps technical how to: Localizing

Andrew Knight shares technical tips about localizing your Series 40 web apps. Using the Nokia Web Tools development environment, Andrew gives you a quick and informative look at how to develop web apps that can be localized for different languages on Series 40 phones, including the new Asha range.

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.’

Monetizing your Apps with In-App Advertising

The in-app advertising market is experiencing massive growth, with top publishers in Nokia Store generating monthly revenues of between 30,000 and 50,000 euros. This video provides you with a mobile advertising 101 to get you up to speed and then guides you through to the process you will follow to add in-app advertising to your apps. Using the right advertising solutions you can add in-app advertising to your Windows Phone, Symbian, and Java apps. With Nokia’s global reach and smart advertising solutions you have an unrivalled opportunity to monetize your apps.

Series 40 web apps technical how to: Animation

Andrew Knight, from the Nokia development team, shares technical tips on creating page animations for Series 40 web apps. Using the Nokia Web Tools development environment, Andrew provides a quick and informative look at implementing the options available to you when developing for Nokia Series 40 phones, including the new Asha range.

Twist Mobile: Innovation & Success with Nokia Developer

Indian developer Twist Mobile has built many apps for Nokia phones. CEO Virat Khutal and Technical Head Pramod Pandey talk about the support Nokia provides throughout the app lifecycle: From technical support — where according to Pramod local support is ‘ready to help us out in any way’ — through SDK and code examples to features for in-app advertising and distribution channels. ‘We used to be making 20 dollars a day, but now with the Nokia partnership we are making thousand dollars a day,’ says Virat.

Pikchur: Share pix & videos to all your social networks with one touch

The free Pikchur app enables you to send photos or videos from anywhere to everywhere, including syncing with all of your social networks. ‘We decided to use Qt because it allowed us to build once, and then export to several devices, so we didn't have to write the code for every individual device,’ says Peter Martinez, Founder at Pikchur. Aaron Benjamin from India’s Xoriant Solutions notes that the Qt component called ‘Qt Linguist’ enables the Pikchur app to support multiple languages, all from a single line of code.

National Geographic Photo Tips app powered by Qt. Featuring the new Nokia 808 PureView

The Qt-based National Geographic Photo Tips app provides a collection of the best advice and techniques from legendary photographers, so anyone can learn how to enhance their photo-taking ability. Aron Kohn, Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Business Development at National Geographic, talks about the new National Geographic Photo Tips app,which is available in Nokia Store. ‘We had one designer and one developer dedicated to this effort, and it only took six weeks to develop,’ says Kirk Ballou, CEO of Touch Titans who developed the app. See for yourself why the app makes a perfect companion for the new Nokia 808 PureView experience.

Discover something new in the Nokia Store

Nokia Store is the best way to find new and innovative content for your Nokia phone. Available in 190+ markets worldwide, and localised in 32 languages, the Nokia Store now has more than 13 million daily downloads. Nokia Store is simple to use and offers intuitive app discovery. When you use Nokia Store, you can pay for content directly from your mobile phone through operator billing using one of more than 134 operators in 48 markets. With thousands of free apps, along with premium and local favourites, you can find content in Nokia Store to play anywhere, get social, power your business - and try something new today.

Developing apps with Qt, featuring the Nokia 808 PureView

Executives from National Geographic, Pikchur, and 10tons discuss how easy it has been to use Qt in the development of their latest apps for Nokia's smartphones. Combining that ease of development, with Nokia's top-of-the-line hardware, global brand recognition, and distribution in more than 190 countries worldwide with Nokia Store, developers can reach more users, in more places, everyday. This video features the stunning new Nokia 808 PureView.

10tons: Developing award-winning games for Nokia with Qt

Developers 10tons combine technology, art, and storytelling to bring games to life. Their game ‘Sparkle’ won 250K€ in Nokia’s Calling All Innovators 2011 contest. They are now releasing two new games — Azkend 2 (a sequel to the popular Azkend) and Ironworm. Tero Alatalo and Sampo Töyssy discuss their work at 10tons creating games using Qt for Nokia's latest Symbian smartphones. ‘Game development is fun,’ Tero says. ‘Our biggest motivator is to make fun, easy-to-approach games that are high quality’.

Series 40 web apps technical how to: Geolocation and maps

In this how-to video, Andrew Knight from the Nokia development team shows you how to code a Series 40 web app to use geolocation services and maps. You will see how to create a project in the Nokia Web Tools, code the basic container for displaying a map, obtain latitude and longitude from the geolocation API, use that information to obtain a map image for Nokia Maps, and display it in your app. After watching this guide, you will be able to add rich map features to your web apps for Series 40 phones, such as those from the Asha range.

Introducing the Nokia SDK 1.1 for Java

In this video Mike Arvela, Lead Developer at Futurice, provides an overview to the features of the Nokia SDK 1.1 for Java. Mike describes how the SDK offers an emulator based on the Nokia Asha 303 and provides you with features to take full advantage of in-app purchasing in your apps. In addition to features for richer touch UIs, Mike also covers the new testing features offered by the SDK, such as the ability to set simulated battery level and previewing video in landscape mode.

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.

Pico Brothers: The road to 100 million downloads

The co-founders of Pico Brothers, Niklas Karlstrom and Kristian Engsjo, talk about all aspects of their apps business. The guys met while working at a telecoms company. Spurred on by the launch of Ovi Store (now Nokia Store) they took a bold leap into apps development, something that Kristian described as “exciting, and challenging, and a bit scary”. But it took them only a couple of months to get to grips with developing for mobile phones. They now create most of their apps using Qt, in anything from a few hours to a month. Having already passed to 80 million download milestone, they are looking forward to achieving 100 million downloads.

Spice Labs: Working and developing with Nokia

Prashant Singh, Senior Manager of Alliances at India's Spice Labs shares insights into working with Nokia. Spice Labs has 19 apps in Nokia Store for Symbian Qt-enabled smartphones, as well as Series 40 phones. Prashant says Qt "has been a big help for our app development processes, and reduced our time to market." He added that Qt gives them "the flexibility to cover a wide range of devices and platforms." Spice Labs puts a lot of effort into localizing their apps by language; and they work closely with Nokia to market their apps. Spice Labs has plans to develop for Nokia Lumia Windows Phones.

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.

AT&T Developer Summit Montage

Revisit all the action from the AT&T Developer Summit held during the International Consumer Electronics Show 2012 in Las Vegas, where developers competed in a Hackathon to create new apps for Nokia Lumia Windows Phones; heard keynotes from Nokia and Microsoft executives; and had the chance to party at the Playboy Club, where they got up-close and personal with the ... Nokia Lumia 900.

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.

Soundtracker: Powered by Java

Daniele Calabrese, founder and CEO of Soundtracker, discusses their multi-platform mobile music service. Daniele describes Soundtracker as the "first geo-social internet radio". It offers more than 11 million songs that consumers can play in real time with friends and broadcast via Facebook and Twitter. Building the app in Java, and making it work for more than fifty different Nokia phones, was "a little bit challenging for us," notes Calabrese, but "it was worth the time and effort as we now have an amazing reach." Soundtracker has been available for Windows Phone since the debut of the platform.

Download Soundtracker from Nokia Store

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.

Fillr: Powered by Qt

Co-founders and developers at Fill Apps, Cristian Loloiu and Adriana Marica talk about Fillr and Qt. Fillr is a puzzle game, which includes an online mode and offers users the ability to create game levels that can then be played by any other user worldwide. They also showcase the most recent version of the game, Fillr Winter Edition.
Cristian and Adriana started creating apps when they took part in a local Qt developer contest. They quickly fell in love the Qt SDK, because, as Cristian puts it, they can create killer apps in just a few hours. They particularly like QML and its rich features that enable sophisticated UIs to be created easily. Adriana is also impressed by its cross-platform capabilities, as she notes that moving a small app from Symbian to Nokia N9 can be done in a couple of hours. In ramping up their development effort, the support from Nokia, both through the Nokia Developer website and from the local Nokia team, has been invaluable in understanding the needs and requirements of both global and local markets.

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.

Liverpool FC Match and News Centre app: Built using Qt

Kathy Smith, Mobile Manager at Liverpool FC, talks about the club’s mobile match and news application. The app provides fans with club news, live text feeds from matches, wallpaper, videos, and other club content. The app was coded for the club by InfoMedia and Operations Manager Sanjay Mistry provides an insight into the use of Qt and the Qt SDK. He notes how Qt Quick made it easy to translate the UX designers vision into reality and how straightforward the Qt APIs are to use, singling out the APIs for video handling in particular. For Liverpool FC, Kathy notes that Nokia has been invaluable in providing advice and phones in the markets Liverpool FC needs to reach its fan base worldwide. The Liverpool FC app will be available soon in Nokia Store.

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.

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.

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.

lastminute.com: Powered by Qt

David Slocombe, Head of Mobile at lastminute.com, introduces the Hotels app for Qt-powered Symbian phones. After showcasing the app, David explains that users were having difficulty using the lastminute.com website on a mobile browser. By delivering the app using Qt they now offer a great mobile UX and have opened up new markets in the process. Matthew Gaunt, Developer at Future Platforms, then talks about using the Qt SDK. Among the many features of the technology Matthew praises, he notes that the Qt Mobility APIs enabled sophisticated mapping features to be added to the app with “relatively few lines of code”.

Qt Developer Days, Munich 2011 - It's a wrap!

Daniel Kihlberg, Director Qt Developer Experience at Nokia, and Lars Knoll, Chief Maintainer for the Qt Project, along with a number of attendees provide an overview of the Qt Developer Days event that was held in Munich in October 2011. The video showcases the event, the biggest Qt community event of the year, demonstrating the depth and breadth of Qt development activities. Daniel and Lars also touch on the future of Qt and the initiatives driving it forward, such as the Qt Project and Qt’s core role in Nokia’s strategy of bringing apps to the next billion.

Getting Started with Series 40 web apps

This getting started video provides you 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 and has been updated for Nokia Web Tools 1.5.

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.

Inneractive: Maximizing Monetization with Nokia

Assaf Benjamin, VP of Business Development at Inneractive, discusses the process of providing an in-app advertising engine to help generate revenue for developers. With Nokia, Inneractive has created an ecosystem of thousands of developers combined with the largest network of advertising agencies and networks worldwide. Since January 2011, Inneractive has seen an increase of application downloads on the Nokia Store, in some cases up to 40%. In addition, the click-through rates they are experiencing with these applications are upwards of 3%. Finally, 9 out of 10 games on the Nokia Store use Inneractive's in-app advertising SDK. These fantastic statistics combined with the continued Nokia support will provide additional ways for all developers around the world to capitalize on their application by increasing revenue in new, more efficient ways.

Joikusoft: Maximizing Monetization with Nokia

Tom Ojala, CEO at Joikusoft discusses the company's 'freemium' business model with Nokia. With this option, individuals can use the free application with no obligation to purchase the premium edition. However if they chose to upgrade and receive more functionality and features, they can do so directly through the free version. With the combination of this 'freemium' business model and application pre-loads on various Nokia devices, Joikusoft has been able to reach a global audience that continues to grow.

Offscreen: Maximizing Monetization with Nokia

Harri Myllynen, CEO at Offscreen talks about the company's success on Nokia Store coupled with their wide distribution on Windows Phone, Qt, and Series 40 platforms. Offscreen is the first developer company to date surpassing 80 million downloads in Nokia Store. Harri notes that 50X more downloads come from their free applications with in-app advertising rather than their paid applications; and they sees 5X more income from their free applications with in-app advertising than traditional paid applications.

eBuddy: Achieving Global Reach with Nokia

Jan Joost Rueb, CEO of eBuddy, talks about their latest application -- eBuddyXMS -- a free, real-time, messaging application available on all mobile platforms. eBuddy has been in the Nokia Store for two years now, and has received over 20 million downloads to date. With eBuddy's availability in 20+ languages across the globe, they have been able to promote with Nokia at both a global level as well as hyper-local level creating the largest possible user base. While working on Windows Phone, Qt and Series 40, eBuddy is ready to reach the next billion users around the world. eBuddy is excited for the opportunities that lie ahead while working closely with Nokia and Microsoft.

Powered by Qt: Global Edition

Developers from around the world talk about the opportunities and benefits they have discovered from developing Qt applications for Nokia smartphones. From Finland to the USA, China to the UK, the combination of powerful Qt APIs, access to phone features using Qt Mobility, the ease of use of the Qt SDK, and the phenomenal reach offered by Nokia Store are discussed by some of the world leading developers of mobile apps. Whether it’s for games or social networking apps, to taking advantage of leading edge technology — such as NFC — this video showcase the power of Qt.

echoecho: Powered by Qt

Nick Bicanic (Founder and CEO) and Andrew Wanliss-Orlebar (Founder and Head of Product) at echoecho demonstrate the echoecho app app and talk about development using Qt SDK.

echoecho is a global location sharing system that enables people to find their friends anywhere in the world, then chat or arrange to meet.

The company launched the app simultaneously on most major smartphone platforms. This gave Nick Bicanic a unique opportunity to compare development environments: Nick found Qt SDK to be a ‘breath of fresh air’ and easy to use, noting that a working version of the app was created in just two weeks. Of the Qt tools and technology, Nick pays particular attention to the maps capability offered through Qt Mobility. This enabled him to add a fully functioning map to echoecho with only a few lines of code.

NFC games by Nokia Research Center

Luis Sarmenta, a principal scientist at Nokia Research Center, demonstrates how NFC technology enables a whole new way to play games.

Rather than looking at a phone’s screen and pressing buttons, Nokia's new class of ‘tangible’ games lets players have fun in the real world — naturally — with physical objects, just as they would when playing traditional family and party games. These games can be played alone or with friends, anytime and anywhere, using any NFC tags the players already have. And the same tags can be used with any number of different games.

This video gives you a glimpse of a whole new world of possibilities that are available with Nokia's new Symbian Belle smartphones and NFC. You can try the games now at Nokia Beta Labs.

The new Nokia Store client: Powered by Qt

Nokia’s Bill Bonney, senior systems architect, and Ashwini Bharadwaj, senior software engineer, talk about the advantages of developing the new Nokia Store client using Qt and Qt Quick. From the simple installation of the Qt SDK, through its developer friendly UI and comprehensive API documentation to the power of Qt Quick and Qt signals and slots, Bill and Ashwini provide a compelling insight into the advantages of Qt-based development. The video also showcases the new store client and the rich UI the team created with Qt Quick.

Futurice: Powered by Qt

Michael Samarin, head of mobile development at Futurice, talks about the Nokia Trailers and Transformers 3 apps they developed using Qt and QML. Both apps were developed for Nokia's new Symbian smartphones, and focus on tightly integrating a clean and intuitive user experience. The apps are available for download from Nokia Store.

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.

Porting to Qt: Lola’s Fruit Shop Sudoku

In this video, Conor Lennon from Symbio talks about the experience of porting Lola’s Fruit Shop Sudoku. The project took this iOS game, from studio BeiZ, to Qt for Symbian phones and the Nokia N9 smartphone. Conor explains that the port took one developer four weeks to complete. He also highlights how Qt Quick was straightforward and easy to use, playing a major role in the success of this project.

LiveJournal: Powered by Qt, with 95% code reuse

Lina Udovenko — LiveJournal marketing director, SUP Media — talks about the capabilities of the LiveJournal app on the Nokia N9 smartphone. She is joined by Mikhail Nosov — principal software developer, Teleca — who explains that the app was first developed for Symbian then ported to the N9, with 95% of the code unchanged. Mikhail also discusses QML, noting it’s three times faster than using C++ to create a UI and offers more features, such as transitions. Lina concludes, noting that Nokia phones offer a great opportunity for LiveJournal to reach a mainstream audience.

Kaixin app for Nokia N9: Powered by Qt

Li Wenjing, product manager at Kaixin Mobile Division, talks about the mobile version of Kaixin for the Nokia N9 smartphone. Kaixin is a social networking service that enables users to share details of their daily lives along with photos and messages. Then, Zhang Xiaoyong, an engineer at Accenture, explains that the application took three developers about two months to create using Qt. He comments on the ease of use of the Qt SDK and notes that the same code will be used for a Symbian phone version of the app.

University of Applied Sciences Hagenberg – Developing for Nokia

In this video Bernhard Aufreiter — a student at the University of Applied Sciences in Hagenberg, Upper Austria — talks about the benefits of developing for Nokia phones. Bernhard has already published his eighth game in Ovi Store and surpassed the 1 million downloads milestone. Recently he started using Qt and has been impressed with the ease of use of Qt SDK and the power of the APIs; which have enabled him to create Glow Racer, a game that makes use of a phone’s accelerometer for game control. Download Bernhard’s apps from Ovi Store .

AA Breakdown and Traffic app: Powered by Qt

Jeff Triner, mobile development manager at the AA, and Douglas Hoskins, lead developer at Future Platforms, talk about the creation of the AA Breakdown and Traffic app. This Symbian app enables drivers to call for assistance when they breakdown, but also use on a daily basis to obtain up to the minute traffic information among other features. Douglas explains how Qt made it easy to create the app. In particular, the Qt Mobility APIs enabled Douglas to add feature such as tactile feedback and GPS location to the AA app easily.

AccuWeather: Powered by Qt

Mark Long, senior software developer at AccuWeather, Inc., talks about the creation of the AccuWeather application. Mark explains the advantages he found in creating the application using Qt Quick — in particular the speed at which he could create the app's UI — and how the technology has enabled him and his team to focus on their app’s user experience.

Sina Weibo: Powered by Qt

Ding Chen, product manager at Sina; GaoFei Wang, vice president at Sina; and Allen Chan, senior engineer at Accenture, talk about the new version of Sina’s Weibo application. This popular social network and media app has been designed for the Nokia N9 smartphone and built in Qt. When it came to the development, Allen explains that the app took four developers about two months to create, a process aided by the Qt Quick components.

The CNN app for Nokia: Powered by Qt

Louis Gump, VP CNN Mobile at CNN, talks about the creation of the CNN app for Nokia phones. This app provides for not only headlines with in depth reports, but video content as well as enabling its users to provide news updates through CNN iReport.
Development was undertaken with Qt SDK and Louis explains how it provides for quick, flexible, collaborative development that enables an iterative process that results in “yes, we got it” outcomes.

Developing with Qt: Smart Installer

Nokia Smart Installer for Symbian is a deployment solution that ensures that installed 3rd party applications always have access to the required versions of their dependent libraries. Lucian Tomuta talks how to utilise the Smart Installer in the Qt application.

Read more: http://www.forum.nokia.com/Develop/Qt/ and about the Smart Installer here: http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/Nokia_Smart_Installer_for_Symbian.

Qt SDK v1.1: Developing with Qt Creator

Lauri Jääskelä from Forum Nokia gives you a kick-start with Qt SDK v1.1 and Qt Quick. Read more: http://www.forum.nokia.com/Develop/Qt/

Creating 90elf with the Qt SDK 1.1

Alexander Kluwe, UI designer and project manager at Futurice, talks about the development of 90elf using the Qt SDK 1.1. 90elf is an application that enables users to listen to live commentaries on German football matches. The application took Alexander and a Qt developer 30 days only to create.

Creating Flowd with the Qt SDK 1.1

Wilhelm Taht, marketing director, and Juha Turunen, senior software specialist, of Digia talk about the development of Flowd using the Qt SDK 1.1. Flowd is a location aware application that enables a social network for music lovers. The development took Juha about six weeks only, which included learning how to use Qt Quick from scratch.

What’s new in the Qt SDK 1.1

Christian D. Kamm, software engineer at Qt Development Frameworks, Nokia, introduces the new features delivered in the Qt SDK 1.1. Christian discusses the capabilities of Qt Quick and the Qt Mobility APIs. In addition, developers from Digia and Futurice talk about their experiences using the Qt SDK 1.1.

WIMA 2011: NFC technology opportunities

Mark Selby, VP sales and industry collaboration, and Evren Kozcu, NFC implementation manager, from Nokia along with developers from Proxama, Digia, NOW! Innovations, iMPak Health, and Poken talk about the possibilities offered by NFC technology on Nokia devices. The video was recorded at WIMA 2011 in Monaco.

Poken: NFC technology using Qt

Stephane Doutriaux, founder and CEO, and Scott Tavelli, software engineering project manager, at Poken talk about the NFC enabled Poken application. Poken enables users to make use of NFC technology by transferring social business cards and reading NFC tags embedded in a variety of objects, from posters to menus. Scott discusses also how using Qt made it easy for a small team to create the mobile application in just a few weeks.

Poynt: Nokia Developer Interview with Bart McCormick

Bart McCormick, VP of business development at Poynt, talks about the new Poynt application. Poynt is an easy-to-use, all-in-one tool to connect users who are on the go with local businesses, retailers, and events.

In this interview, Bart discusses how the application was created in Qt with the support of Forum Nokia, helping him and his team to take Poynt from concept to publication in Ovi Store.

BLStream: Nokia Developer Interview with Anton Gauffin

Anton Gauffin, president of BLStream, talks about the new application for Nokia devices, ShutterPro. This application extends the functionality of the camera built into Nokia smartphones, with features such as extended digital zoom and photo filters. In this interview, Anton explains how Forum Nokia has been supporting him and his team, as well as discussing the success the company has had through Ovi Store.

Slacker: Nokia Developer Interview with Steve Cotter

Steve Cotter, SVP of sales at Slacker, talks about the new application for Nokia devices, Slacker Radio, which enables users to listen to free personalised radio on their Nokia smartphones.

The award-winning Slacker Radio application gives users access to the entire Slacker music library, which features millions of songs from thousands of artists. In addition to music, users can access news and sports information. In this interview, Steve discusses how Slacker used Qt to create the application and how Forum Nokia supported him and his team during development as well as marketing the app in Ovi Store.

OTTER: Nokia Developer Interview with Erik Wood

Erik Wood, CEO and founder of Seattle-based OTTER, talks about the new application for Nokia devices, One Touch Text Response (OTTER). The concept for this mobile app was born after a dramatic near miss the founder's three-year-old daughter had with a driver who was pre-occupied with texting.

Erik talks about the support he has received from Forum Nokia and how it has brought OTTER to the next level.

LiveCast: Nokia Developer Interview with Scott Hill

Scott Hill, EVP at LiveCast, talks about the forthcoming application for Nokia devices, LiveCast Duetto. LiveCast Duetto is a hybrid between live two-way video conferencing and traditional video streaming for mobile phones. Live streams can be viewed by authorised users on mobile phones or computers. In this interview, Scott talks about the technical and marketing support provided by Forum Nokia.

Series 40 web apps: Hungama

Manish Malik, general manager, and Noaman Kazi, product manager, of Hungama Digital Media Entertainment Pvt. Ltd, talk about the opportunities created by Series 40 web apps and Nokia Web Tools. Bollywood Hungama has created a web app that enables mobile users to keep up-to-date with the latest Bollywood film and star news.

Getting Started with Symbian 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 Symbian WRT widget. This video complements the getting started guide document available from Web Developer Channel.

Series 40 web apps: Introduction

Houman Forood, senior product marketing manager at Nokia, provides an overview to Series 40 web apps. Representatives from Hungama Digital Media Entertainment Pvt. Ltd, PT. Kompas Cyber Media, KapanLagi.com, Sina Wireless, and Xoriant Solutions Ltd provide feedback on their experiences with Ovi Browser, Series 40 web apps and Nokia Web Tools.

Series 40 web apps: KapanLagi.com

Arthur Surya, director of KapanLagi.com, talks about the opportunities created by Series 40 web apps and Nokia Web Tools. KapanLagi.com has delivered a web app that enables mobile users to access the entertainment news content of the KapanLagi.com website.

Series 40 web apps: Kompas Cyber Media

Edi Taslim, business general manager, and Roy Nainggaolan, mobile systems and development, of PT. Kompas Cyber Media talk about the opportunities created by Series 40 web apps and Nokia Web Tools. Kompas has delivered a web app that enables mobile users to access the news content of the Kompas.com website.

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.

Series 40 web apps: Xoriant

Girish Gaitonde, CEO and founder, and Aaron Benjamin, senior product manager, of Xoriant Solutions Ltd, talk about the opportunities created by Series 40 web apps and Nokia Web Tools. Xoriant has created a web app that enables mobile users to access the content of Wikipedia.

Fruit Ninja

Fruit Ninja is a juicy action game with squishy, splatty and satisfying fruit carnage! Become the ultimate bringer of sweet, tasty destruction with every slash. Swipe up across the screen to deliciously slash fruit like a true ninja warrior. With three games modes in single player the addictive game play will keep you coming back for even higher scores.

Learn more about Halfbrick:
http://www.halfbrick.com/

Nokia Developer Day at MWC 2011

This video, introduced by Srikanth Raju director, head of marketing at Forum Nokia, provides an overview of the activities at the Nokia Developer Day held during MWC 2011 in Barcelona. A number of developers share their thoughts on the benefits of the event also.

Mobile Senegal at MWC 2011

Christelle Scharff, an associate professor at Pace University in New York, talks about the Mobile Senegal project she has been running for the past two years. The project creates apps to address the needs of business owners and consumers in Senegal with support from Nokia.

HeroCraft at MWC 2011

Alexey Sazonov sales and marketing director at HeroCraft talks about the company’s latest game Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom a strategy game developed in Java technology. Alexey talks also about how the responsive support from Nokia has assisted HeroCraft.

Entupalma at MWC 2011

Maximiliano Firtman, director of Entupalma, talks about creating the Ole app for one of Argentina’s leading news and sport sites using web technology. Maximiliano discusses also the success he has achieved in distributing his apps through Ovi store and the support benefits of the Forum Nokia community.

Mobilizy at MWC 2011

Martin Lechner, chief technical officer at Mobilizy, talks about the augmented reality Wikitude World Browser app. Martin discusses also how using Qt to create Wikitude has been a benefit, along with the reach they have achieved through Ovi store.

SPB Software at MWC 2011

Fedor Ezhov, senior director at SPB Software, talks about SPB Mobile Shell a UI engine the company has developed for Symbian. Fedor discusses also the benefits of the company’s Forum Nokia PRO membership and how the involvement of their Nokia business manager has helped the company’s development effort.

Snaptu at MWC 2011

Simon Davies, director at Snaptu, talks about the Snaptu app, which provides users with access to a range of social networking and media sites. Simon discusses also how Nokia technology has enabled Snaptu to be delivered on a range of platforms, offering the ability to access emerging as well as developed markets.

Getting Started with the Series 40 On-Device Debugger

This video shows the process of installing and configuring the Series 40 On-Device Debugger for use with the NetBeans IDE. This video complements the user guide, which focuses on the setup process when using the Eclipse IDE.

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.

Introduction to Qt Quick

In this video Nigel Hietala provides developers and designers with an introduction to the features and capabilities of Qt Quick. Nigel explains how Qt Quick makes it easy to create dynamic, interactive UIs quickly.

Part 1: Qt Quick Elements

In this video Nigel Hietala describes how QML Elements are used. Nigel creates a new Qt Quick based application project using Qt SDK, shows how a basic UI is built using elements and is previewed in the Qt Quick viewer.

Part 2: Qt Quick Components

In this video Nigel Hietala describes how QML Components are created and used. Nigel shows how a reusable Qt Quick component is created by defining a separate QML file. Then by using properties shows how the component can be abstracted and through use of mouse areas made interactive.

Part 3: Qt Quick States and Transitions

In this video Nigel Hietala describes how to use the States and Transitions of Qt Quick. Nigel creates a simple application using a state to control the visibility of an image when a button is clicked. He then adds a transition to make the way in which the image is hidden and shown visually dynamic.

Qt Quick Twitter Client

In this video Nigel Hietala demonstrates a Twitter client app created in Qt Quick. This provides an insight into how the features of Qt Quick can be used to create visually rich and enticing applications.

What's New With Forum Nokia Projects

Information about File sharing and Discussion improvements integrated in Forum Nokia Projects in October 2010. For more on this subject, see the Forum Nokia Projects homepage.

Luis Valente interview

In this Forum Nokia developer interview Luis Valente, a PhD student at PUC-Rio (Brazil) and Forum Nokia Champion, talks about the creation of Audio Flashlight. This game is designed for the visually impaired and makes use of the QBluetooth library in the creation of a multiplayer version of this Qt game.

i2tecnologia interview

In this Forum Nokia developer interview, Forum Nokia Champion Felipe Andrade of i2tecnologia talks about creating Mobiestro using Qt. Mobiestro enables users to control web based games from their Nokia device. Felipe also discusses the new Forum Nokia website and the success i2tecnologia is achieving on Ovi Store.

Thomas Perl - Tricks and Tips

Thomas Perl, Forum Nokia Champion, shares some tips and tricks that will be of interest, in particular, to games developers working with Qt. The first tip shows how to improve the performance of Qt widgets by using Open GL, the second tip shows how to split up texture maps while bundling them with in an executable.

Shazam Testimonial

Shazam has explored taking its music discovery application cross-platform with the Nokia Qt SDK. Offering music recognition from a database of over 8 million tracks, Shazam users can find out more about music they are hearing, buy the track, and share their discovery with friends and family.

Accuweather Testimonial

AccuWeather, Inc. is using the Nokia Qt SDK to take the development of their applications rapidly through all phases of creation. The speed of the compile-deploy-test-evaluate cycle impresses AccuWeather and with integrated on-device debugging the company finds the Nokia Qt SDK 'a breeze to use'. AccuWeather is creating AccuWeather.com for the Nokia N900 mobile computer so users can obtain accurate global weather information.

Wikitude Testimonial

WIKITUDE is an Augmented Reality platform which allows you to browse the current location and helps you discover information about places and points of interest. It brilliantly uses the device camera, GPS and compass. Watch this video to see their experience and reaction to Qt and the new Nokia Qt SDK.

Offscreen

Offscreen produces over 50 unique apps for Symbian Touch devices such as 5800 MusicXpress and N97 Mini. They produce apps ranging from games to productivity, to ebooks. Watch this video to see their experience and reaction to Qt and the new Nokia Qt SDK.

Rovio Testimonial

Rovio has experienced running its games on Symbian and Maemo devices by using Nokia Qt SDK. These games include Bounce, a game offering rich 3D graphics controlled by a device’s accelerometer and Angry Birds, a casual, puzzle-style game with engaging demolition physics. Rovio has ported Angry Birds and Bounce Evolution to Qt using the Nokia Qt SDK. In Angry Birds players exact revenge on the green pigs who have stolen eggs from the Angry Birds. With challenging physics-based castle demolition, Angry Birds offers hours of game playing and a high replay value.

Speed Hero

Speedhero is built for speed shooting - whether it's your penalty kick, tennis smash, drive, spike, hit or shot. It's incredibly accurate and incredibly fun. Watch this video to see their experience and reaction to Qt and the new Nokia Qt SDK.

GreenPlate

Miro Beran, an Android developer, talks about developing apps for Nokia devices with Qt. Miro shares his impressions of Qt SDK and Qt Creator and explains why he's now developing apps using Qt.

Xoriant

Girish Gaitonde, CEO at Xoriant, talks about developing apps with Qt. Girish discusses how Forum Nokia has supported his company's efforts in developing for and porting its apps to Nokia devices using Qt.

GameLion

Anton Gauffin, CEO of BLStream talks with us about developing apps for Nokia devices with Qt in Mountain View, CA. Anton talks about the success he's seen on Ovi Store with their Crazy Hamster game, developing with Qt and considerations for localizing apps and games.

Learn more about BLStream & Gamelion:
http://www.blstream.com/
http://www.game-lion.com/

Forum Nokia User Experience Offering

Have a quick look at what mobile app user experience is all about and what Forum Nokia can offer you to aid your application development. For more on this subject, see Forum Nokia's Design section.

Qt WebKit Cartoon Reader

In this video chief engineer Lucian Tomuta shows this free example application, how it's coded, and how to combine native code with web technologies like HTML and JavaScript. For more on this subject, see the Cartoon Reader Projects homepage.

Pixelpipe interview

Pixelpipe is a media aggregation service that enables users to post media to multiple websites, directly from their phone. In this interview Brett Butterfield, CEO and founder of Pixelpipe, talks about the creation of QuickPost using Qt. Brett also discusses his experiences working with Nokia, Forum Nokia, and the Ovi Store.

Shazam interview

Shazam is a service that enables users to discover, buy, and share a song the instant they hear it playing, anywhere. In this interview Iain Dendle, senior business development manager at Shazam, discusses the company's experiences working with the Nokia Qt SDK and its cross-platform capabilities. In addition, Iain also provides insight into working with Nokia, Forum Nokia, and the Ovi Store.

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.

Qt Quick Playground

This example application demonstrates the power of Qt Quick when creating user interfaces on mobile devices. The application includes six different demos with various animation effects and a possibility to edit the soure code on-the-fly. For more on this subject, see the Qt Quick Playground Projects page.

Qt with the Nokia N900 and Nokia Qt SDK

In this video Ville Vainio, chief engineer at Nokia, shows how to convert a desktop application, in this case a Reddit reader, to run on the Nokia N900 device. After providing a brief introduction to the desktop version, Ville demonstrates how the app can be tailored to the Nokia N900 by adjusting the behaviour of windows, adding a back button and busy indicator, and setting the app to switch orientation as the device is rotated.
This video is a great introduction to the Nokia Qt SDK for Linux developers.

Simple Symbian Development: Nokia Qt SDK

In this video Lucian Tomuta, chief engineer at Nokia, show how easy it is to start creating mobile Qt apps for Symbian devices using Nokia Qt SDK. Lucian demonstrates how Nokia Qt SDK is installed and creates a project from the Qt calculator example. After running the app in the Qt Simulator, Lucian adapts the app to a mobile device by adjusting the layout and screen use. The optimised app is then run on a Nokia N8 device.
This video is a great introduction to the Nokia Qt SDK for Symbian developers.

Introducing Flowella video

In this video Tim Brooke, Senior Design Specialist at Nokia, explains why Flowella was created, provides an overview of its features, and outlines what to expect in future versions of Flowella.

Conceptual Design in 2 Minutes Video

This video provides a short introduction to brainstorming, sketching, and the conceptual-design process.

UX Meets Code: Liqbase Calendar Video

Gary Birkett discusses his Maemo application LiqCalendar. Sanna Nordling walks through the improvements that can be done to it that can increase user experience.

UX Meets Code: MaStory Video

Daniel Martin Yerga introduces his application MaStory, and how collaborating with UX specialists has helped him to make the iconography and user experience of his navigation application easier to use. Annu-Maaria Nivala provides the UX perspective.

UX Meets Code: Mapper Video

Alberto Mardegan and Javier de San Pedro discuss how the Mapper application for N900 functions, and how it can benefit from simplification of the user interface.

UX Meets Code: Video Editor Video

Zaher Merali discusses what he's learned about concepting, and how it can be applied to his soon-to-be created application for the N900, Video Editor. We also see Patricia Montenegro's designs for the app and Alia Merali's opinions.

UX Meets Code: Xournal Video

Aniello del Sorbo discusses the desktop-to-mobile design improvements that he discovered for his notation application that allows people to open and share PDFs. Kirsi Rönkkö offers a few words about the interaction design challenges that are faced when porting applications from one platform to Maemo's N900.

UX Meets Code: gPodder Video

Thomas Perl and Tuomas Kuosmanen collaborate on improving the user experience of gPodder, an application for the N900 that enables users to download podcasts or stream audio and video.