28 September 2011Final version of Windows Phone SDK 7.1 available now

Nokia Developer Porting section: New opportunities for your apps

Nokia Store: Highest number of average downloads per app

Qt on the Nokia N9: Over a dozen demo apps

Microsoft business apps coming to Nokia Symbian Belle smartphones

Mobile Web Components power up HTML5 web apps and sites

Last chance for Qt Developer Days discount

Qt Project to go live in time for Qt Developer Days

Nokia Store ranks top markets, devices

Success case: NetQin delivers confidence, control to the millions

Final version of Windows Phone SDK 7.1 available now

Microsoft has just released the final version of the Windows Phone SDK 7.1. If you have been thinking about getting started building apps for Windows Phone, now is the time to download and use the Windows Phone SDK. Enhancements to Windows Phone SDK 7.1 include tooling to develop apps localised in nine languages -- Chinese (Traditional), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Spanish – and finishing touches across the tooling components.

In addition, Windows Marketplace has added 19 countries where developers can distribute and sell their Windows Phone apps, bringing the total to 35 countries. A browser-based version of Windows Marketplace now offers consumers greater discoverability of apps, and it gives developers greater reach and new opportunities for publishing their content.

Learn more about Windows Phone SDK 7.1.

Avoid the top QA failures – new document shows how

Calling All Innovators grand prize winners announced

Champion of the Month: Kiran Patel

Qt Developer Days 2011

Registration is now open for the year’s biggest Qt event.

Munich: 24-26 October San Francisco: 29 November – 1 December

View the agenda, register to attend.

Nokia Developer Porting section: New opportunities for your apps

Nokia Developer has launched a new section on the site to help Android and iOS developers take advantage of the growing momentum behind Nokia Store. As the constantly growing download rate demonstrates, owners of Nokia smartphones have a huge appetite for apps.

Apps for Nokia smartphones are created using Qt, a rich, cross-platform environment that delivers efficient and intuitive APIs and a fully integrated set of tools for all aspects of app development. But if you have an Android or iOS app, where do you start? This is where the new Nokia Developer Porting section can help. It provides an overview, documentation, code examples, and videos to help developers port their apps from Android and iOS to Qt, and from Qt to Windows Phone.

Explore Nokia Developer�s new porting section.

Nokia Store: Highest number of average downloads per app

Apps on Nokia Store had 2.5 times more downloads in the second quarter of 2011 than did apps on Apple’s App Store, according to research2guidance, a Berlin-based mobile research firm. In fact, the average Symbian app is downloaded from Nokia Store 160 per cent more times per day than is the average iOS app, the firm adds.

For developers and their content, this means it is easy to get noticed in Nokia Store, and to have your content seen by a global audience that is eager to download compelling mobile apps. It also confirms that Nokia’s promotional tools are working, driving downloads to more than 9 million a day.

Learn more about the findings from research2guidance.

Nokia World 2011

Capture the next billion opportunity!

London: 26-27 October.

Check out the agenda & register to attend.

Nokia Windows Phone training

October dates have been announced for Berlin and London. Silicon Valley dates are coming soon.

Learn more and register for Nokia Windows Phone training.

Qt on the Nokia N9: Over a dozen demo apps

The Nokia N9, based on the MeeGo developer platform and Qt development framework, has begun shipping to customers and stores around the world. To help developers create great apps for the Nokia N9, Nokia Developer Projects recently published 14 demo apps, including full source code. The demo apps include:

Compass, a Nokia Developer example application that teaches the use of a traditional compass and allows the user to determine the bearing to the desired location using Ovi maps. The main purpose of the example application is to demonstrate the use of the Maps and Navigation API.

Guitar Tuner, a Qt Quick example application that demonstrates the integration of Qt audio interfaces. The application can be used to tune guitar strings by analysing the audio recorded by the device microphone.

Qt Bubble Level, an application that demonstrates how to use Qt Quick with the accelerometer sensor that is part of Qt Mobility.

Microsoft business apps coming to Nokia Symbian Belle smartphones

Nokia recently announced that updates to its Symbian Belle smartphones will deliver a suite of Microsoft productivity applications and supplement security and manageability features. The free updates, called Microsoft Apps, will require no additional infrastructure. The first updates will appear by the end of this year, with broad consumer availability arriving in early 2012.

Microsoft Apps will bring collaboration and productivity tools that include: Microsoft Lync 2010 Mobile; Microsoft OneNote; Microsoft PowerPoint Broadcast; and Microsoft Document Connection, which provides Microsoft SharePoint access. In addition, an update in the first half of 2012 will introduce Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint as native applications for the first time outside the Windows platform.

Learn more about Microsoft updates for Nokia�s Symbian Belle smartphones.

Mobile Web Components power up HTML5 web apps and sites

Nokia has created a set of components to use in mobile websites and HTML5 web apps targeted at Symbian Anna phones, the Nokia N9 smartphone, and other Nokia smartphones with a WebKit browser. Included are components for collapsible content blocks, scrollable large content item windows, pop-up menus, expandable sliding menus, slideshows, and others. The components are designed to be used either as-is or extended for your own unique content and look.

Web components are built using the basic building blocks of the web: HTML for structured data, CSS for visual rendering, and JavaScript for behaviour. They are popular with web designers, as they deliver frequently used functions in ready-made, ready-to-add packages, with all structures and behaviours tested and working. Also, components can be easily customised by either using built-in options or editing the component itself.

Rev up your website with HTML5 -- download the Mobile Web Components.

Last chance for Qt Developer Days discount

Now in its eighth year, Qt Developer Days 2011 will be held 24 – 26 October in Munich and 29 November – 1 December in San Francisco. The conference has doubled in size over the past two years, and even more growth is expected this year. So act now and secure your place at Qt Developer Days. To save 30 per cent on the conference fee, register before midnight (CET) on Thursday, 29 September, to take advantage of the Early Bird discount.

Qt Developer Days is the best place to learn, share, and build your Qt expertise and develop relationships with other members of the Qt community. Dedicated Qt mobile training will help developers and UI designers gain the skills they need to harness both the large Qt for mobile opportunity today and the future opportunity offered by the Nokia ‘Qt for the next billion’ strategy.

Qt Developer Days 2011: View the agenda, learn more, and register.

Qt Project to go live in time for Qt Developer Days

The Qt Project, the outcome of the open governance work, will go live on 17 October, a week before Qt Developer Days in Munich. The Qt governance, roadmap and releases will be driven openly by the Qt Project, open to all the stakeholders willing to contribute. It will have an open governance model based on equal access to all discussions and tools, an open contribution process, and meritocratic assignment of roles. Overall, the changes in the governance model will make it easier for more stakeholders to participate in the evolution of Qt.

Read more about the Qt Project on the Qt blog.

Nokia Store ranks top markets, devices

The top 15 markets for downloads from Nokia Store are, in alphabetical order: Brazil, China, Egypt, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Pakistan, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, and Vietnam. A new listing also details the top Nokia Store devices by country.

Check out the Nokia Store top markets list.

Success case: NetQin delivers confidence, control to the millions

NetQin Mobile Inc., a company that has delivered mobile security solutions since 2005, is finding success on Nokia Store. NetQin's anti-virus and security apps have reached more than 3 million downloads in Nokia Store across more than 190 markets. In fact, Beijing-based NetQin now holds over 67% of the Chinese mobile security market share and manages a user base of more than 73 million worldwide. The company's efforts to secure mobile phones have garnered widespread recognition, including being named a 2011 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum.

Explore NetQin�s Nokia Store success.

Avoid the top QA failures – new document shows how

Quality assurance (QA) is vital to your mobile apps and content. A new Nokia document, ‘Avoid the top 10 QA failures’, can help you assure the quality of your QA. According to this document, these are the top 10 reasons why content uploaded to Ovi Store fails Nokia’s QA testing:

1. The selected language and country distribution do not match. 2. The content does not display correctly when it changes orientation from portrait to landscape. 3. The Symbian package file specifies the incorrect OS. 4. The content does not prompt for an installation drive. 5. The flow diagram submitted with a Java app is inaccurate. 6. The content does not use the full screen. 7. The Java app does not include About, Help, or Exit options. 8. The MIDlet-Name parameter in the .jad file uses non-alphanumeric characters (Series 40 phones only). 9. When the content is suspended in background, the content sound is not disabled. 10. The touchscreen keypad is not disabled by default (S60 phones only).

To learn how to avoid these QA failures, download the Nokia document, �Avoid the top 10 QA failures�.

Calling All Innovators grand prize winners announced

The grand prize winners of the Calling All Innovators competition for developers have been announced by Nokia. The two grand prize winners are: Sparkle by 10tons and ShutterPro Premium by BLSTream. The grand prize runners-up are Poynt by Poynt Corp. and Tank Hero by Clapfoot Games.

The Calling All Innovators competition called on developers globally to compete for a pool of cash and prizes valued at $10 million (USD). Over 800 entries were received from developers in 57 countries. A majority of the apps were created using Nokia's Qt mobile development platform. The category top winners each receive $150,000 (USD), with the two grand prizes winners receiving an additional $100,000 (USD) and a marketing promotion package valued at $1.9 million (USD).

See all the Calling All Innovators winners.

Champion of the Month: Kiran Patel

Many members of the Nokia Developer community owe the success of their projects to Champion of the Month Kiran Patel. Known as kiran10182 to the community, he has posted more than 7800 items to the discussion boards, contributed over 3100 edits to the wiki, and served as a top Nokia Developer Wiki Administrator, Nokia Developer Discussion boards Moderator, Nokia Developer Groups Administrator and Nokia Developer Community Page Administrator. He has been a Nokia Developer Champion since 2006, and during his tenure he has amassed numerous awards for his expertise and contributions.

Meet Champion of the month Kiran Patel.

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