Just over a month ago, we held Nokia Developer Days, a two-day event for developers writing applications for Nokia platforms (Windows Phone, Series 40, Symbian ^ 3) and using Nokia products to write their own applications (for example, Nokia Maps). Today we publish videos of all performances from this event. For convenience, under each video, we have duplicated relevant presentations.
Opening remarks by Sergey Rudenko, Nokia
Sergey Rudenko, head of Nokia’s developer interaction, opened the event with his introductory report, in which he shared his company's development plans, as well as developer incentive programs, without which this development would not work. Interesting fact: Sergey showed his presentation with Nokia Lumia 800. ')
Opening Speech by Mikhail Chernomordikov, Microsoft
The second was Mikhail Chernomordikov, head of strategic technology experts from Microsoft. In his speech, he continued the speech of Sergei Rudenko, but from the point of view of Microsoft. Michael shared the current growth rate of the Windows Phone 7 platform, and also spoke about the innovations that Windows Phone 8 will bring to us.
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Nokia Developer Features
The third report was devoted to the capabilities of Nokia developers. Nares Choukhan, Head of Strategic Marketing for Nokia Developers, spoke about the development prospects for Nokia Asha (Series 40) and Windows Phone. And so that all his words would be believed - he confirmed his words with very beautiful graphs and numbers. Attention, report in English.
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Monetization and promotion of applications for Windows Phone
On the monetization of applications told Michael Chernomordikov from Microsoft. He began his speech from afar, sharing data about average users and their preferences - however, this is extremely important information that should be kept in mind when developing applications. After that, Mikhail told about various tricks and tools for monetization of applications, as well as about the main channels of application promotion - including Nokia and Microsoft channels, which Sergey Rudenko spoke in a little bit in his opening speech.
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Monetization and built-in billing
Inneractive customer service manager at Orly Cēsis told about the monetization of free applications and embedded application billing in the Nokia Store (as well as the Marketplace, Google Play, App Store, etc.) using the developments of the company in which it works.
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Best partner projects
In the report “The Best Partnership Projects” Sergey Lutai, Head of Mobile Applications Development Department at Digital Cloud Technologies, shared his experience of changing the company's business direction from developing web projects towards creating mobile applications, and also told about the development and monetization of applications after their publication in Windows Phone Marketplace - these tips from experienced developers will be useful to many novice developers under Windows Phone.
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Geo-location services
Sergey Rudenko finished the first day of the Nokia Developer Days conference with his report on geolocation services. In his speech, Sergey spoke about the current state of Nokia cards (coverage of 200 countries, 1.5 million cities and 25 million streets) and shared plans for the development of maps and impressive capabilities that application developers will get under Windows Phone 8. Sergey told about traffic jam calculation methodology and technologies for creating Nokia maps, the Nokia Maps API and the use of maps in web projects (Maps API for JS) and on various platforms used in Nokia smartphones - from Nokia Asha (Maps API for Java ME) to Nokia Belle (Qt Maps API).
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Design applications for Windows Phone
The first report of the second day was devoted to the design of applications for Windows Phone. Konstantin Kichinsky, an expert on software development technologies at Microsoft, shared the basic principles of the Metro interface, which cannot be neglected if you want to achieve a visually pleasing and easy-to-use application on Windows Phone. The speaker along the way shared successful and unsuccessful case studies of applications available in the Marketplace.
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Nokia Asha Touch
A report by Nokia Asha Touch was told by Alexander Trufanov, Nokia’s development manager. As it is easy to understand from the title, the presentation was devoted to the new Nokia smartphone on the Series 40 platform, its huge capabilities for a simple phone, as well as the prospects of developing applications for this platform.
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Application Development for Windows Phone
The principles of developing applications for Windows Phone was shared by Stas Pavlov, an expert in software development technologies from Microsoft. In his report, the speaker spoke about the device applications for Windows Phone, about the types of these applications, development tools and the creation of applications. A very interesting presentation, mandatory for viewing by any application developer looking towards Windows Phone.
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Built-in billing
Alexander Trufanov told about built-in billing on the Nokia Series 40 platform. How billing works on this platform, what payment methods exist and what is better to use - you will find the answers to all these questions after watching this presentation.
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Using the capabilities of the Windows Phone platform
The final Nokia Developer Days report by Stas Pavlov was devoted to using various features of the Windows Phone platform. Perhaps viewing this very deep and detailed presentation is the easiest and most interesting way to understand how Windows Phone applications work and how they work, as well as what platform integration capabilities an application developer can use.
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We hope that the Nokia Developer Days conference was useful for you and gave answers to your questions. Develop applications for the Nokia platform, and in a year we will meet again and maybe you will be standing on the stage sharing your cases.