Nokia's Mobile Mashup Developer Center

This special sponsored section of ProgrammableWeb brings you a variety of useful resources for developing great mobile mashups: code, how-to guides, example apps, videos, presentations and featured stories.

Join us at the Nokia Developer Summit 2010

London, 14-15 September

Discover how easy it is to develop for Nokia platforms, make your content available in Ovi and to the world's largest market of mobile device users. Experience practical technical and business sessions, hands-on coding labs, live demos, and valuable networking opportunities. Attend the Calling All Innovators Award Ceremony in person to be the first to know who the lucky winners of cash prizes of up to $50,000 (USD) will be. Register now.

Where to start?

Where to start? Head on over to see the Web Developer's Library at Forum Nokia. This gets you everything you need including guides on getting started, implementation and API-level resources.

Featured Video: Web Runtime Widgets

Learn what Web Runtime Widgets are in less than 3 minutes. Petro Soininen, Nokia's chief engineer of Web Technologies, speaks to James Etheridge about widgets, how they work and what they can do. (See it also on YouTube).

Tools for Mobile Web Developers

For Web Runtime (WRT) widget developers, Nokia offers free plug-ins and extensions for Aptana Studio, Aptana Studio Pro, Adobe Dreamweaver, and Microsoft Visual Studio that speed the creation, testing, packaging, and deployment of WRT widgets. And the Nokia Platform Services 2.0 beta JavaScript API offers a simple way to access device data and features.

Guarana UI - jQuery Web Runtime UI

The Guarana UI Library is a jQuery-based set of customisable UI elements, application frameworks, and templates that can be used for the creation of user interfaces in Nokia's Web Runtime platform.
Learn more here and get the source.

Web Runtime APIBridge

Nokia has released an APIBridge component for Web Runtime Widget (WRT) developers. This component was once internal and only available to select Nokia partners (e.g. facebook, netflix, project). This bridge component enables developers to extend the features of WRT by using various capabilities of Symbian OS. Check out the APIBridge here.

Featured Tutorial: How to create a Web Runtime Stock Widget using Webservices

This tutorial will show you how to create a widget using a third party external web service like those on ProgrammableWeb. Using standard JavaScript we are going to fetch Stock Symbol information from a Web service and display it on the screen in a mobile device.

Featured Sample App: Weather on Nokia

Get the latest weather on the go compliments of this Nokia mobile WRT app that brings you weather directly from AccuWeather.
Get it here with source.

Latest News: Forum Nokia Web Talks

Latest Videos from Forum Nokia on YouTube

	Space Blok Game for Windows Phone & Qt Space Blok is a funny 1-4 player block structure breaking game ported from Windows Phone to Qt mobile devices and desktop as well. This game is a FREE example app done by Nokia. The game is implemented with Qt3D and Qt Quick and it utilizes an open source physics engine, Bullet Physics Library, to provide 3D simulation and realistic collision handling for the game objects. The audio framework used in this example 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. This example is hosted in a Nokia Developer Projects, projects.developer.nokia.com , where you can find implementation and porting notes, discover recent revisions, and contribute to the project. For more Nokia Developer example apps, check www.developer.nokia.com	From: nokiadevforum Views: 2301 17 ratings
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	Series 40 web apps technical how to: Geolocation & Maps from Nokia Developer The Nokia development team shares technical tips on coding interactive map and geolocation services for the Series 40 platform. Using the Nokia web tools development environment, Andrew Knight gives you a quick and informative look at the map-based application possibilities available to you when developing for Nokia Series 40 phones, including the new Asha range. Learn more here: developer.nokia.com	From: nokiadevforum Views: 331 6 ratings
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Nokia Web Templates

The new Nokia Mobile Web Templates are a series of custom, tested mobile web styles and components optimized for high-end, mid-range, and low-end devices. Creative developers can mix and match components as needed or use the full series to completely customise their Web site or application.

Open Screen Project Fund

The Open Screen Project Fund is helping designers and developers reach more users than ever before by funding their efforts to publish content and applications across a broad range of connected devices. With this support, developers are creating fresh, engaging user experiences that take advantage of the expressive, cross-platform capabilities of the Adobe Flash Platform and the unique features of the Nokia Platform.

Nokia's N900: Sleek & Powerful

Check-out Nokia's new N900, a cutting-edge technology packed into a sleek, compact design. At the heart of this mobile computer is its powerful 600 MHz processor and up to 1GB of application memory, and 32GB of storage. Get fast wireless access with 3.5G and Wi-Fi connectivity. Take great pictures with a 5-megapixel camera. Find your position quickly and accurately with an integrated GPS. And of course a full QWERTY keyboard.

Events: Winner Announced in Nokia's Hackathon 2009

At this spring's Nokia Developer Summit 2009 in Monaco, an intense 24 hour hackathon was held where competing developers built some very innovative mobile apps. Who won? It was David Castro and the team at Plusmo for their "Social Location Widget". Congratulations go to David who will be one of the first to receive a Nokia N97 which will be pre-loaded with his very own app, and Plusmo, the developers from California who were presented with a cheque for €15,000.

For more details, see Nokia's blog with this video and Plusmo's press release and their blog post with good app photos.

Ovi Store: Worldwide, profitable distribution for your mobile apps

Once you've built your app you'll be able to use the new Ovi Store to easily distribute and monitize it to tens of millions of Nokia device owners all over the world. As a publisher you get a 70% revenue share. Go to publish.ovi.com to sign-up now.

Featured Video: Nokia N97 Widgets

See the hot new Nokia N97 in action. Two quick examples of software additions since its launch at Nokia World. Home screen widgets (including a fully implemented Facebook widget) amd kinetic (flick) scrolling in the web browser (see it large on YouTube).