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Symbian Developer Site Now Open
Via David Cabeiro's Forum Nokia Blog and Symbian Foundation's David Wood comes the news that the Symbian Foundation Developer site is now open to all. Entry into the site currently requires registration, but the notice on the home page says that eventually the site will have complete public access. Screenshot and any comments below.
Ovi Java Applications Will Not Require Java Verified Certificate
One for the developers now, as Aleksi Uotila confirms, via the Developing on S60 blog, that Nokia will not be insisting that Java applications in the Ovi Store will require to have a Java Verified testing certificate. While it is still recommended, it is not an essential requirement - unlike signing the Java app via Verisign or Thwaite, which is required.
Symbian Foundation adds Larry Berkin and Dietmar Tallroth
Today the Symbian Foundation has announced two key additions to its management team: Larry Berkin, formerly a VP at ACCESS, who will head Symbian's US office and act as Head of Alliance Management and Dietmar Tallroth, formerly Director of Legal for Nokia's Open Source and Java, who will serve as Symbian's General Counsel. The Symbian Foundation continues to recruit staff as it grows towards it goal of around 200 employees by the end of 2009.
Calling All Innovators – The final call for entries approaches
It’s the final month before Forum Nokia’s Calling All Innovators competition closes. The competition offers a significant opportunity for developers to get global exposure for their innovative application or widget. In this developer section feature, I talk to Srikanth Raju, head of marketing for Forum Nokia, to find out more.
The Samsung i8910 HD to ship with Qt, Ruby and Python?
There's a fascinating (and welcome) post by Phil Northam over on the Symbian Foundation site talking about the new i8910HD. Particularly interesting is the quote "the i8910HD is packed with a host of powerful options: Qt, Python, Ruby... All these run out-of-the box without change on the i8910HD". Good news all round, I say, though I suspect there's a degree of firmware-updating, downloadable addons and poetic license still involved. Anyone able to shed more light on this? See also Samsung's accelerating Mobile Innovator programme.
What Every Good Game Developer Should Know
Although specifically for the iPhone, Slide To Play have put together a Top Ten Things Developers For Mobile Games Need To Do and it's an article I want to send to everyone who makes a game on Symbian OS, including a number of N-Gage partners. On reflection, these are all pretty obvious, but the number of games that miss out these for no discernible reason could easily fill an online app store.
Python for S60 gets proper touch support - but still not a formal release
PyS60 enthusiast Croozeus breaks the news of another landmark test release of the next-gen version of Python for S60, v1.9.5. Significantly, this includes 'listbox' support for touch-screen devices, meaning that we're one step closer to a full v2.0 release that supports all recent S60 phones (touch and non-touch). In other related news, there's heated discussion going on about Nokia's decision not to allow Python-coded applications in the new Ovi app store.
Dev Week – Sensitive Java, updated themes, and location aware advertising
Something for just about everyone this week: the Mobile Sensor API for Java ME on the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, an update for S60 5th Edition theme creation, and an extended service for mobile advertising from NAVTEQ.
Ovi Maps Player API - how Nokia puts Apps on Maps
At their recent developer summit Nokia described how it would be opening up the Ovi platform to third party developers. Apps on Maps was given as the initial example and now, at the Where 2.0 conference, Nokia has announced more of the technical details for the web side elements. The Ovi Maps Player API will allow developers to embed Ovi Maps on third party website and create 'mash-ups' by overlaying data and interacting with the map. As such it will be in direct competition with the Google Maps and its accompanying APIs. Read on for more details.
Ovi Store launching soon?
Many people have noted that the Download! client now gives a message saying that it will be "temporarily unavailable" today, while at the same time the Ovi Store site currently asks for a name and password to access it. Could something be stirring behind the scenes at Ovi Store?
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