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Symbian platform breakdown and new 'active installed base' chart

I'm someone who is fascinated by numbers and data points, in this case stats from a well known Symbian developer, Hugo van Kemenade, author of Mobbler, which has been around for all varieties and interfaces of Symbian for years. Meaning that looking at his download numbers and breakdown is very interesting indeed. I wonder if a few other developers might share their numbers too? In the meantime, a little extrapolation brings up charts and stats which will be surprising to many.

# Posted by Steve in Features at 9:03 UTC, Apr 25th || Comments
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The huge potential problem with in-app purchases

You may recall seeing some pointed comments by me in the recent mini-review of Checkers Deluxe, with a load of opportunities in the game to tap a button to fire off premium SMS to buy such and such a function? The overuse of this mechanism has in fact inspired me to put finger to keyboard in full 'rant' mode. This is all with a Symbian perspective, though elements of my complaints will of course apply to other mobile platforms.

# Posted by Steve in Features at 7:49 UTC, Mar 20th || Comments

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Nokia releases API map for porting apps to Qt

Nokia has published a great resource for mobile developers who are interested in transferring their skills to Symbian apps via the Qt framework. The Nokia Developer website has published three guides for finding the Qt equivalent of API calls for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone 7. It has come late in Symbian’s life, but it is just what the developer world needed to reduce the friction in developing for this not-so-dead platform.

# Posted by David in News at 20:21 UTC, Feb 9th || Comments
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Qt SDK 1.2 released

An updated version of the Qt SDK, version 1.2, was released today. It contains all the tools required to create Qt applications for Nokia's Symbian devices. The new version includes Qt Creator 2.4 (bringing improvement to the QML editor and numerous bug fixes) and Qt Mobility 1.2 (improved API access to Bluetooth and NFC).

# Posted by Rafe in News at 19:19 UTC, Feb 1st || Comments
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Nokia store passes 11 million downloads a day

11 million content items are being downloaded from Nokia Store every day, according to figures recently released by Nokia. This annualises to a rate of 4 billion downloads a year, or 1 billion a quarter. The top five countries for downloads from Nokia Store are India, China, Russia, Brazil and Turkey. The top device is the N8, followed by the 5800, 5233, 5230 and C3.

# Posted by Rafe, Steve in News at 13:48 UTC, Jan 10th || Comments
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Marco Argenti on Nokia's developer activities and opportunities

In this series of videos Marco Argenti, SVP Developer Experience and Marketplace at Nokia, explains some of the guiding principals behind Nokia's developer activities and the opportunities available for developers on Nokia's platforms. The video series was recorded at MEF Americas 2011 by 361 Degrees.

# Posted by Rafe in News at 18:45 UTC, Jan 2nd || Comments
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The ZingMagic story

There's a nice piece over on the Nokia Developer blog highlighting the story of ZingMagic, a long time favourite developer here at AAS for polished native Symbian games. The piece covers how the company got started, how its games are built and recent success with advertisement-sponsored versions of its games.

# Posted by Steve in News at 14:16 UTC, Dec 9th || Comments

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Fri 24th May, 2013

19:23 Ovum survey confirms promising growth for mobile applications in... SymbianOne
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Thu 23rd May, 2013

22:07 deCarta Adds LBS Industry Executive Steve Altman to Team SymbianOne
Former Nokia/NAVTEQ Executive joins as VP Business Development
22:06 Location Forum Releases Groundbreaking Data Privacy Guidelines SymbianOne
Comprehensive recommendations and risk assessment scorecard cover enterprise location applications as well as consumer location-based services
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WOAH, this is just downright awesome! The annual CTIA wireless industry show is on this week in Vegas and as usual, there’s plenty of cool announcements coming out of the mobile ecosystem.
09:37 The Consequences of Not Using Pure Android Mobile Phone Development
Last March I wrote about the need for Android UI design to look more like Android and less like iOS. This is something Google calls Pure Android. Typical violations include splash screens, ‘Back’ buttons, right carets on lists and toolbars at the bottom. I previously w...

Tue 21st May, 2013

17:02 Video - Nokia Lumia 925 #switch Launch Event, London SymbianOne
Nokia launched the Nokia 925 in an official PR launch event last week in London, sadly the invite to yours truly @gletham seems to have gone missing ;0) but regardless, here's a cool video from the event
12:45 Android App Analysis Mobile Phone Development
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Mon 20th May, 2013

17:18 Mobile Spy® Releases World's First Instant Stealth Camera and... SymbianOne
Retina-X Studios, LLC, the creators of Mobile Spy, announced today a new version of the software version 6.5.

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