Another in my series of developer interviews has just been published at Nokia Conversations. This time I was chatting to Sebastian Brannstrom, creator of Podcatcher but also (for the purposes of this interview) looking at his new hit app, CoverUp, which retrieves album art for your music files on Symbian smartphones. In the chat, he talked about the app, the challenges he faced and the tools he used, especially Qt.

From the interview:

"So I manually went through all the albums on my N97 and downloaded and attached art to them. Needless to say, this took a very long time. Already, then, I had the idea to write a tool that automatically downloaded and set album covers based on artist and album names. But at the time I was busy with other things, and the prospect of writing this in Symbian C++ was not very appealing.

In fall of 2010, Symbian^3 and Qt had arrived. I attended Nokia World, where they not only held many sessions about Qt development, but they also handed out N8s to all developers. The N8 came with the new glorious landscape album ‘cover flow’ that just screamed for album art. I really wanted to try out Qt so a few weeks later I dusted off the cover art idea. Since I have a lot of developer experience, Qt was very easy and quick to get started with, and I wrote a prototype version of CoverUp that downloaded art on a rainy November Saturday."