Forum Nokia scheduled a 2-session webinar about building Maemo & Symbian app using Qt Creator:
This webinar will demonstrate the cross-platform capabilities of Qt on the Maemo™ and Symbian platforms. Qt Creator is the IDE that accompanies the Qt 4.6 application and UI framework. Participants of the webinar will learn how to use Qt Creator to quickly and easily build and compile apps for both Maemo and Symbian platforms.
Building Maemo and Symbian Apps Using Qt Creator (Session 1) - 28 April
EMEA Session: 9am London | 10am Rome | 11am Helsinki | 4pm Singapore
Building Maemo and Symbian Apps Using Qt Creator (Session 2) - 11 May
EMEA Session: 9am London | 10am Rome | 11am Helsinki | 4pm Singapore
Couple days ago Adobe announced Creative Suite 5, the next evolution of Adobe products. It will be available on April 30th and will include many great features for mobile developers, from the iPhone packager in Flash CS5 to the new Device Central (including geolocation, HTML rendering, multitouch, accelerometer and many other powerful features).
This happens just after Apple unveiled both its iPhone OS 4.0 and its new iAd mobile advertising effort but most importantly excluding de-facto Flash developer to publish their iPhone packaged app on the Apple AppStore. Sad but true.
The Boston Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group is holding an eSeminar on Thursday April 15th at 12 PM EST (check your time). Speaker for this eSeminar is Matt Pollitt from digital agency ustwo™. He will talk about the company ustwo and the mobile projects they are working on.
Topics: ustwo™
When: Thursday April 15th at 12 PM EST
eSeminar link: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/ustwo/
Speaker: Matt Pollitt
Matt will talk about ustwo™ Flash Lite mobile projects (for example: b@tv), their distribution, performance issues and results. You don't want to miss! More info here.
The AT&T Developer Program is hosting its annual mobile application contest at CTIA WIRELESS 2010 in Las Vegas, giving you the chance to win a share of $40,000 in prize money and get your content or application out to over 80 million AT&T wireless subscribers.
The new Open Call – Apps For All! Contest is an evolution of the Fast-Pitch Platinum Awards. If you’ve participated in Fast-Pitch in the past, you’ll know what to expect and you’ll see how we’ve made it even better for developers! Read more here.
(via Mark) - The Mobile World Congress is a massive event with some 50,000 attendees from around the world. Each year there are around 50 Adobe employees from across the organization in attendance, including all the key members of the platform team at Adobe.
As always, the Spanish User Group are proud to host the Adobe Day at Adobe’s offices in Barcelona. This is your chance to hear direct from the Adobe team about their announcements, and to see Flash Player 10.1 on devices for the first time.
Timing/location:
- Torre Mapfre – Avinguda Litoral, 08005 Barcelona, Spain
- 09.30am – 5.00pm 19th February
- Space for 100 attendees
Note: Passing security takes time, arrive 15-30 mins early. More info here.
Forum Nokia is hosting a interesting two-session webinar about User Experience and Design Resources on January 28th.
What is user experience, anyways? Arabella David will give you the basics of what user experience is, and how elements of it can be used in developing an easier to use, more efficient application. We will review the free resources available online, the evaluations you can purchase for your app, and events where you can sit down face to face with a user experience specialist and immediately improve your app.
January 28th
Session 1 1pm London | 3pm Helsinki. Register here.
Session 2 11am San Francisco | 2pm New York. Register here.
(via Mark) - Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, given the huge investments with the Open Screen Project, will be Adobe's most important event in the mobile calendar. There will be a lot of interest for the launch of Flash Player 10.1 and iPhone native apps with Flash and Adobe AIR®. For this reason Adobe is giving away upon request complimentary passes to the Mobile World Congress exhibition halls. The free passes are limited to two per company on a first-come, first-served basis. Send an email to mwcstaff@adobe.com with your name, company name, and email address.
Join us at Mobile World Congress 2010, where Adobe and partners of the Open Screen Project will preview some of the innovations enabled by the Adobe® Flash® Player runtime for smartphones, smartbooks, and netbooks running popular entertainment, gaming, and video websites. In 2010, more devices will come to market supporting Adobe Flash Player and a new class of application known as "contextual applications." Experience firsthand contextual applications from leading brands that adapt presentation and performance to different application contexts — including various operating systems, platforms, and devices — and user personalization.
Read more here.
Forum Nokia will host on December16th and 17th a special 2-day webinar about the challenges of mobile internet services.
Day 1 - December 16th
Session 1: 9am Helsinki | 12:30pm Bangalore | 3pm Beijing | Register here.
Session 2: 11am San Francisco | 2pm New York | Register here.Day 2 - December 17th
Session 1: 9am Helsinki | 12:30pm Bangalore | 3pm Beijing | Register here.
Session 2: 11am San Francisco | 2pm New York | Register here.
In Day 1, Nokia experts will describe the challenges developers face with mobile internet services’ operating times. Typical problems involve applications that are always online and doing background data transfers. Practical examples will be presented.
In Day 2, Nokia experts will explain how to tackle the problems of mobile internet sservices’ operating times. The webinar will provide practical tools and guidelines for improving the energy efficiency of mobile applications.
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