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[Roger]

I got this in my inbox today and thought that CC members might be interested:

Hi All,

Nokia is holding a developer contest: Calling All Innovators. They’re challenging developers worldwide to create new applications and games for the new Nokia N8 and future Nokia devices for consumers in the U.S. and Canada. There is $10 million in cash, devices, and marketing prizes up for grabs so now is the time for you to take advantage of Ovi Store’s global reach which is the world’s largest community of app-purchasing mobile consumers.

Developers can build apps for the Nokia N8 in three ways:

1. Native application developers: Nokia Qt SDK – the new way to build powerful native apps for Symbian^3, Maemo, and in the future, MeeGo
2. Web developers: Nokia Web Runtime , including Adobe Flash Lite 4.0
3. Java developers: Java Runtime which comes with every Nokia device, is the most widely available environment for mobile devices. Java allows you to reach not only N8 and Symbian^3 consumers, but also the high-volume Nokia Series 40 line of mobile phones easily and quickly.

There are 11 categories for applications and 6 categories for games.

Here’s more information about the device:

The Nokia N8 is a powerful Symbian^3 device that is a new platform for innovative developers to create advanced, graphically rich, high performance apps that will delight consumers. For a complete picture of what’s new with Symbian^3 from both a consumer and developer perspective, please visit Device Details -- Nokia N8-00 and Nokia USA - Nokia N8 - Product

[wim DC]

contest site ->N8 Contest - Calling All Innovators | Forum Nokia

[Roger]

Thanks, oxano!

[whiizard]

That was a purely genius idea to bring this to light but can I get more info about that post

[gokuajmes]

Well the contest had started long back i suppose, But it would be really Wacky !! if CC members could team-up and participate in events like these..

[wim DC]

I've always wondered how to code stuff for phones etc. Because this came up i just download netbeans (cause i use intelliJ for java, but the world barely knows it and the nokia guide is using netbeans too) downloaded the sdk and now hoping to get a hello world going :D

update
I couldn't get it started on Windows 7 64x. Will try again this week.
Tried it in xp 32x once and it worked.

Edited by wim DC, 30 September 2010 - 05:28 AM.

[Roger]

gokuajmes said:

CC members could team-up and participate in events like these..

Do we have enough interest on CC to start a team? We will probably need someone with experience to be a team leader... any volunteers?

[wim DC]

Roger said:

We will probably need someone with experience to be a team leader

**** that's right, can't get the hello world going xD
The smartphone won't boot xD. SDK is stuck at "connecting to agent".

[gokuajmes]

Roger said:

Do we have enough interest on CC to start a team? We will probably need someone with experience to be a team leader... any volunteers?

I am totally new to Phone app development, But if people start pouring in their knowledge we can start picking out members strengths..
Also lately i had a try at the Google Android Sdk, hell of a mess i am doing with it. But my idea start coding simple scripts then try them big. Implement them in applications, sell your application. Make code call too have it's own market place like Envato.com has..
I am moving towards that view..So i will start writing simple scripts.. I think it is about time we start redesigning Code Call towards a wonderful future.. what do you all think?

[wim DC]

Oh... my... GOD


Success :D

It just took very long for the emulator to boot. THAT long that the SDK timeouts, but I left the emulator open, closed the sdk window. Went away for lunch. I came back and the emulator was active (had to enter date & time because it booted for the first time). Then wait some more.

Finally ran hello world again and it works like a charm.

So, first run the emulator (should be emulator.exe in the start menu). Wait for it to fully boot before clicking 'run' and let netbeans try to open the emulator himself.

There is this process however "debugagent.exe" that goes to 50% of my cpu (100% of one of the 2 cpus) when i click stuff on the nokia n8.. I hope i can turn this of when i don't want to debug...

[Roger]

that's awesome! maybe we can move this into a separate mobile development thread... if we get enough threads, we can group them into a sub-forum.

[lor]

This has sparked my interest in designing a phone app in java... I'm going to put this on my bucket list for sure.