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Microsoft and Nokia have just released a suite of tools to help mobile app developers port from Symbian to Windows Phone 7.
This is great news. And I just hope that Microsoft stop penalising app developers & publishers by forcing them to cover the 20% slice required by Yalla Apps. For the record, I appreciate that Yalla Apps provide a service and should be paid; I just think they should be paid out of the Microsoft slice as opposed to the publisher slice.
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Forum Nokia is hosting a free 3-days intensive training workshop on Qt and Qt Quick in Dubai, U.A.E on 28-30 June 2011. Based on the popular Qt Creator IDE, the Nokia Qt SDK brings the power of Qt to Symbian, Maemo, and MeeGo application development. Learn how Qt cuts Symbian lines of code by up to 70% and at the same time delivers native app performance, platform integration, and look and feel. Also find out how to reach 100 million Symbian smartphones and 150 million to come in 190 countries with Qt and Ovi Store.
Click here to find out more and register.
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Forum Nokia are running a series of webinars on game development that I highly recommend to any AppsArabia members interested in producing game apps or who are developing for Symbian in general.
Click here for a full list of the Forum Nokia upcoming game development related webinars.
read more respondNearly 10% mobile growth in MEA … and 1 in 12 handsets sold in the region in Q4 was a smartphone!
Check out this article from Gulf News for more.
read more respondThe world’s most widely used smartphone platform lives on so there’s every reason to develop for this platform.
Nokia has recently decided to focus on Qt as their sole application development framework to simplify things for developers.
Read the statement from Nokia’s CTO, Rich Green.
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