Develop for Mobile

So, you’ve decided to start developing applications, content, or services for Nokia devices. Good thinking!

Whether you’re pursuing this for personal pleasure or because you want to take your business into the mobile space, Forum Nokia offers a wealth of resources to help you design, build, test, certify, market, and sell or promote your applications, content, services, or website to mobile users. Many in the business of mobile development have found that Nokia devices give them access to hundreds of millions of users whose appetite for mobile applications, content, and services continues to grow.

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Mobilise websites

The mobile web is a reality. Soon, accessing the web from a mobile device will be how most people use the internet.

Forum Nokia offers a wealth of resources to help you optimise your web experience for mobile browsers. Coupled with Nokia’s support for standard web technologies, taking your website mobile has never been easier. You might also like to consider the advantages of single-click access to your web content enabled by WRT widgets, or explore the possibilities offered by the ability to interact with device data in WRT widgets for the latest S60 devices. Whatever approach you want to take, you’ll find all the information you need here.

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Get Design Ideas

Effective interaction design and visual design are integral parts of any successful product. Get inspiration from the latest innovations in mobile interaction and visual design. Then find the tools and resources you need to craft quality mobile applications and content that fully satisfy end users.

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Find out about Testing, Signing and Technical Support

Application testing is a required component of the development process. Every application offered through Nokia sales channels must have Java Verified™ or Symbian Signed certification guaranteeing its integrity. This section provides directions and helpful guidelines to minimise time-to-market through fast, efficient, and easy application testing.

You will also find information about Forum Nokia Technical Support, which offers technical expertise to mobile developers during the application development process. Technical support can be used to solve a specific problem or answer a focused technical question, on a case-by-case basis.

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Go to Market

Let’s suppose you’ve just completed development on a new application that will forever change the way people use their mobile devices. Now what? Are you prepared to market and sell your product to consumers around the world?

The new publishing to Ovi tool enables third-party application and content developers to easily access a single Nokia channel — the Ovi Store — that can reach many millions of consumers. This channel will create instant revenue opportunities: Developers who use the publishing to Ovi tool will receive a 70 per cent revenue share from their applications and content that are distributed through the Ovi Store. The store will offer consumers applications, games, personalisation content, and more.

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Do Something Else

Interested in Development But Not Sure Where to Go?

So you want to develop the next great application but you do not know where to go now. This is exactly why Forum Nokia exists, to support applications during creation and marketing them afterwards. Let us help you find a starting point.

Not Interested in Developing/Selling/Testing an Application?

If you don’t want to develop or sell an application, you still have a place at Forum Nokia. Help design and offer technical support for brand new applications.

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