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Jayway, Nokia and Microsoft hosts a great code camp in Malmö, Sweden, May 23. Whether you want to be inspired by great developers from Jayway or want to show us your great app, don’t miss this code camp! You also have the chance to win a brand new Nokia Lumia 800!

We start with a free coding session. After that we move on to a show&tell – where you can show either your app, or present an idea for an app. Best app/presentation is awarded with a Nokia Lumia 800! Nokia and Microsoft are sponsors and will also attend as a jury.

Hosts:

Dag König, Windows Phone Camp, Microsoft

Mattias Nord, Developer, Nokia

Mario Boikov, Mobile, Jayway

Håkan Reis, UX/WP7, Jayway

Andreas Hammar, .NET/WP7, Jayway

When?

Wednesday, May 23, 16.00 – 21.00

Where?

Jayway, 
Hans Michelsensgatan 9,
 211 20 Malmö

Do I need to bring anything?

Bring your computer, and also great if you download the WP SDK before the event.

Read more and register here

Last week we told you about UTV Indiagames and their great achievement of reaching 100 million downloads from Nokia Store. Now they are accompanied by our Nordic friends Pico Brothers, who just recently also joined the exclusive 100-million club.

With great apps like Youtube Downloader and Milk the Cow, the Pico Brothers surely lives up to their motto of making mobile phones more fun.

The guys behind Pico Brothers are Niklas Karlström and Kristian Engsjö (and also their dog Viggo). Pico Brothers have been developing great apps for Nokia Store for several years now, and have recently also started developing for Windows Phone, so be sure to check out their apps on Marketplace as well.

We congratulate Pico Brothers for reaching this milestone and look forward to more amazing apps that will make our devices more fun to use!

Read more about the Pico Brothers on Nokia Conversations

Don’t miss the upcoming Nokia Developer webinars! The sessions will provide you with great info on various aspects of app development and distribution.

The webinars coming up shortly includes sessions on how to build a Series 40 Web App in one hour, and app development with Nokia Maps for Series 40 phones.

Other planned webinars for May includes Apps development with the Java ME Maps API, Creating a Form based UI using NetBeans.

Missed a webinar? Be sure to look through the recorded sessions, where all the past webinars are available.

100 million. That is a remarkable number. With great titles like Ra.One Genesis and IPL Cricket Fever, UTV Indiagames, part of The Walt Disney Company, is the first developer to achieve more than 100 million downloads in Nokia Store.

Vishal Gondal is the founder and CEO of UTV Indiagames, and has a long relationship with Nokia. He says that Nokia Store is one of the factors that created a gaming boom in India, since it’s really simple to use and the variety of content attracts people in all ages. Hitting 100 million downloads is of course not an easy task. Vishal believes that an important factor is the development of the Nokia ecosystem, and the support Nokia gives to developers.

UTV Indiagames have truly set a new industry benchmark for developers, and they did by applying a hyper local approach. Vishal is now looking forward to launching Indiagames on Windows Phone.

Read the full story about UTV Indiagames and how they gained global success at Nokia Conversations, or see what Nokia’s head of developer, Marco Argenti, has to say at developer.nokia.

Ben Riga appeared at the big Windows Phone Event at Nokia Denmark, Frederikskaj in December. He had a great program filled with a lot of info on Windows Phone 7.5. Ben will now return to Nokia Denmark on April 30, and this time the theme for the day is “Windows Phone 7.5 – Advanced Topics” for Windows Phone 7.5.

Come and join us on Monday, April 30, from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM to take part of this great agenda:

• Optimization for Windows Phone 7.5 Refresh (aka Tango) devices and the reduced memory

• Performance Optimization

• Common issues to keep in mind when publishing

• Localization of apps to target more markets

Read more and sign up here!

There is a participant fee of 50 DKK in order to ensure that everyone who buys a ticket also have a plan to attend.. All money goes directly to UNICEF, Denmark.

As part of the Windows Phone 7.5 refresh, Windows Phone devices may now use the 7x27a-processor.

In order to prepare your video content and Windows Phone apps that incorporate video for the Nokia Lumia 610 and other Windows Phone devices with 7x27a processors, you should definitely take a look this best practice guidance.

The article provides info about supported video codecs for phones with a 7x27a-processor, what will happen if you play unsupported formats, and several great hands-on tips.

Read more about video playback guidance for Nokia Lumia 610

Want to learn more about what the future holds when it comes to Windows Phone? Then you should attend Tech Days Sweden 2012, hosted by Microsoft. Get inspired by the latest technology, meet people in the business, and listen to the most experienced experts.

The event includes 100 speakers, 100 sessions, and 2000 people will attend, network, and share this great experience. News in this year’s event is the Pre-Conference, and whether you want to get in-depth info on Windows Phone, Cloud – Windows Azure Platform, or discover new products or methods, this is the place to be. Ben Riga from MS Corp will host the Pre Day, and there will be both beginner- and advanced sessions on developing for WP. You will also learn how to port your WP7 apps to Windows 8.

Tech Days 2012 will take place in Örebro, Sweden, April 24-26

Learn more about Tech Days Sweden 2012

The Pre-Conference sounds really cool, I want to listen to Dag König, Microsoft Developer Evangelist, on why this is great for me as a developer.

The Nokia developer community is full of inspiring people. Mario Boikov is one of them. Mario is the guy behind great apps like Jamify and Tvmatchen, and he recently was appointed Nokia Developer Champion for his highly appreciated involvement in the Nokia developer community.

As Mario is the first Swede to be recognized as a Nokia Developer Champion we had a little chat with him about where he finds his inspiration, what advice he would give other developers, and what he thinks about the future.

Mario, first of all, congratulations to the Nokia Developer Champion title, how does it feel?

The though of receiving the Nokia Developer Champion title never crossed my mind, so I was totally surprised. It really feels good to be honored with this award, especially since this is something I’ve been doing mostly in my spare time. An athlete probably gets a couple of medals during his/hers career but as a developer you’re happy if someone tells you that your software works well. Getting this kind of recognition is fantastic and gives your motivation a boost.

When starting with a new project, where do you find inspiration?

I often get my inspiration from passionated developers. You always end up in a worthwhile discussion about interesting technologies, best practices, and such.

You have shared a lot of great tips in the developer community, if you would give one good advice for people who just started developing for Nokia, what would it be?

Get involved in the community. Join the Nokia developer community at http://www.developer.nokia.com. You’ll not only find a lot of good articles, references and example code for all Nokia platforms, you’ll also find forums, groups and project hosting. If you have a special interest in Qt-development, join the Qt Developer Network community at qt-project.org. It’s a friendly community and the web site contains all you need to know about Qt-development.

If you look forward, what type of trends do you see or predict that is interesting for developers in the Nokia community?

As an open-source advocate I’m quite curious about Nokia’s intention with Qt since they still put a lot of effort into the project. There’ve been a lot of noise about ‘Next Billion’ and that Qt is a part of that strategy. The question is if the ‘Next Billion’ has something to do with the rumored Meltemi OS (Qt on top of Linux) for a new low end device which should replace the S40 OS and Symbian. If such device exist and the upcoming Qt5 release is used to its full potential, I think we’ll have to reconsider the term ‘feature phone’.

Thanks a lot for sharing Mario, we look forward to read about your future projects!

Inspired? Read more about how to become a Nokia Developer Champion

The Online Marketing Tool helps you to promote your app. With it, you can create customized banners for your app on Windows Phone Marketplace.

It’s really simple. You provide the URL for your Windows Phone Marketplace app. Once you have chosen message, visuals, and banner sizes, the Online Marketing Tool will do the rest, and then you can use the banners instantly.

That’s really great, I want to get started right away