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The decision to develop and sell an application is an easy one, but what do you need to know before you invest time, money, and effort in your project? Let us point you in the right direction.

Whether you are new to mobile development or a seasoned veteran, and whether you write games or applications for the enterprise, getting started with Nokia platforms is simple. But before you invest time, money, and effort in your project, here are key elements to consider.

As is the case in many competitive environments, performing effective and relevant business research gives you a better chance to succeed. Forum Nokia offers a variety of resources to help you understand the market conditions, master development challenges, and overcome go-to-market obstacles.

Because delivering positive user experiences can lead to additional sales, understanding the importance of quality is paramount to the success of any application. Following a clear and effective development and quality assurance process will help you create applications that customers will accept and embrace.

An application’s design also plays a major role in whether consumers find it to be useful and desirable. Not surprisingly, making a product that embraces usability best practices often creates a major competitive advantage. This can also help your application during the testing and certification process, which is a mandatory step before Forum Nokia can offer it to the public.

Once an application is ready for public consumption, Forum Nokia works closely with operators and aggregators to ensure customers have a full portfolio of content and applications available to them. Forum Nokia also has its own consumer and enterprise channels that further connect you and your products directly to Nokia users around the globe.

Forum Nokia Champion is an invitation-only reward and recognition programme that honours selected Forum Nokia members for their activities in and contributions to the mobile industry. These individuals, known as Forum Nokia Champions, are chosen for the programme on the basis of their outstanding skills and dedication to the Forum Nokia community. They represent all regions of the world and are experts in many areas of mobile development. Get to know the Forum Nokia Champions »

You use Forum Nokia’s website to find the latest information about developing mobile applications for Nokia platforms. But you crave more — and you’d like to be among the first to know what’s new. One way to gain that edge is as simple as checking your e-mail.

The Forum Nokia Developer Newsletter, a free e-mail newsletter published twice a month, provides quick overviews of the most recent Nokia information relevant to your work. The newsletter is available in both HTML and plain-text formats, for your convenience.

Subscribe to the Forum Nokia Developer Newsletter today to keep up with the news you need.

Members of Forum Nokia Developer Programmes such as Forum Nokia Launchpad, Forum Nokia PRO, and Forum Nokia Champion also receive customised e-mail newsletters. For more information, please go to Forum Nokia Premium Services.

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We also maintain the Forum Nokia Developer Newsletter Archive, which includes more than a year’s worth of content. Every newsletter issue is listed by date, along with the headlines it contains, so you can easily find what you want to read.

If you have questions about Forum Nokia’s newsletters, please contact us.

While we want you to visit the Forum Nokia website often, we also want to make it as easy as possible for you to get the content you need. To help you stay up-to-date with what interests you most from our wide range of material, we make much of our content available in the form of custom news feeds. You can easily identify this content by the RSS icon it displays: . Just click this icon to create a news feed that will provide updates of that content to your preferred feed reader. When you use the reader, you’ll see at a glance when new information has been posted about your topic of interest.

If you’re new to our RSS feeds, a good way to start is to make sure you’re a registered member of Forum Nokia. Registration is free, and it takes only a couple of minutes to complete. After you register, you’ll have the opportunity to specify your professional goals and interests on your profile page. Once you complete your profile, you’ll be presented with a list of customised feeds, based on the topics you selected in your profile. You can revise this information at any time, as your interests and preferences evolve.

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Forum Nokia is much more than a website. We offer in-person training and Code Camps, as well as Webinars and other e-learning sessions led by industry experts. We’re active around the world at trade shows and conferences, which often feature participation by and demonstrations from innovative developers and Forum Nokia staff at our booths. Forum Nokia also sponsors great contests, where developers can compete for prizes and glory. But how do you keep track of all of these activities, and how do you get involved?

Take a look at Forum Nokia’s Events tab. In this section, you’ll find detailed information about the full range of upcoming mobile-industry events offered by Forum Nokia and others around the world. For your convenience, events are listed both by date and by region. You can register online for many of them. 

Forum Nokia provides support and information for faculty and students who want to develop applications on Nokia platforms. Here, you can explore information about curriculum materials, development tools, certification programs, and participate in discussions.

Few users want to deal with products that are slow, pointlessly complex, or incomprehensible. With user-centred mobile development, you validate your application concept and find it easier to decide what features to include. Usability work also helps you to ensure user interface consistency and enable users to interact smoothly with your product.

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