The Quick Competition 2011 is running, and it’s the right time to get started with Qt Quick development (and get some great reward!)

So, here is a series of resources that will definitely help to do the first steps with this technology.

Developing UIs with Qt 4.7 and Qt Quick

In this webinar, the presenters show how to use Qt 4.7 and Qt Quick to develop killer UIs for Symbian devices such as the Nokia N8 mobile computer. Three different recordings are available:

• Portuguese recording
• Spanish recording
• EMEA recording
  

Open Source projects Forum Nokia Projects

Forum Nokia Projects hosts various projects based on Qt Quick that will definitely help you to get acquainted with some Quick techniques. Some examples are:

• DJ Turntable: a Qt Quick application that allows the user to scratch audio with the turntable and play predefined background beats, or create their own beats with the drum machine. The purpose of the application is to demonstrate the integration of Qt Quick and the Qt Mobility audio interface.
• Touch’n'learn: a collection of finger friendly learning games for your Qt enabled [mobile] touch device. So far, there are counting, reading and clock reading lessons.

Forum Nokia Wiki – Qt Quick articles

Forum Nokia Wiki is the best place to find technical articles that cover mobile development for all Nokia platforms, and the Qt Quick category is rapidly populating with new and rich articles, as these:

• Using Flickable to implement a view change animation
• Implementing orientation change animation with QML

Let’s start!

Forum Nokia just launched a new competition for all Qt Quick developers!

Here is the official announcement:

The Qt SDK 1.1 Tech Preview is now available, and comes with cool new features like Design for visually creating QML UIs, and seamless deployment support for both Symbian and Maemo. To encourage you to play with it, we’re having a “Quick Competition” – you have roughly 6 weeks to either:

• create an amazing app in Forum Nokia Projects that will catch the eye and please the “inner nerd”, or
• write a great Qt Quick article, tutorial or guide (with code) on the Wiki

If you’re a Qt developer, this is a great chance to win a brand new Nokia E7. And, if you’re not familiar with Qt Quick, here a good place to start!

The Ovi Daily App blog is hosting the new “Must-Have App of the Year Awards”, where you can vote on your favorite mobile apps from the past year in each of six different categories.

For you, this is time to give Nokia developers the glory they deserve, and enter the draw for a brand new Nokia N8, loaded with the six winning applications! To be eligible, you have to predict all six of the winning apps.

The winning apps, as chosen by the voting public, will be announced in the Ovi Daily App on 5 January 2011.

And the nominees are…

Games

• Doodle Jump
• Horseface – Running the Forest
• Crazy Hamster
• Bounce Boing Battle
• Farm Frenzy

Social Networking

• Socially
• Snaptu
• Foursquare
• WordPress
• Gravity

Music

• Midomi Soundhound
• TuneWiki Lyrics with Music
• Moodagent Playlist DJ
• Romplr Remix
• Shazam

Utilities

• BlogRadio
• JoikuSpot WiFi Hot Spot
• Fring
• Endomondo Sports Tracker
• Wikitude World Browser

Business/Productivity

• Mobile Docs
• TripSketch Green Traveler
• Waze GPS Navigation
• HRS Hotel Portal
• OpenTable

Entertainment

• Comics Creator
• Touchnote
• My Magic Pencil
• NHL GameCenter
• Dilbert Mobile

If you haven’t tried out these apps, it is the right time to do it and to vote for them!

Please note: All of the apps nominated this year are compatible with Nokia Symbian OS, S60 5.0 devices (such as the Nokia N97 mini), since apps for those devices were prevalent this year in the app reviews for the Ovi Daily App blog.

Nokia Devs launches its first contest for all Flash and Flash Lite developers: you can win two full licenses for FDT 3.5 Pure, worth $129, with just a tweet or joining our Facebook page! The same license will also allow you to fully use FDT 4 beta versions.

We asked Bruno Fonzi, from the Powerflasher team, some questions about FDT:

What is FDT?

FDT is the most powerful Flash/Flex development environment for Actionscript 2, 3 and MXML. The only editor built from the ground-up to support the needs of ActionScript developers, built by Flash developers for Flash developers. With highly efficient and time-saving features, FDT enhances your workflow while increasing your productivity.

FDT enables you to focus on what you love best: coding. It offers a non-intrusive, intuitive way to help you write, debug, test, and refactor your code. FDT is not about making rules. Since you are in complete control it goes with your flow. FDT gives freedom and creativity while coding. Enable FDT to do the uninteresting, tedious and repetitive work. This is our meaning of pure coding comfort.

Why should Flash Lite devlopers use FDT?

As some versions of FlashLite still supports AS2, FDT 3.5 users can take full advantage of the FDT coding environment. Being an Eclipse-based IDE, developers will be able to use all the powerful Eclipse features, together with new and specific features built for Flash and Flash Lite development. Also, FDT allows to develop Flash Lite applications without the need to use any other commercial tool (e.g.: Flash Professional), by allowing you to use free solutions as MTASC.

Where can we get more information about FDT?

Contest Rules are simple:

1. To participate in the Twitter contest, follow nokiadevelopers on Twitter and post this tweet (multiple tweets will not be counted):
   

   Follow @nokiadevelopers and RT to win a FDT 3.5 Pure license! Full rules here: http://bit.ly/cFLgiS #flashlite #fdt #nokiadevscontest

2. To participate in the Facebook contest, become a fan of Nokia Devs’ Facebook page and drop a comment (saying “Hello!” is fine!) on the official contest Wall post
   
3. Cross your fingers!

One winner will be chosen from the Facebook fans, and the other one from the posted Tweets: both the winners will be randomly selected. To increase you chances of being picked as a winner, you can participate in both contests.

The contests will run until the end of Tuesday, July 20 2010 (GMT time), and results will be published here on Nokia Devs.