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!

Six months ago Forum Nokia released Projects, a free online projects hosting with integrated version control, discussion forums, ticketing and other tools allowing complete project management and collaboration among developers worldwide.

After six months, 1000 registered developers, 460 projects, many updates, today Projects goes officially out of beta.

If you still haven’t tried out Forum Nokia Projects, you can start exploring the projects created and maintained by Forum Nokia itself, as these:

• Notifications API
• Nokia Data Gathering
• Ovi Maps Rendering API

How many of you have already started or joined a project? What’s your opinion about this tool?

After a long wait, and multiple queries, Ovi Maps released the official API to integrate maps in all mobile applications: the Ovi Maps Rendering API.

The API is published as a public project on Forum Nokia Projects, allowing developers to have full support from the Ovi Maps team, via the discussion boards, Wiki pages and the integrated ticket system.

You can use this service to display a given geographical position, points of interest, routes, turning points, junction views etc. The necessary data such as position, radius, zoom level, map type etc. are specified by parameters as part of simple URL requests. The created URL containing these data can be shared via SMS. It is also possible to embed the resulting map images into your own applications.

Until today, two of the main option for developers to integrate maps in their apps were represented by Google Maps, that raised several discussion regarding its allowed usages, and Ovi Street Maps, whose implementation was never so straightforward.

Being based on simple REST calls, Ovi Maps Rendering API allow for a simple integration on all Nokia technologies, so we can expect for rich map applications to come out in the nearest future.

If you want to start using Ovi Maps in your application, here are the next steps:

1. read the documentation overview
2. check out the usage examples
3. and take a look at the full API reference to start coding

We’re curious about your experiments with Ovi Maps rendering API, so if you want to share your first experiences and thoughts about this API, drop us a line!