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Cross platform development is one of the key drivers when developing mobile services in the future. With the iPhone we have seen the number of mobile applications explode. Will the future of mobile internet be inside the browser or applications?

Come listen and talk about these subjects in Mobile Dev Camp Helsinki 2010. Event for startups and technology companies, developers and business people.

Main Stage

We have gone all retro and stuff and are applying the BETA label to our agenda, as there is still possibilities of changes even though we are only 7 days away from THE mobile event of the year (at least for Developers )

Agenda
10.30-11.15 Registration and Breakfast, sponsored by Ericsson
11.15-11.30 Welcome
11.30-12.15 Nokia feat. Qt – Cross-platform application and UI framework (Sami Viitanen)
12:15-12:45 Microsoft Phone 7 Series demo (Vesku Paananen)
12:45-13:00 Break
13.00-13.30 Creative Mobile app design with Python (Jürgen Scheible)
13:30-14:30 Panel: Cross platform development (Moderator: Peter Vesterbacka Panelists: Paul Houghton, Miika Virtanen, Jouni Mannonen)
14:30-15:30 Lunch, sponsored by Nokia + networking
15:30-16:00 Engineering success in the App Store (Jouni Mannonen)
16.00-16.45 Browser as first class app environment- trends and vision (HTML5, JS) (Göran AP Eriksson, Vladimir Katardiev)
16:45-17.00 Break
17.00-18.00 Panel: Is the future of mobile internet in the browser or native applications (Moderator Vesku Paananen, Panelists: Vladimir Katardiev, Teemu Kurppa, Juha Kaunisto, Lauri Piispanen)
18.00-18.30 Announce winner of Mobile Dev Challenge + sum up + Thank you!
18.30-> Party and networking

Workshop Rooms

The workshop rooms give you a chance to dig deeper into the latest mobile technologies. The rooms are manned with different platform experts ready to show you the cool things you can do.

This is also an excellent opportunity for you to connect with other developers. You can show what you, your company or your student projects is building at the moment. Honking your own horn is perfectly ok. We all want to see cool stuff.

Android

Comeks is in charge of the Android workshop room. Come and learn from Finland’s topmost Android experts how to get started on Android development. This is also the place to show your awesome Android projects or to find co-developers for your start-up. Anyone is free to do presentations.

The Android workshop room is the best place for Android competition coding as well. Whether you are just starting out or are doing advanced stuff, the Comeks guys can help you. Grab the SDK from here beforehand.

Ericsson

Ericsson Research will show You prototypes for real time push to Android browser, and extensions
allowing the web app to run even if U close the browser. We have been implementing html5-ish stuff
like Websockets and run-the-web-app in the background and are using our own web push prototype.
(have a look at https://labs.ericsson.com/apis/web-connectivity/).

We will share experiences about the work and the details about the realisation.

For those curious about such matters, You will have some Ericsson guys there with experience from
W3C and IETF work with HTML5 stuff and even operator widget runtime initiatives like BONDI and JIL.

iPhone

Grey Area and Huikea man the iPhone workshop room. Come and listen to short presentations on location based services, game coding on iPhone and user experience or do a presentation yourself. No pre-registration is required, just pick a topic you know about and do it.

If you want to learn about iPhone coding or just need a chill-out space to develop your iPhone competition application, this is the place to be. We have experts on standby during the day ready to help you get started or to assist you if you get stuck. Please download the SDK from Apple beforehand so we don’t kill the network.

Microsoft

It will be worth visiting this workshop space as Microsoft will be bringing along a whole bunch of different technology toys for everyone to play with.
First off, there will be a number of different Windows Mobile 6.5 devices that you can experiment with. Following on from the announcement at MWC of the new Windows Phone 7 Series you will be able to experiment with it on an touch enabled laptop (not quite a handset, but as close as you are likely to get for the next few months)
In addition to this, Microsoft will bring along an Xbox and a Zune hd live to allow you to play with these other parts of the Microsoft stack.

Vesku plans to run some extra competitions in the room for those visiting. Oh and he has convinced one of his friends from Samsung to help out on the day as well.

Nokia

People from Maemo Devices and Forum Nokia will be present in the Nokia workshop room during the entire event. Come around to ask questions, chat, ask for demonstrations and discuss about topics around the development environment. There won’t be a fixed schedule, but everything around your questions. Showing how to set-up the environment, small code-snippets, how to start developing for Nokia devices etc. The goal is to get the hands on Qt-development for mobile devices and have some fun. For the people who are working on applications for the competition, there will be support for all your questions.
Get the definitive low-down from the Wiki page

Sami works at Forum Nokia as a technical consultant. Currently his main tasks are around technical evangelism related to Nokia’s key developer offerings of technologies like Qt and Web Runtime, and technical support for Forum Nokia developer partners. Previously Sami has worked in the consultancy team of Digia, providing technical training and consulting for the Symbian OS projects worldwide. He’s working history also includes experience in acting as an entrepreneur and partner, as well as working in globally operating mobile companies in various positions.

Jürgen Scheible

Jürgen Scheible is a researcher, musician and media artist. He is a doctoral student at the Media department of Aalto University, School of Art and Design in Helsinki where he runs the Mobile Hub, a prototype development lab for mobile applications with a strong focus on artistic approaches and creative design. His research focuses on designing multi-modal user interfaces for creating and sharing interactive artistic experiences. He has previously worked for 8 years at Nokia and in 2006 he was as a visiting scientist at MIT. He is the recipient of the Best Arts Paper Award in ACM Multimedia 2005 in Singapore, and ACM Computers in Entertainment Scholarship Award in 2006. In 2006, 2007 and 2008 Jürgen was recognized as a Forum Nokia Champion for his driving vision to be a bridge builder between art, engineering and research. He is the author of the book ‘Mobile Python – Rapid prototyping of Applications on the Mobile Platform’ (Wiley, 2007). He has been giving innovation workshops on rapid mobile application prototyping in academic and professional settings e.g. at Stanford University, MIT, NTU Taiwan, Yahoo Research Berkeley and Nokia.

Vesa-Matti Paananen

Vesa-Matti “Vesku” Paananen is the mobile business group lead and responsible for Windows® phones business in the Consumer & Online division of Microsoft in Finland. He also drives the Windows Marketplace for Mobile application store in thirteen Western European countries. Before joining Microsoft Mr. Paananen has been part of the founding teams of a number of International and Finnish Internet and mobile start-ups. In 2000 he founded Mobile Monday, the open global mobile society now active in over 30 countries. In 2004 Mr. Paananen was honoured as ‘the Father of the Ringtones Business’ when he received the Special Recognition Award of Mobile Entertainment Forum for his contribution to developing the commercial ringtones business in 1997

Göran AP Eriksson

Göran AP Eriksson is an Ericsson Research expert on mobile communication services, old and new. He has been in the mobile industry for more than 15 years in different positions, the last 10 in the research organization. He is a technical leader for Ericsson Research work with HTML5 technologies and social networking, which among other things. The last three years focus has been on using HTML5 browsers on open OS like Android and Moblin for bringing VOIP and Social Media to device screens.

Panellists

Paul Houghton

Paul is a mobile systems architect consulting with several of Futurice Ltd‘s customers from the OEM business unit. He is currently driving rapid development in mobile Java and Android platforms. His interests include designs which adapt to multiple target platforms, high performance asynchronous message passing, mobile media and UX. Recent projects for European and the US customers keep Paul in touch with industry reality and how that varies by location, platform and viewer expectation. Paul has a diverse business and technical background including work in mobile operator, OEM, engineering and business analysis. He is co-founder of several technology-based firms.

Juha “Sumppi” Kaunisto

Sumppi is the co-founder of 2General Ltd, a consulting company specializing in startup service development. During the fifteen years of making the Internet a better place Sumppi has acquired a unique perspective on all parts of the process, from code to layout and beyond. At the moment he focuses on concept design, user experience design and client side development. On the mobile side of things Sumppi has designed and implemented the Eat.fi mobile site. The site innovatively also serves as the base for the iPhone application and S60 WRT widget. Furthermore, Sumppi almost had a WAP startup in 2000, just when the dotcom bubble burst, so the startup never got off the ground. Then again, neither did WAP.

Teemu Kurppa

Teemu Kurppa is a co-founder of  Huikea Experience, a startup focusing on social mobile games and related technologies. Huikea just released their first game Facetap – a fun casual game about your Facebook friends. With experience from both small startups and industry giants like Nokia and Google, Teemu has been developing mobile applications for 8 years. He was part of the founding team of Jaiku, a microblogging service that was sold to Google in 2007. User interaction – both design and development – excites him most. He feels that while on backend side of the service development, tools and practices have developed fast, developing compelling, easy to use user interfaces takes a major portion of the development time and needs much better tools. This is one area that Huikea is focusing on.

Lauri Piispanen

Lauri Piispanen is a lead software architect at Conmio Ltd, a company that enables their customers to achieve their mobile strategy. His team has delivered solutions to such high-profile clients as The New York Times, NPR, MTV3, dna, Blyk. Lauri engages daily with Conmio’s clients to distil requirements and wishes into workable solutions and recommendations that have since turned into common best practices throughout the mobile web. Pushing the envelope and venturing boldly into areas where no company has dared yet to go, Lauri and his team have been forced to act creatively and amass a bewildering spectrum of knowledge of the whole mobile web as a delivery channel: be it from recommended video codecs to “which browsers support div floats?” – and most importantly “how do we get around it?”.

Peter Vesterbacka

Peter is the founder of Some Bazaar, a new approach to building and growing new businesses. Prior to this Peter worked for HP in several communications industry related roles. While at HP Peter founded the HP Mobile E-Services Bazaar, a global innovation & corporate partnership program that BoozAllenHamilton declared an industry benchmark. Peter is also co-founder and the original initiator of MobileMonday.

Miika Virtanen

Miika is the Lead Technology Engineer at Rovio Mobile Ltd, a Finnish game development company specialized in mobile gaming. He’s responsible for the development of Rovio’s cross platform technology and works continuously with device manufactures and IHVs to make the mobile ecosystem a better place for gamers and developers. Recently he has been most active with Nokia’s native platforms and graphics acceleration. In the past he has also worked in various lead and supporting roles in game projects, totaling up to hundreds of millions of shipped copies

• Nokia – Qt, Symbian & Maemo
• Microsoft
• Android
• iPhone

The folks over at Nokia have “narrowed” their category down a little, in that the application must; use the Qt Module QNetwork, must have a social web integration and be based around the topic of “outside”.

For the other three categories, there are no specified limitations on what or how to build your entry.

• The best iPhone app as judged by Marko Karppinen will win an iPad (once they come out)
• The best Microsoft app as judged by Vesku will win a top end Samsung Windows Mobile phone.
• The best Android app as Judged by the folks from Comeks will win an Android handset.
• Again, Nokia are a little bit different, in that if you build the best Symbian App you will win an N97mini, the best Maemo app will win an N900, but if you build it as a cross platform app, you can win both. The judge(s) for the Nokia section of the competition will be in the Nokia Workshop room.

All the Judges will be easy to spot as we are going to give them nice bright name badges for the day.

The judges will be looking at (these have different weights and are in no specific order);-

• Newness of the idea (both in terms of your getting the idea and if it is similar to other existing applications)
• use of bleeding edge tech (the more blood and screaming the better!)
• time of day demo given (earlier on the day is better)
• implementation (flawless working demo/Proof of Concept)
• length of time spent coding on platform (less time is worth more points)
• general coding experience

NOTE: You do not need a physical handset to enter the competition (although if you do manage to deploy on one it will look better to the judges!)

In addition to the platform specific competitions there is an extra category that you can also be judged on, and that is for the “Business Potential” of the application. There is a separate prize for this.
This will be judged by Artturi Tarjanne of Nexit Ventures

On Saturday, either print out and bring a judging form with you, or collect one on the day.
Once your application is “ready”, find the appropriate judge and pitch them your app (should only take you one or two sentences and will be written on your sheet).
The Judge will then write a score for your application on the sheet and sign it.
Once that is done, bring the sheet to Mike in the main auditorium, you have until 17:00 on Saturday

So, those are the rules.
If you have any questions either post comment here or send us a message on Twitter @mobiledevcampfi

Oh, and in case you have forgotten, here are links for the posts that have links for getting started with the different platforms;
Qt and Maemo
Microsoft
Android
iPhone

For on the day, we have teamed up with the folks from FreeJamTV to get live streaming of the main stage on the day.
Check FreeJam.TV/live for the feed

Oh, and of course the Nokia folks are hanging out on #nokia_MDC on IRC as well

So, the rules of the competition are;

You have 48 hours to build an application for one of the four platforms;

• Nokia – Qt, Symbian & Maemo
• Microsoft
• Android
• iPhone

The folks over at Nokia have “narrowed” their category down a little, in that the application must; use the Qt Module QNetwork, must have a social web integration and be based around the topic of “outside”.

For the other three categories, there are no specified limitations on what or how to build your entry.

The best iPhone app as judged by Marko Karppinen will win an iPad (once they come out)
The best Microsoft app as judged by Vesku will win a top end Samsung Windows Mobile phone.
The best Android app as Judged by the folks from Comeks will win an Android handset.
Again, Nokia are a little bit different, in that if you build the best Symbian App you will win an N97mini, the best Maemo app will win an N900, but if you build it as a cross platform app, you can win both. The judge(s) for the Nokia section of the competition will be in the Nokia Workshop room.

All the Judges will be easy to spot as we are going to give them nice bright name badges for the day.

The judges will be looking at (these have different weights and are in no specific order);-

• Newness of the idea (both in terms of your getting the idea and if it is similar to other existing applications)
• use of bleeding edge tech (the more blood and screaming the better!)
• time of day demo given (earlier on the day is better)
• implementation (flawless working demo/Proof of Concept)
• length of time spent coding on platform (less time is worth more points)
• general coding experience

NOTE: You do not need a physical handset to enter the competition (although if you do manage to deploy on one it will look better to the judges!)

In addition to the platform specific competitions there is an extra category that you can also be judged on, and that is for the “Business Potential” of the application. There is a separate prize for this.
This will be judged by Artturi Tarjanne of Nexit Ventures

On Saturday, either print out and bring a judging form with you, or collect one on the day.
Once your application is “ready”, find the appropriate judge and pitch them your app (should only take you one or two sentences and will be written on your sheet).
The Judge will then write a score for your application on the sheet and sign it.
Once that is done, bring the sheet to Mike in the main auditorium, you have until 17:00 on Saturday

So, those are the rules.
If you have any questions either post comment here or send us a message on Twitter @mobiledevcampfi

Oh, and in case you have forgotten, here are links for the posts that have links for getting started with the different platforms;
Qt and Maemo
Microsoft
Android
iPhone

The main site is at Developer.android.com.

You can pull the SDK from here (please do this before coming to lighten the load on the network at the event!)

A good place to ask questions is on StackOverflow, but it is probably wise to at least read through the tutorials first (you can find them linked from here

First, the exact details will be announced next Thursday (25th February).

Second, we have manged to get top of the line phones for all but one of the competition categories, so go back and start checking out those getting started guides eh
The lone hold out category will have an iPad instead of a phone.

Start with Qt-development on Maemo5 by downloading the Qt SDK from here and then MADDE for your system (available for Windows, Linux & Mac OS X).
You can create, build and test your project in your native environment with the QtSDK.
With MADDE you can compile it for the device.

Again Forum Nokia has a ton of stuff available to help you get familiar with the environment through examples and courses on Qt for Maemo.

There is a strong community around Maemo and they can support you with your question, but be aware that there is loads of documentation out there already.
As Maemo is an open source project, a good source of help is on freenode IRC-channels #maemo, #qt-maemo and as it gets closer to the event #nokia_mdc.

There is also a wiki page specifically for MobileDevCamp.fi

Oh, and if you are scared of C++, Maemo also supports Python (but then you lose the cross platform comparability stuff, and you will see why that is so important next week!)
There is less offical pages around this, but from the Maemo Forums, here are a couple of threads that can work as getting started guides – Qt Designer/Python for Windows XP in 30 Mins and Qt4 Hello World in 30mins (from a rusty programmer).
A longer tutorial can be found at here

A one page overview of Qt can be found on Forum Nokia

Getting started guide is here

The latest Qt 4.6 brings full Symbian and Maemo support. In addition, there are a set of Qt API’s that offer key mobile platform features such as messaging, location, contacts are currently available but are labelled as Beta.
Visit the Forum Nokia wiki for tips and tricks (oh, and if you think of some add them there as well )

If you get stuck, there are always the Forum Nokia Discussion Boards for Qt.