Nokia Pakistan recently conducted a Nokia
Developers’ Workshop at University of Karachi in partnership with P@SHA, which
aimed at providing students an insight into the world of mobile app development
and the rise in demand of apps in the local market. The workshop focused on inculcating
app development skills for the S40 Full Touch devices.
The training was imparted by Syed Faraz Ahmed,
Senior Engagement Manager, Lakson Business Solutions. On the occasion of the
successful completion of the workshop, Faraz said, “It was wonderful to
interact with such enthusiastic students and share with them the S40 background
and provide hands-on training on the SDK LWUIT 2.0 available to work on mobile
apps for S40 Full Touch platform. The students clearly understood why it will
be beneficial for them and their community to contribute towards content
development and they all took keen interest in the workshop.”
Expressing her views, Rabia Azfar Nizami, Head DX,
Near East, NOKIA said, “I appreciate the interest level of Karachi University’s
UBIT students to learn and excel in their chosen field. Nokia has been
organizing these kinds of workshops for developers in Pakistan since the past
few years and this workshop was geared towards channelizing the strengths of
these students and providing them a rich bundle of resources to develop more
locally relevant mobile apps for Nokia devices which are most popular among the
masses in our country. Recently, the Nokia App Store witnessed more than two
million downloads of localized content and apps per week in Pakistan, which has
given rise to the need for developers to make apps and generate revenue that
cater to this segment of the market.”
The students were enthusiastic about learning hands on
skills from a professional mentor and showed their interest towards the
development of local content for the Nokia Store. At the workshop’s conclusion,
certificates were distributed among all the participants.
