When you decide to go for Symbian Application Development, you feel confused – How to start? Where to start from? To make you relax, we are presenting our ideas how and where can you start.
First of all you need to plan out for the Symbian Application Development. You need to identify your requirements, analyze them – Whether Symbian Application Development is perfect according to your requirement. After this, you need to analyze the available tools and technologies – Whether you have the required tools and technologies or you have to invest for them. If you don’t have enough tools and technologies, further you need to decide –Do you have enough budget for investment?
These are the basic things that you need to decide before starting with any application development. You can relate this with Symbian Application Development in the following ways:
- The First thing for Symbian Application Development, you have to decide the target – on which platform you want to run the application. You want to run the application on Nokia or Sony-Ericsson smartphones. If you want to run the application on Nokia, you also need to identifyfor which series you are developing application – series 60 or 80 or so on. After identifying the target, you have to prepare specifications for the target. For example, In specification for Nokia series 80 – you have to decide about screen resolution, keyboard, touch screen etc. At the end of this step, you’ll find out the platform for which you’ll start developing the application
- After selecting the platform, you have to select the development tools. For example, which SDK or IDE you should use. For example, Visual c++, Carbide.c++, or Metrowerks CodeWarrior. You can select the best environment based on the selected platform or available tools and technologies.
- After deciding the development environment, you need to decide the configuration for your computer depending on the development environment.
Once you have done with the above phases, you can install the SDK or IDE on the system and start Symbian Application Development.
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