Welcome to Symbian tutorial
You will find all information (with tips and tricks) that you need to start Symbian OS programming. Making a program for your own mobile device is fun. You can create an application (personal or commercial) and put it in your device and see that it works. However making application for handsets compared to PC (for example) a bit different. Now a days handset manufacturers or different vendors are providing so nice and easy to use tools so that it is very easy to develop an application.
At the end of each tutorial page, we have download section from where you can download example, source code, pdf document file etc. If you read the tutorial one time and compile the example and run it in emulator we are confident that you have learned the topics.
Following picture show a shortcut diagram. If you are new in Symbian then please browse all in order, Let's start.
- Symbian related tools that you need before start
- Test your installed Carbide by using Carbide UI
- Test your installed compiler by command line
- Details about Symbian programming
- Putting application to Phone
You will know source, download and installation of Symbian tools
By following this link, you know if your carbide works OK or not
If you have tested the tools by carbide UI then this may not necessary but many times it can be very handy to use command line, this section describes how you use command line.
Know how to make program for Symbian with details. For simple application you may not need to know all these.
How to create application for real phone and installing it to phone