One problem with Symbian OS mobile development is that it’s often difficult to get started. There’s no shortage of documentation but it tends to be incomplete, distributed over many places and covers previous OS versions which can be confusing.

Documentation tends to be created by technical authors who haven’t really used the tools for real development. You get the facts but you often don’t get any reasoning and background as to why things are like they are. Also, you don’t get workarounds for bugs and gotchas that can often waste a lot of time and even cause some people to give up.

Last year, Sony Ericsson commissioned me to produce a consistent set of ‘getting started’ tutorials for Sony Ericsson Developer World. The first tutorial on the UIQ platform has just been published. It describes where UIQ fits in the Symbian OS ecosystem, some reasons why you might develop for it and the fundamentals of designing a new UIQ 3 application.

In the coming months there will be further tutorials on setting up a development environment, application integrity/security, coding, releasing applications and application distribution.

Sony Ericsson very recently become the 3rd largest phone vendor and is increasingly using Sony brands (e.g. Walkman) on UIQ based products. Hence, now is a great time to consider UIQ development.

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