Developing for symbian

by **egarayblas** » Dec 29, 2003 @ 12:38pm

Hi,

I know I can find these info by doing a few research over the net but I'll be more confident if I hear it from those who have experience. I hope you can share this w/ me.

I'm looking at porting my games to symbian and investing on a device. Question is, should I be better off buying a p800 or the p900? Will my gapidraw based game for the p800 also work for the p900?

Does the N6600 (shown on gapidraw.com as Johan's test unit) have the same symbian OS version as the N-GAGE? Does this mean, if I port over to N6600, it will work on the N-GAGE?

Thanks a lot in advance and a happy new year!

by **jonasb** » Dec 30, 2003 @ 5:22pm

by **ppcStudios** » Dec 30, 2003 @ 9:53pm

by **egarayblas** » Dec 31, 2003 @ 12:54am

by **egarayblas** » Feb 4, 2004 @ 3:23pm

jonasb: I'm reviving this old thread I made way back to ask a few more questions about Symbian and GD. This is my first time programming for symbian and I would just like to clarify a few things. If I wish to target Nokia phone models 3650, 7650 and 6600, what version of Symbian SDK should I use if (my IDE is Visual Studio)? From this link...

It mentions that the n6600 is version 2.0 while 3650 and 7650 are both v1.2. Does that mean I have to download both v1.2 and 2.0 SDKs in order to support all those models? Sorry I needed to confirm this first because from this link...

Both are like 100+MB downloads and I'm on dial up.

So I needed to make sure at least I'm downloading the correct files.

Thanks!

- Erick

by **ruis** » Feb 4, 2004 @ 4:00pm

hello there,

I've got version 1.2 of the SDK installed and have compiled and tested all example applications on 3650/7650/N-Gage and the 6600 and they work on all devices.

There are of course some new stuff included in the 2.0 SDK and if you wan't to use some of these, you can end up breaking backwards compatibility with the older phones.

You can read more about these things here if you are interested:

//Erik

by **warmi** » Feb 4, 2004 @ 11:35pm

by **egarayblas** » Feb 5, 2004 @ 12:27am

by **ruis** » Feb 5, 2004 @ 3:25pm

I gave CodeWarrior a try but I haven't used it that much that I can really give an honest opinion on whether it's better or worse than VC. I ended up using VC just as my editor and made all the builds from the command line. It actually works quite nice when you get used to it.

I think there is a 15 days trial version of CodeWarrior for symbian for download at metrowerks site, but I'm note sure. It could be worth investigating so you can try it out for yourself.

//Erik