Beginning Nokia Apps Development Qt and HTML5 for Symbian and MeeGo [Paperback]

While media buzz regularly circulates around iPhone and Android, Nokia still leads the pack in terms of world market share. Symbian, for instance, remains the most widely used mobile operating system. With Nokia's open development platform, the opportunities available for mobile developers to target this vastly popular operating system are abundant and clear.

• Use Qt to target both platforms: Symbian, the most widely used mobile operating system in the world, as well as MeeGo, the Intel/Nokia platform for mobile devices.
• Develop HTML5 applications for both Symbian and MeeGo platforms that will run with little modification on other mobile platforms.
• Novice developers learn the basics of Qt with a mobile slant, giving them the ability to target both desktop and mobile platforms.

Foreword Developers have been a key component of Nokias ecosystem since the first Symbian product launched nearly a decade ago. In the time since then, Symbian has risen to power the majority of the worlds smartphones, in no part due to the creativity and resourcefulness of you, the developers of mobile applications. Here at Forum Nokia, our goal has been and remains to empower you to create compelling and original applications for Nokias mobile telephones and computers. In the last decade weve offered developer solutions to you for Symbian, Series 40 in Java, Series 60, Maemo (now MeeGo) and Qt. Along the way, as we supported freedom of choice, weve occasionally inadvertently added to the number of platforms you must manage when developing for the diverse array of mobile devices on the market today. All of that has changed now with Qt. With Qt, Nokia promises that you need to write your application once, using QtQts libraries, C++, and Qt Meta-object Language (QML) if you chooseand target your application to all of Nokias smartphones and mobile computers running Symbian or MeeGo. Undlƒ$