What the hell happen to symbian software development?

Symbian application development is dead? Read this forum to found out the answer. You can use netbean as a tool for symbian app development. You need to download J2ME or JAVA ME or QT tools.

It is a bit outdated to use symbian mobile application development or WTK 2.5.2. The Sun Java Wireless Toolkit implements impressive capabilities which are exposed through standard APIs. The APIs are defined through the Java Community Process (JCP):

• Mobile Service Architecture (JSR 248)
  Java Technology for the Wireless Industry (JTWI) (JSR 185)
  Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC) 1.1 (JSR 139)
  Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) 2.0 (JSR 118)
  PDA Optional Packages for the J2ME Platform (JSR 75)
  Java APIs for Bluetooth (JSR 82)
  Mobile Media API (MMAPI) (JSR 135)
  J2ME Web Services Specification (JSR 172)
  Security and Trust Services API for J2ME (JSR 177)
  Location API for J2ME (JSR 179)
  SIP API for J2ME (JSR 180)
  Mobile 3D Graphics API for J2ME (JSR 184)
  Wireless Messaging API (WMA) 2.0 (JSR 205)
  Content Handler API (JSR 211)
  Scalable 2D Vector Graphics API for J2ME (JSR 226)
  Payment API (JSR 229)
  Advanced Multimedia Supplements (JSR 234)
  Mobile Internationalization API (JSR 238)
  Java Binding for the OpenGL(R) ES API (JSR 239)

Symbian is popular for game development and almost many nokia, sony erricson, samsung, LG phone are using Java based application before. The jar size application is usually below 1MB. This is because flash memory is expensive 5 years ago and symbian java development works perfectly in the last century.

It still worth it to learn about symbian development tutorial because there still some user who use older generation phone. What you need is a symbian development tools with symbian os development (Windows/Linux/Mac). You need to learn symbian applications development and download symbian s60 development toolkit or QT tools.

It is good to learn symbian apps development and read symbian application development tutorial. It is just like a memory lane. Symbian os application development is a bit outdate but it is still useful especially if you came from C++ or Java background.