Beginning Nokia Apps Development : Qt and HTML5 for Symbian and MeeGo

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 Qt--Qts libraries, C++, and Qt Meta-object Language (QML) if you choose--and target your application to all of Nokias smartphones and mobile computers running Symbian or MeeGo. Understanding that many of you have existing or new applications written using HTML5, we also support an HTML5-compliant mobile browser to support the latest web applications running within the browser, giving you another path to your customers.