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chamak
Joined: Jan 05, 2006
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Hello all UIQ 3 / Symbian Programmers...
Have been thinking of programming on UIQ 3 devices lately. So went through the sites, developer.uiq.com, developer.sonyericsson.com etc. But couldn't get a lead where to start. Now, i've been a programmer of Symbian 7, S60 a loooooooooooooooooooooooog ago (around 3 yrs now! i guess) and i found my existing knowledge insufficient to work with anymore and too much blurred out. So I want to start over from scratch. I just love programming for fun. Could somebody help me out with these queries?::
1. Book(s) for Learning Symbian 9
2. Book(s) for Learning UIQ3
3. Your IDE of choice
4. A dedicated UIQ3 developers forum other then developers.uiq.com u think worth mentioning.
Thanks for your time 
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chamak
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No programmer here ? 
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Zed@CPS
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All your questions are answered in detail on the two web sites you mention. Use their search and forum.
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Mizzle
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http://books.uiq.com/index.php/Main_Page is excellent!
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chamak
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Thanks Mizzle for your reply. That's a really good link u've given. So, which compilter do you like most?
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Nipsen
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..I tried to use Carbide. But because of some licensing problem (apparently it's free, but it's not free for personal use after all..?), or maybe something else, it won't compile code for anything else than the emulator.. But it's a nice IDE - even if any other one works fine for editing the code, and running the command tools through some script or other, like I did. It's supposed to compile, package and sign a sis- file for you, though. So.. I guess it's nice if you get it to work..
Um. There are few resources out there, so you'll have to look at code- examples, and beg for help online if you want to find the right functions. There are no opengl ES tutorials, and no way to really know the possibilities for drawing gl- views that are not fullscreen. The powerVR SDK is a waste of time, not in the least because you have to sign up to the "powerVR insider", and have your account deleted unless you accept their personalised Apple- advertisements with grace and eternal gratitude - and the download on sonyericsson.com are the same files. The UIQ emulator won't launch or run the powerVR instruction set, apparently because of some licensing issue. So in general you'd need to use the header- files for openGLES 1.2, and compile the code for whatever other OS you're running if you want to test the code off the device. Irritating in the extreme. (I recommend the tutorials over here: nehe.gamedev.net if you want to learn opengl, btw).
But hey - every UIQ developer around is just gushing at the thought of sharing their trade- secrets. So any UIQ menu and UIQ view lore not described in the concept- tutorials is obviously not a problem to get your hands on at all. Which is good, considering the pretty high bar for getting the hang of it, and of course the incredibly wide and non- niche at all menu- system we're dealing with here. (Really, I wonder why I thought of OpenGL, and how that was when I tried to learn when I got a 3dfx card a while back.. no idea at all).
To quote another developer: "I've switched my efforts to java".
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Supa_Fly
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On 2008-04-14 19:16:14, chamak wrote:
Hello all UIQ 3 / Symbian Programmers...
Have been thinking of programming on UIQ 3 devices lately. So went through the sites, developer.uiq.com, developer.sonyericsson.com etc. But couldn't get a lead where to start. Now, i've been a programmer of Symbian 7, S60 a loooooooooooooooooooooooog ago (around 3 yrs now! i guess) and i found my existing knowledge insufficient to work with anymore and too much blurred out. So I want to start over from scratch. I just love programming for fun. Could somebody help me out with these queries?::
1. Book(s) for Learning Symbian 9
2. Book(s) for Learning UIQ3
3. Your IDE of choice
4. A dedicated UIQ3 developers forum other then developers.uiq.com u think worth mentioning.
Thanks for your time
I'd like to THANK YOU for your interest in programming for UIQ3!
I'm sure MANY ppl on here will be greatful, as there are more 'users' of UIQ3 here than coders. You may encounter a few more here if you get crafty with searching.
I'm seriously hoping you've got a few tricky and nifty apps in mind to bring to the market! If more developers take interest, then it would be cool to see a thread or forum space that could be helpful ... even a influx of ideas coming from users that have lacking performance of existing apps or new apps that their craving for.
Cheers and god speed on your adventure.
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kerrnone
Joined: Apr 15, 2008
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Hi,
1) For a symbian refresher, "Symbian OS Explained" is pretty readable.
2) For an intro to UIQ there is a nice white paper on "hello world" and "hello world gui App", which you should be able to find on the uiq developer site.
3) IDE wise, It's seems to be pretty standard to use CodeWarrior but Carbide seems to be the coming thing. I haven't tried but if Carbide can do it, surely Eclipse can be adapted. Otherwise there is always the command line.
I personally just use Emacs and the Symbian build tools, but I don't develop, I just debug. |
chamak
Joined: Jan 05, 2006
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Thanks to all of you for your support .
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Access the forum with a mobile phone via esato.mobi
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Posted: 2008-04-14 19:16
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