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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

creating symbian apps with QT is easy

I have a Nokia 5230 and i installed Nokia Qt SDK 1.1 after installing Qt I have noticed that making apps with Qt is simple Nokia has a great article on it in their getting started section which is here
but  here is the short version

Requirments

# Nokia ovi suite installed on PC, QT SDK
# Nokia s60v5 phone with USB data cable

How to

1. Connect your phone to PC,open ovi suite and qt creator
2. In Qt choose a project to open
3. In the Project Setup, choose Qt 4.7.3 for Symbian 3 as a target, as well as the Simulator
4. Build the project and run in the simulator – good to make sure there are no errors before trying it with
    phone for the first time
5. From the Start Menu in the Qt SDK folder  run Install Qt 4.7.3 to Symbian 3 device this will run in
    Ovi    Suite or PC Suite at first the installation will be completed on the device.  You may also want to run
    Install TRK (Debug Agent) to  Symbian s60v5 device
6In Qt Creator go to the Project tab view, and choose Build under Symbian Device – make sure and
        check that it says Qt 4.7.3 for Symbian 3 (Qt SDK) in the Qt Version drop down.
7. Go to the run tab and confirm that Device On Serial Port: shows there is a device on the COM port,
     and Create Self Signed Package is selected in the Create SIS Package section
8. Go back to the editor view – in the build target selector, make sure that Symbian Device is selected. Build
     the project
9. Run the project – it will run on the phone and also install a shortcut in your menu for you.

Downloads

Beginning Nokia apps development PDF eBook(5.5mb)  Download
Qt SDK v1.1 FULL for windows (1.7GB) Download


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