symbian learning

Question

Hi,

I am very new to this Symbian C++. I want to learn the symbianc++ very clearly and keenly.Could you please refer the book for me? Which is the efficient book for learning Symbian C++.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Hi,

there are plenty of titles. The best is "Symbian C++ Explained" from Jo Stichbury. It is not the newest one, but all information here are still valid. It was announced that there will be a 2nd edition, but it was never published...

Then there are two titles of similar quality (you should have at least one of those) Developing Software for Symbian OS 2nd Edition and Symbian OS C++ for Mobile Phones.

As a quick reference guide is good the title The Accredited Symbian Developer Primer

I have read all those books and they are all really good.

As you might notice starting approx. from Symbian^1 (but Qt is available from also on for older OS versions) there is also growing support for Qt and since Symbian^4 the Qt will be the only way how to create UI, so it might be good to start looking also on some Qt book. There is one related to Symbian mobile development called Qt on Symbian.

I think it is enough reading for at least year:))

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