Wht all SDK & other things required

[kammaldeep]

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helloo all ,
i m new to mobile application infact i have not started it ...........
i purchased a mobile n6600 jst three weeks ago ...& when i searched net for applications & games to my shock i found N number of these .........

so i have a bug of makin a application or a games for my phone ...

as per i hhave searched there r a few SDK's u rrequire .....as i m new so i dont know much of this ..........
i have downloaded SDK for nokia s 60 series from symbian.com
now i dont know wht other things r required ....

plz ... professionls, mods, admin ....help me out
list me all the SDK's or anyother thing that is required so that i start makin applications or games & share with u guys ....

i have also started makin themes...& i think within 2-3 weeks i will b able 2 make good themes ...even better that wht i m makin today....

help me out
thnks

[symbianyucca]

for the 6600 phone, I would use the 2.1 SDK. You also need IDE for development purposes. You could use Metrowerks codewarrior, Borland C-Builder or MS VC. From this forum you should be able to find atleast codewarrior that has 90 days trial version. If I remember right borland also has trial versions, so you could try both and see which one you would prefer.

yucca

[petrib]

The 6600 is a 2.0 device, so a 2.1 app (compiled using the 2.1 SDK) might already have differences that do not work on a 2.0 phone.

2.0 = S60 2nd (second) Edition
2.1 = S60 2nd Edition, Feature Pack 1 (FP1)

[symbianyucca]

While writing the last post, I was 100% sure somebody will come up with that sort of reply... anyway, I don't really see point on using 2.0 SDK, since I haven't really ever seen any problems using it with 6600 sofar, so that's the reason I stated that "I would use the 2.1 SDK", of course people can have opinions and would really like to hear if anybody have had really some problems when using 2.1 with 6600, so maybe I could change my opinion on the issue.

yucca

[kammaldeep]

for the 6600 phone, I would use the 2.1 SDK.

i dont have 2.0 or 2.1 SDK ....canu plz provide me link for both

You also need IDE for development purposes.

Wht exactly is this

You could use Metrowerks codewarrior, Borland C-Builder or MS VC. From this forum you should be able to find atleast codewarrior that has 90 days trial version. If I remember right borland also has trial versions, so you could try both and see which one you would prefer.

yucca

i have MS visual c++...will this work ...or shld i go for borlandc or MS VC ..only .....

ad wht is this Metrowerks ....

[petrib]

The SDK download links on http://forum.nokia.com/series60

IDE = Integrated Development Environment (editor, debugger, build tools, etc.) = software such as Microsoft Visual Studio, CodeWarrior, Borland BuilderX, Eclipse, etc.

For CodeWarrior, see http://www.nokia.com/codewarrior

While using the 2.1 SDK for 6600 may work very well, and probably does, there is always a risk involved (you may inadvertedly write the code to rely on calls or behaviour that only works on 2.1 and not on 2.0 and then end up wasting time tracking down issues you wouldn't have ended up with in the first place). I have no practical advise of what exactly they would/could be in the case of 2.1 vs. 2.0, but the 2.1 SDK documentation/release notes probably points out some of them.