Introduction to the application development

This section provides a brief introduction to the application development scenario on the latest Symbian platform release.

You can develop the user interface for your application with Qt but some mobile technologies are not yet supported by Qt modules. In these cases you will need to use Symbian C++ APIs in order to implement that functionality.

The following technologies are not yet supported by standard Qt modules so you will need to use Symbian C++ APIs for them:

Telephony for making phone calls and checking the call status. See Telephony.
Bluetooth for short distance wireless data connections. See Bluetooth.
Digital Rights Management for protecting your content. See Digital Rights Management.
OpenSSL for cryptography features. See OpenSSL.

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Application architecture
When you design a Qt application for Symbian devices you must make various design decisions such as what technology to use for the user interface and what kind of services your application will make available to other applications.
Mobile application technologies
Qt Mobility 1.1 and the Symbian platform provide a choice of APIs for creating mobile applications. This section describes the APIs and provides links to more information about the Symbian platform.
Creating an application using both Qt and Symbian C++
Most mobile technologies are covered by standard Qt modules but there are some technologies where you will need to use Symbian C++ APIs. When you use the Symbian C++ APIs, you need will need to translate between Symbian data types and mechanisms and the corresponding Qt data types and mechanisms.
Creating application help for Symbian applications
Internationalization (i18n) and localization (L10n) guide for application developers
Language variants can increase your sales in different parts of the world. To make them, you need to localize, and possibly also internationalize your software.