SE Devs suport also says goodbye to UIQ, urges devs to start using S60 v5
This was posted yesterday:
Probably you have heard the exciting announcements made at the Symbian Smartphone Show on 21 October, 2008. We at Sony Ericsson Developer World are excited about what this will mean for our developer community.
From all the news coming now about this, I think that there are a question that are most important for you as third-party developers. I will try to answer it here.
Which software platform will Sony Ericsson base their Open phones on in the future and hence which SDK should you as a third-party developer base your development on? The straightforward answer is the Symbian Foundation platform where we are a founding member of the foundation. But as you all know the Symbian Foundation is not a reality yet and you probably want to know which SDK to use and what to convert your UIQ apps to. In the meantime, you should use Symbian/S60 5th edition as this will be compatible with the upcoming Symbian Foundation platform.
As you all know we cannot communicate anything about upcoming products. But we are committed to giving you the information as soon as we can, so please tune in to Developer World from time to time to check for the latest news.
We hope these answers will give you some peace of mind so you could focus on the great apps that we know you can create!
In case of applications for the G700/G900 and older SymbianOS based phones the UIQ developer site offers the latest SDK material:
http://developer.uiq.com/
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The only thing that is driving me crazy is the stupid UIQ.com website and the stupid Ad of “Something is about to surface from our labs”!!!!!!!
It seems nothing from their labs will ever sea the light.
Regards,
Thanks for this clear answer SE!
T_T . Hiks hiks
Ditch the “coloring book” look of S60, retain the elegance of UIQ and I shall consider a SE SF handset in future
UIQ is dead, God save UIQ!
A word to Ares and everyone at the UIQ Evangelist. Hats off to you stalwart UIQ guardians! You guys deserve much much more for guiding us users into the gentle night
It seems nothing from their labs will ever sea the light.
Zombies rising out of the UIQ swamp?
lantau, tks man
i say, release UIQ has open source, and people will make it the best GUI ever
You+re welcome, Ares. Oh btw, it’s tks gurl
i’m a she.
Oct 24th, 2008 at 3:00 am
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