subject: Mobile Applications Development. [print this page] While supplying phones with the ability to launch applications, vendors come to think about the need to support developers.Typically, the Internet resources with useful information for developers are used in this case.As a rule, the use of these resources is free, you only need to register on the site.One of the first companies that provided information for developers on-line, was Nokia.However, some companies, for example LG, still don"t have anything like that (at least in English).
Nokia
The largest and oldest player in the mobile content market. The company began to provide Its first products for developers a long time ago, it was creating and developing forum.nokia.com - portal on the issues of programming for mobile phones in general and for Nokia in particular.It contains a lot of information about technologies such as WAP, SMS / MMS (and messaging in a broad sense), J2ME, Symbian, and so on.Also, there are technical and marketing information, examples of each technology, educational articles and materials about the global mobile industry.There are a lot of interesting and useful information not only for programmers, but also for artists, and even the game designers.Nokia is paying great attention to quality of products for their mobile phones, many of its theses are debatable, but anyway it is interesting.Style-guide representes nicely the principles and approaches, which are used in creation of games and applications.
The portal is a forum with discussions on specific branches of technology.Looking around in the archives, you can easily find answers to any questions arising in the course of work on products for the Nokia platform.
The portal contains a huge section on the SDK and emulators for each key technology, promoted by the company.
Registration on the site and access to all kinds of mobile development services for Nokia phones are absolutely free, so you can easily join it!
SonyEricsson
SonyEricsson is famous for its culture of good work with the developers.Its web site for developers "" is an excellent example of the information resource, which is balanced in all respects.There you will find lots of useful information about development tools, phones, quality assurance testing and related technologies such as WAP and SMS.Also, within the developer support program, you can access (unfortunately not free) to the new phone models that have not yet submitted to the stores.There are a lot of materials on the site, which are oriented on the 3D (JSR-184).Plus there are regular contests and a sensible forum for developers.
Siemens
Portal for Siemens developers does not possess the originality, but it provides all the necessary information that may be needed by new developers.The site is constantly updated.
There are a lot of other mobile phones companies, but here we will finish the part devoted to programming technologies in the mobile world and handset manufacturers.
