Getting Started

[Guest Psi_Man]

Hi there,

I was wondering what it takes to become a developer for smart phones. What programming languages would i need to learn? where's a good place to start? and is it hard to break into the industry?

any help with this would be greatly appreciated

thanks

Psi

[Guest drblow]

Hello m8! Welcome to the forum.

Have a look in the developers section. As far as I know you need C++, but I don't know much! :wink:

[Guest philipnorth]

well, you can check out microsoft's smartphone site, it has a nice SDK especially for pocket pc+smartphone.

If it's easy to get in the industry? I dont know, its a booming business, so there are some chances, but it all depends on yourself in the end.

Most used languages are c++ I believe, also some VB. I'm gonna look into this myself as well, need to take some more "paid-by-the-boss-courses" :D

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/default.mspx is a good place to start I'd say

here you can find some downloads for smartphones for developers:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/res...ne/default.mspx

The always necessary white papers:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/res...rs/default.mspx

Hope this helps you a bit ;)

Good luck programming!

[Guest Richie M]

Just to clear some confusion here;

All development for programs running on the Smartphone 2002 platform is in C++, there is no support for VB. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&DisplayLang=en

If you wish to develop for the forthcoming Windows Mobile 2003 Smartphone Edition, this support .NET Compact Framework (CF, VB.NET, C# & C++ i believe) http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/library/defa...mobilesmart.asp

Microsofts _FAQ_ is http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default....l/devmobfaq.asp

[Guest philipnorth]

my mistake on the VB ;)

sorry bout that, guess I had SP2003 in mind :D