Nokia on Wednesday released version 1.0 of the Symbian^3 software development kit (SDK). With it, third party developers can create apps for the OS, which is used in the company's flagship N8, which debuted more than a year ago, as well as the C6, C7, E6 and E7, among others. Included in the SDK is documentation, API references, examples, an installer for ActivePerl and an emulator, but not an IDE for a simplified development environment.
The final version includes VGA resolution support for the E6 pro phone and support for the Qt 4.7 and Qt Mobility 1.1 programming interfaces. The browser has been updated to version 7.3.1.1. A Three Plane Comms architecture improves data flow performance. Added Symbian standards include OpenWF support, SQLite 3, XML parsing and more. Korean and Chinese languages are present as well.
Supported runtimes include both Nokia's multi-platform Qt as well as native Symbian C++, in-between Java technology, and Web Runtime (WRT).