Qt is a mature development framework that allows developers to build cross platform applications for Windows, Linux and Mac. Nokia announced that Qt will be available on S60 (symbian) phones soon. This could make it easy to port a lot of already existing software to symbian phones. In my opinion this could make developing for nokia phones more interesting again and maybe fill up ovi store with lots of good apps soon … more info on Qt on: http://qt.nokia.com/

Adobe anounces a new flash player version, that could be a way to develop mobile apps for all platforms. Versions for android or symbian OS are estimated for the beginning of 2010. Beta versions are already available for testing … It is part of the “Open Screen Project” where also google is a partner since a short while.

We will be testing it to check if this could be “the future” for mobile development …

You are thinking of your first app for android or iPhone? And you don’t know where to start, how to start or even if it’s worth it to start at all? We were facing this question for a while now – and we think that the time has come to start developing apps for mobile devices. But where should you start? What are the pros and cons for android, iphone and symbian? Where can you make the most money? What is the future? Or can you just use J2ME and run your app on all platforms? Where can you find the best tutorials, which is the best IDE? Do you need dozens of differnt devices to test your app on? How can you bring your app to the app-stores or to partners like jamba? How much time will it take you to build your first tool or even a game that anyone would buy?

In the next weeks and months we are going to answer all these questions in our “Become a mobile developer howto” …