Nokia Asha SDK User Guide

This user guide is for Nokia Asha software platform SDK 1.0.

The Nokia Asha SDK provides a development environment for Java™ Platform, Micro Edition (Java™ ME) applications. The SDK allows you to test WML, XHTML, SMS, and MMS, develop and debug Java™ ME applications for use on Nokia mobile devices. The SDK includes Java APIs, an Emulator, Nokia IDE for Java ME (Eclipse), Nokia Asha On-device debugger tool, documentation (with examples MIDlets), and optional plug-ins. For more information, see About the SDK.

Note: There are some features that are not supported in this beta release of the Nokia Asha SDK 1.0. For the list of features that are not supported and for known issues, refer to Known issues and limitations section.

This guide describes how to use the SDK for application development using supported API's with IDE tools and simulations to test.

Target audience

This guide is intended for developers who want to create and test applications for mobile devices that conform to the Asha family of devices. To know about the devices that conform to Java Runtime for Nokia Asha software platform 1.0, refer to Device Specifications at Nokia Developer.

Where to start

What do you want to do?

Begin here

I want to know about the new features in SDK

What's New

I want to start using the SDK.

Getting Started

I want to learn about the API's that are supported in SDK

API's Supported

I want to learn how to creating and testing MIDlets.

Creating and testing MIDlets

I want to know the supported media content types.

Supported content types

I want to learn how to use the SDK for message content development.

Using the SDK for message content development

I want to learn how to run the SDK from a command line.

Running the SDK from a command line