SCN January 2007
Bringing the Symbian developer community the latest news and resources for Symbian OS.
In this edition
Mobile World Congress 2008 - Barcelona Sybase M-Business Anywhere comes to S60 Win prizes in Chinese forums competitions New paper: Runtime environments - Part four New article: Runtimes hub New paper: Introduction to IMS New paper: Using & extending Symbian OS Notifiers Games on Symbian New translated booklets in Russian, Korean and Japanese New booklet: Coding Standards - coming soon! Updated booklet: Coding Tips Symbian Developer Library feedback Symbian training courses Partner and community updates - Forum Nokia Partner and community updates - UIQ
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Mobile World Congress 2008 - Barcelona (formerly 3GSM)
The entire mobile industry is booking its tickets to Barcelona and preparing for a truly spectacular show. With over 52,000 visitors last year, the Fira will no doubt be packed once again with key industry players showcasing the latest technology, networking and planning the mobile vision of the future. Located in Hall 8 (Stand 8A8 77) the Symbian stand is your first port of call to engage with the Symbian Developer, Partnering and Product teams. .
Find out moreSybase M-Business Anywhere comes to S60
The volume of Symbian devices shipped is driving enterprises to look for ways to bring them under the corporate umbrella. Richard Bloor talks to Yadong Liu, Senior Product Manager, Sybase about the introduction of M-Business Anywhere for Symbian.
Find out moreWin P1c and Bluetooth accessories in Chinese forums competitions
Sony Ericsson Developer World has extended the services offered in the Chinese language to include moderated discussion forums, more Docs & Tools for download, news articles, a RSS feed, go-to-market information and membership services. To celebrate the launch of three new Chinese-language discussion forums, Chinese Community members registering until the end of January who participate in the Chinese forums are eligible to win a P1c (for the best contribution) and Bluetooth accessories.
Find out moreNew on SDN
New paper: Runtime Environments - Part four
This is the fourth and final instalment of Mobile Runtime Environments by Roy Ben Hayun, the series of papers that gives developers, technical leaders and technical decision-makers an insight into the various Runtime Environments available for Symbian OS. The focus of this article is the future of mobile Runtime Environments – what should the mobile Runtime Environment of the future be able to do for the phone user and how will the developer make that happen.
Read the paperNew article: Runtimes Hub
With the completion of Roy Ben Hayun's Runtime Environments series of papers, this round-up collects together some links for those interested in downloading the runtimes or investigating them further
Read the articleNew paper: Introduction to IMS
This is the first of a pair of white papers, intended as an introduction to IMS from a smartphone developer’s perspective. The papers will not contain a deep technical explanation of the network side of IMS, instead focusing on the interaction between end-user devices and the rest of IMS. This white paper gives an overview of IMS and two of its most important protocols, SIP and SDP. The second part will cover some of the practicalities of development on Symbian OS smartphones using SIP and SDP.
Read the paperNew paper: Using & extending Symbian OS Notifiers
This paper describes mechanisms that you can use to display user notifications and prompts when your code does not include a full GUI environment; for example if you’re writing a server or engine code.
Read the paper and download the source codeNew book: Games on Symbian OS - coming soon!
This book shows the potential for creating mobile games for Symbian smartphones such as S60 3rd Edition, UIQ 3 or FOMA devices. It covers various aspects of mobile games on Symbian OS, with contributions from a number of experts in the mobile games industry.
Find out moreNew translated booklets in Russian, Korean and Japanese
Symbian Press are delighted to publish, for the first time, Russian, Korean and Japanese translations of our popular Getting Started booklet
Find out moreNew booklet: Coding Standards - coming soon!
This booklet is a new addition to the Essential Symbian OS series. It lists the guidelines used by Symbian developers in code reviews, and divides them into categories such as construction and destruction, class design, exception handling and memory management.
Updated booklet: Coding Tips
The third edition of this booklet gathers together some useful hints, tips and links which developers can use to produce reliable Symbian OS applications.
Read the bookletSymbian Developer Library feedback
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Complete the feedback formSymbian training courses
At Symbian we are constantly working to help the developer community upgrade and improve their Symbian OS skills by offering new and improved training courses
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Forum Nokia
Nominate yourself or a colleague to become a Forum Nokia Champion!
The Forum Nokia Champion program is a reward and recognition program that honours individual developers for their contributions to Forum Nokia and the mobile industry. The elite few chosen for this distinction are selected for their extensive knowledge of Nokia platforms and related technologies and applications, as well as for the extent of their participation in the Forum Nokia community.
Find out moreGet started with Near Field Communication development
NFC technology, based on short-range wireless connectivity, offers exciting opportunities for developers and consumers alike. NFC is activated when two compatible devices or tags touch or are brought near each other. For developers, the Nokia 6131 NFC device offers new opportunities, including payment and ticketing applications, access to existing services saved as service shortcuts in NFC tags, and peer-to-peer applications that enable communications between two devices.
Find out moreNokia PC Suite Connectivity API 3.2
The Nokia PC Connectivity API (PCCAPI) enables application developers to add PC connectivity capabilities to devices based on S60 2nd Edition and S60 3rd Edition; and Series 80 devices (the Nokia 9300 Communicator and Nokia 9500 Communicator), where they are supported by the Nokia PC Suite.
Find out moreUIQ
Porting: instant gratification on UIQ 3 (interview)
Lars Persson – using the pseudonym of AnotherGuest – is the popular and prolific porter of applications, mostly games, to UIQ 3. In an interview with Richard Bloor of SymbianOne.com, Lars reveals his motivation and method and wonders why there are not more developers porting applications to UIQ 3. Lars presents his porting process and the use of P.I.P.S. on UIQ 3, in the hope of making porting easy for every developer.
Find out how easy it is to port to UIQ 3Get the presentations from the UIQ Developer Fast Track event in Budapest
The slides of the sessions presented at the UIQ Developer Fast Track event in Budapest are available online on the UIQ Fast Track mini site.
Download the slidesJava ME on-device debugging for P1 and W960
The latest release of the Sony Ericsson SDK for the Java ME platform introduces on-device debugging for the Sony Ericsson P1 and W960 UIQ 3-based phones. It includes the Java Debug Agent (JavaDebugAgent.SIS) which must be deployed onto the phones and provides the debugging functionality.
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