Multimedia on Symbian OS
Inside the Convergence Device
The latest Symbian smartphones have extremely powerful multimedia capabilities. 'Multimedia on Symbian OS - Inside the Convergence Device' will help you harness that power to create innovative mobile multimedia experiences.
The text begins with a foreword and introduction to the trends that are shaping the mobile communications and media industries, along with the opportunities presented by the convergence of the two. There follows an explanation of the multimedia subsystem on Symbian OS v9, its architecture and the services it provides to C++ application developers.
The central chapters of the book provide a detailed look at the native APIs for accessing camera, video, audio, image manipulation and radio tuner functionality. The chapters walk you through the available interfaces with examples of typical usage. With the wide variety of smartphone hardware out there, as a developer, you need to know how to target multiple devices with different capabilities in a single application. Strategies for dealing with this complexity are highlighted throughout the book.
The Symbian OS v9 multimedia subsystem is extremely flexible and there are often multiple ways to achieve the same result. To help with difficult design decisions, the book concludes with a chapter on best practices - what to use when, why and how. Combining the insights and experience of subject experts within Symbian and top third-party developers, this book will be an invaluable reference for anyone working with multimedia on Symbian OS. This book is for you if you are:
- interested in multimedia application development on the world's leading smartphone platform
- a Symbian C++ application developer wanting to take full advantage of the platform's advanced multimedia capabilities
- working on the multimedia capabilities of the next generation of Symbian OS phones or middleware.
Book facts
- Author: Adi Rome and Mark Wilcox
- Published by John Wiley & Sons
- Publication date: October 2008
- 400 pages
- ISBN-10: 0470695072
