Programming PC Connectivity Applications for Symbian OS
Smartphone Synchronization and Connectivity for Enterprise and Application Developers
This book explains how integrate Symbian OS applications with a desktop PC, and desktop PC applications with a Symbian OS smartphone.
Programming PC Connectivity Applications for Symbian OS is designed to enable Symbian OS applications to be integrated with desktop PCs, and for mobility to be added to Windows PC applications by integrating them with Symbian OS smartphones. It will help you to create PC connectivity applications, based on standard services and APIs, purely by programming on the PC and also to create more specialized applications that involve programming on the Symbian OS smartphone as well as on the PC.
This book will teach readers how to improve Symbian OS applications’ usability by integrating them with a PC. For instance, applications could support a user interface on the PC when the Symbian OS smartphone is connected, or applications could store or archive data on the PC. Alternatively readers could use this book to improve Windows PC applications by integrating them with Symbian OS smartphones. This has been considered difficult and expensive, but, with the information in this book, it can be straightforward. You may be surprised at the quality of integration you can achieve just by creating PC software – for example, you could manage media files such as image, audio and video files just by using the APIs described in Chapters 4 and 5. If your application is more specialized then a small amount of Symbian OS programming may give you a unique service that increases its attractiveness (and therefore its sales).
All the examples are of stand-alone PC connectivity applications, but this is by no means the only way to create PC connectivity applications. This book also shows you how to create:
- a file browser that will provide a convenient user interface to the filing system on Symbian OS smartphones
- an application to read SMS messages on the smartphone and to send such messages by means of the smartphone
- applications to directly read and modify the Contacts and Agenda data on the smartphone
If you are an enterprise or corporate developer this book is also aimed at you. Symbian OS provides a selection of methods to connect a smartphone to a server, of which PC connectivity is one of the cheapest and fastest.
Book facts
- Author: Ian McDowall
- Published by Symbian Press
- Publication date:October 2004
- 460 pages
- ISBN 0-470-09053-7
