SCN October 2007
Bringing the Symbian developer community the latest news and resources for Symbian OS.
In this edition
Register NOW for The Symbian Smartphone Show The Symbian Developer Network Live! Join Motorola at the MOTODEV summit Enter the Samsung Innovation Quest Symbian training courses BT Wi-Fi Developer Challenge Come and apply for a career at Symbian Symbian and ARM cooperate Sony Ericsson Application Shop: more than just selling Adobe launches Flash Lite 3 New paper: Leaves and Exceptions New paper: What's new in Symbian OS v9.4 Updated paper: Monotype fonts on mobiles New book: Developing Software for Symbian OS - 2nd Edition New book: Mobile Python New booklet: A Guide to Symbian Signed Updated booklet: Essential UIQ Getting Started Coming soon: Essential S60 Developers' Guide Read the latest Symbian FAQs Partner and community updates - Forum Nokia Partner and community updates - UIQ
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Register NOW for the Symbian Smartphone Show
You must register now for the biggest smartphone event of the year and experience the future of mobile direct from the industry's most forward-thinking players.
The world's biggest brands are going mobile and they're doing it first on smartphones. Consumer electronics, Internet, entertainment, commerce and publishing are all going mobile and they need your help to get there.
Register hereThe Symbian Developer Network Live!
The Symbian Developer Network is going Live! at this year's Symbian Smartphone Show. Meet us in person by joining us for seminars, technical hands-on sessions, a training classroom and more.
Consumer electronics, Internet, entertainment, commerce and publishing are all going mobile and they can't do it without you.
At the show:
- Symbian Developer Network Live! - All the tools and support needed to build the future of mobile.
- Technical Presentations - Top presenters speaking on key topics, including Bootstrapping an Agile project with James O. Coplien, and many more.
- Hands on Sessions - Join us in the Live! lounge for a series of 10-minute, rolling demonstrations throughout the day.
- Mobile Futures - Ground-breaking technology that will power tomorrow's phones and deliver tomorrow's experiences.
Join Motorola at the MOTODEV summit
A day at a MOTODEV Summit can show you how to break through fragmentation and complexity to tap the vast mobile opportunity - save weeks or even months of development time as you bring your application to market. Engage with Motorola to help you define, design, develop, debug, deploy and distribute unique and compelling enterprise, vertical business or consumer solutions in the shortest time possible. Drill down into exactly the areas that interest you with detailed technical training, hands-on workshops and informative sessions. Gain valuable insights into emerging technologies, and get a sneak peek of next-generation Motorola products.
Learn more about the new MOTO Z8 and mobile multimedia by attending Motorola's UIQ platform session and tutorials.
- London, England - 9th November 2007
- Beijing, China - 12th November 2007
Enter the Samsung Innovation Quest
Have you ever thought that you knew a great solution or technology that could be used on a mobile phone? Have you ever used a mobile phone and thought to yourself, 'I wish it could do this' or 'I wish it had that?' Well here is a real opportunity for you to have your ideas realised in some of the most technologically advanced mobile phones in the world.
The Samsung IQ contest is a way you can do just that by submitting your ideas and then having a chance to show them to a panel of experts, not only having an opportunity to win the contest but also to work with the world's leading mobile telephone brand and possibly see your idea used in the real world!
Find out more about the competitionSymbian 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. In particular, we would like to draw your attention to the following courses:
- Dallas - Symbian OS Internals course, 29-31 October
- London - Symbian OS Essentials course, 21-23 November
- London - Symbian OS Internals course, 10-12 December
BT Wi-Fi Developer Challenge
BT has launched a competition to promote the development of innovative applications and services for Wi-Fi enabled mobile devices. The overall winner will receive £1000 in prize money, with further monetary prizes for second and third places.
Entries will be judged by representatives from BT, Symbian and a third party organisation. The winners will be announced at the Mobile World Congress (previously known as the 3GSM World Congress) in February 2008.
Find out more about the competitionCome and apply for a career at Symbian
Positioned at the heart of the wireless industry, Symbian offers exciting and stimulating roles both locally and internationally for those eager to play an active part in developing our OS. Check out our new careers website and find the role that suits you.
Find out moreSymbian and ARM cooperate on symmetric multi processing
Symbian have announced Symbian OS support for the ARM Symmetric Multi-processor (SMP) architecture. Symbian and ARM are long standing partners and have successfully collaborated on technology development and product planning for over 10 years.
Find out moreSony Ericsson Application Shop: more than just selling
A market for third-party applications is an integral part of the smartphone promise and opportunities for UIQ application developers look set to improve significantly heading into 2008.
Find out moreAdobe launches Flash Lite 3
Adobe have announced the availability of Flash Lite 3, which now supports Adobe Flash Player compatible video and enables the delivery of dynamic Web content on mobile devices.
Find out moreNew on SDN
New paper: Leaves and Exceptions
Jason Morley outlines the motivations for why Symbian OS v9.x now supports standard C++ exceptions.
Read the paperNew paper: What's new on Symbian OS v9.4
Symbian OS v9.4 is a major upgrade to Symbian OS, delivering a number of architectural enhancements and new or extended APIs that are of interest to developers. Mark Shackman delves deeper.
Read the paperUpdated paper: Monotype fonts on mobiles
Monotype Imaging, a Symbian Platinum Partner, explains font usage on mobile devices. This technical paper, written in collaboration with the Symbian Developer Network, looks at font technology for mobiles and the rationale and process for font selection.
Read the paperNew book: Developing Software for Symbian OS - Second Edition
This book is an essential guide for anyone wishing to start developing applications for Symbian OS v9. The original book has been updated for Symbian OS v9 and now includes a new chapter on application signing and platform security. It has been updated throughout for Symbian OS v9 and changes to the development environment.
Find out moreNew book: Mobile Python
Mobile Python – Rapid Prototyping of Applications on the Mobile Platform is a practical hands-on book that introduces the popular open source programming language Python to the mobile space.
Find out moreNew booklet: A Guide to Symbian Signed
No matter what kind of application you are developing for Symbian OS, the changes in Symbian Signed should make it easier for you to get your software signed and deployed. These changes will be available at a date to be announced during Q4 2007.
Read the bookletUpdated booklet: Essential UIQ Getting Started
The UIQ booklet has now been updated and its aim is to guide developers through some of the most important features of the UIQ 3 user interface and development platform.
Read the bookletComing soon: Essential S60 Developers' Guide
This booklet, the first in the Essential S60 series, is a guide to options for developing S60 applications. Visit Symbian Developer Network Live! at the Symbian Smartphone Show and pick up a free copy. Alternatively, keep checking the Symbian Developer Network website for the free downloadable PDF version.
The Latest Symbian FAQs
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Can "+" characters in the folder path lead to link errors during building?FAQ1508
Does Symbian OS support the secure MMC stack?FAQ1505
Why does my application display English resource files though the phone language is different?FAQ1503
Why is my unsigned application not properly displaying Context Sensitive Help topics?FAQ1502
What files can I put in the zip file uploaded to Symbian Signed for testing?From our Partners & Community
Forum Nokia
Plug into smartphone expertise with the S60 Experts Corner
Developers seeking assistance with the S60 platform can turn to Nokia's recently launched S60 Experts Corner. The site provides access to experienced S60 application developers who are willing to share their expertise with other developers on a consulting basis. The site also provides contact information for these S60 experts, describes their S60 development experiences, and lists the specialty skills and special resources that each has gained along the way.
Find out moreBeta Release of S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 2, SDK available for download
The beta release of the S60 Platform SDKs for Symbian OS, for Java was recently released. The latest edition provides support for a subset of JSR 248 that is crucial to harmonize the mobile Java platform across different vendors. Download the beta version of the SDK and follow the device announcements!
Find out moreDeveloper communities abuzz over Python for S60 1.4.
The final, signed Python for S60 1.4.0 was recently released and developers are already buzzing. Reports the Nokia Python for S60 Wiki: "The capabilities for the PythonForS60 component are usable with almost all applications as is and thus there is no longer a need for a separate unsigned version of this package." And on the Forum Nokia discussion boards developers can read that the new version supports both S60 2nd Edition and 3rd Edition: "If someone is interested in making 1st Edition builds...just get the source and go ahead."
Find out more at the Nokia Python Wiki Find out more at the Nokia Python Discussion BoardUIQ
UIQ at the Symbian Smartphone Show
The UIQ Technology, Motorola and Sony Ericsson teams will be at the Symbian Smartphone Show. Whether you want to learn more about UIQ, ask a technical, commercial or partnering question, show us your latest application or meet the people you've been in touch with via the forums and email, visit our booths at the show. Bring your application along and you can get on-the-spot free developer support. On the UIQ Technology booth you can enter a raffle for a chance to win Motorola and Sony Ericsson phones.
Mark your diary for the show special events:
- Learn how one application code can run on all the diverse UIQ 3 phones from two top manufacturers; UIQ Technology; Developer Seminar Theatre, 16th October, 15:00 - 15:20
- Mobility and the next wave of Innovation; Padmasree Warrior, CTO, Motorola, Mobile Futures Seminar; 16th October, 14:55 - 15:20
- UIQ business & fun!; Ulf Wretling, Head of Content Planning and Management, Sony Ericsson; Here & Now Seminar; 16th October, 15:50 - 16:15
- UIQ 3 Application Development training; Digia; Location: Developer Training Room, 17th October, 12:30 - 15:00
UIQ Developer Fast Track - an event for mobile application development
Attend the next UIQ Developer Fast Track in Budapest, Hungary on November 29 - 30th and get all the information you need to develop successful applications and content for UIQ 3. You will engage with industry experts, UIQ platform engineers and fellow developers; learn about the business case for targeting UIQ 3 and get a deeper technical knowledge of the architecture of UIQ 3. You will receive an exclusive UIQ Starter kit containing everything required to start developing for the UIQ platform, including a free UIQ 3 phone.
Register now for the UIQ Fast Track Budapest eventNew UIQ 3 tips & code samples
Sony Ericsson Developer World has published another two code examples outlining how to use the alarm server and heap descriptor in UIQ 3. There are now 54 UIQ 3 Tips, Tricks & Code articles published.
Learn from the latest code examplesStay Tuned
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