Developing Series 60 Applications: A Guide for Symbian OS C++ Developers: A Guide for Symbian OS C++ Developers (Nokia Mobile Developer) - Softcover

Edwards, Leigh; Barker, Richard; Staff Of EMCC Software Ltd.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0321227220 ISBN 13: 9780321227225

Publisher: Addison Wesley, 2004

Synopsis

The Series 60 Platform is a multi-vendor, open standards-based platform for one-handed smart phone application development. It delivers applications ranging from Web browsing to games to e-mail and messaging services, as well as other PDA functions including synchronization with PC applications such as Outlook. It also allows for video recording and playback. Nokia not only develops its own smart phones using Series 60 but also licenses this development platform to other smart phone manufacturers. The bottomline: Series 60 presents developers with a compelling opportunity to create a new wave of applications and services for global deployment on handsets from multiple manufacturers. Series 60 Software Development, the first book in the Nokia Mobile Developer Series, will be the official guide for developers creating applications for mobile devices based on the feature-rich Series 60 platform. This book covers the complete suite of development tools available for this platform including Series 60 C++ SDK (software development kit) for the Symbian OS. The authors will also cover browser-based application development using WML and XHTML. The authors will explain how to design, develop, test and debug, and deploy real world applications ranging from games to multimedia messaging.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"The robust, advanced technologies of Symbian OS are accessible to developers today in millions of phones worldwide through the Series 60 Platform. Inside Developing Series 60 Applications there are sixty example applications, focused entirely on native Symbian OS C++ programming, which will help developers take advantage of the rapidly growing opportunities in Symbian OS smartphone software development."

―David Levin, CEO, Symbian Ltd.

The first official book on Series 60 Platform development―from design to deployment

Series 60 smartphone developers are deploying the next wave of mobile services. With more than 60% of all mobile phone manufacturers licensing Series 60 Platform, Series 60 represents the smartphone market with the largest user base for mobile application developers.

To help nurture this growing market, Nokia has worked directly with EMCC Software, a leading Symbian and Series 60 Competence Center, to create Developing Series 60 Applications, the definitive guide to Series 60 development for C++ programmers and software designers. Fully reviewed by Nokia's subject matter experts, the authors cover the entire development process―from design, programming, and testing to debugging and deployment―while providing sixty complete projects, each with full C++ source code and installation scripts.

Developing Series 60 Applications includes coverage of:

• Series 60 development tools, IDEs, and C++ SDKs
• The underlying Symbian OS
• Application design with the Series 60 framework architecture
• User interface controls, menus, dialogs, lists, and editors
• Basic and advanced Series 60 communications APIs
• Multimedia development: drawings, fonts, bitmaps, animation, and audio
• Invoking standard application views and using application engines
• Building more powerful applications with C++ APIs
• Series 60 Developer Platforms 1 and 2

About the Author:

LEIGH EDWARDS is the author of Programming Psion Computers and has been working with Symbian OS for more than six years, since the days of EPOC32 and Psion Software. He is a co-founder of EMCC Software Ltd., a Symbian and Series 60 Competence Center.

RICHARD BARKER has been developing in C++ for ten years, with a background in R&D, artificial intelligence, and real-time training simulators for defense systems. He has been with EMCC Software as a Symbian OS and Series 60 developer for three years, working on interface and engine design, client software to deliver dynamic data services, and development of Symbian OS itself. He is a regular contributor of Series 60 documentation for Forum Nokia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Addison Wesley
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0321227220
• ISBN 13: 9780321227225
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 800