All About Symbian - Feature Articles - Series 80

Features - Series 80 - Develop

2006 - the year in review

We take a look back at some of the major events in the Symbian world in 2006.

# Posted by Rafe in Comment, Develop, Hardware at 19:52 UTC, Jan 1st

Introduction to NetBeans Mobility Pack - JME and CDC Development Tool

Introduction to developing with the NetBeans Mobility Pack. The pack is an addon for the Java IDE NetBeans and allows you to develop in JME and CDC for mobile phones. The tool includes some advanced features (such as on device debugging) for Sony Ericsson UIQ 3 phones.

# Posted by Rafe in Develop at 10:21 UTC, Aug 11th

Engineering with a business plan (part of a starting up guide)

John Pagonis presented a sessions at Orange Code Camp that focused on the business side of the mobile development story. This feature article is a summary of the information presented in that session.

# Posted by Rafe in Develop at 12:10 UTC, May 5th || 0 Comments

What is GoDB and First Steps

ConsignTech, makers of the GoDB programming system, introduce GoDB Lite for Symbian and link through to some first step tutorials.

# Posted by Rafe in Develop at 12:56 UTC, Oct 7th

Hands off our smartphones!

Steve Litchfield emphasises the need for freedom to install whatever you like and suspects that Symbian Signed is the thin end of the wedge...

# Posted by Steve in Comment, Develop at 14:02 UTC, Feb 18th

Author of 'The Book' - An Interview with Richard Harrison

Every OS has its programming books, and Symbian OS is no exception. Ewan caught up with the auther of "The C++ Book" for Symbian OS, Richard Harrison, to find out more about the man who helped write the text that everyone else uses to program our smartphones.

# Posted by Ewan in Interviews, Develop at 11:30 UTC, Nov 18th

Tutorial - Installing the Nokia 9200 SDK and OPL SDK

Get started with the 9200 OPL SDK on either a PC of the device itself.

# Posted by Rafe in How To, Develop at 17:10 UTC, Aug 25th

Part 7: Thinking about thinking

In which we'll take the player's guess, compare it to the real solution, and work out how accurate his guess was.

# Posted by Ewan in Develop at 14:56 UTC, Aug 25th

Part 6: Cursor Control

In which we start to give the user some control over the application, move the cursor around, and make our first guess with some coloured balls...

# Posted by Ewan in Develop at 14:44 UTC, Aug 25th

Part 5: Changing the Core

In which we'll make the first changes to Event Core and see the app starting to come together on our Communciators.

# Posted by Ewan in Develop at 14:42 UTC, Aug 25th

Part 4: Creating the MBM's

In which we'll identify graphics that we'll need, and create our first MBM graphics file using MBMWhizzard.

# Posted by Ewan in Develop at 14:41 UTC, Aug 25th

Part 3: Designing the Application

In which we'll start designing our first application, look at how to handle pictures, and discover how to manipulate windows and graphics.

# Posted by Ewan in Develop at 14:39 UTC, Aug 25th

Part 2: Understanding the Event Core

In which we'll introduce FreEPOC's event core, talk through the workings of this OPL framework of code, learn more about Procedures (and how to pass numbers to them), examine key inputs and the menu system, and finish up by seeing a program exiting safely.

# Posted by Ewan in Develop at 14:35 UTC, Aug 25th

Part 1: A Crash Course in OPL

In which we'll introduce you to the language of OPL, give you an idea of what variables and procedures are, how procedures call other procedures, and introduce you to the versatile DO... UNTIL... loop structure and the essential IF...ELSE... ENDIF

# Posted by Ewan in Develop at 14:32 UTC, Aug 25th