As an Assistant Professor, I'm teaching Symbian OS at the University of Applied Sciences in Hagenberg, Austria. My company "Mopius" is developing mobile software with a special focus on Symbian OS.
Mobile Application Prototyping with Python for S60
mopius | 22 October, 2007 15:00
Application development for mobile phones is not so easy to get into in case you use native languages. For many applications – and especially for prototypes – “simpler” languages are preferable.
The most obvious choices would be Java ME or Flash Lite, but both have their own shortcomings and limitations, which don’t always justify their use. A better choice can be using Python for S60 (PyS60), which allows development in a very efficient way and at the same time offers greatly simplified access to many lower-level features of Symbian OS phones.
If you have not yet had the time to take a closer look at Python, the technical report from Bernhard Famler from the University of Applied Sciences in Hagenberg, Austria might be very interesting for you. On a few pages, he gives an overview of what makes the programming language special, how it is integrated with S60 and how you can distribute your applications – e.g. by building stand-alone applications.
Of course, for a more detailed look, you should take a closer look at the highly recommended “Mobile Python: Rapid prototyping of applications on the mobile platform”-book by Jürgen Scheible and Ville Tuulos. It has just been released at the Symbian Smartphone Show in London – if you didn’t use this event to get your own (signed) copy or at least one of his famous book covers with your own portrait on it :-) , you should order it as soon as possible!
The technical report is freely available at symbianresources.com.
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Thinking about what mobile phones can do except messaging and voice calls is one of my main interests. At the department of Mobile Computing at the University of Applied Sciences in Hagenberg (Austria), I can work on those ideas every day by collaborating with students, researching and - well - thinking.
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