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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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Re: Mobile Application Prototyping with Python for S60

hartti | 23/10/2007, 11:13

hartti Just my 2 cents about Ville's and Jurgens book. I have read it during evenings, and so far it seems to quite a nice book. There are plenty of examples (available on www.mobilepythonbook.org) and the book guides very well through the first steps (so you can get your first application to work) but also it provides some advanced material. If you are looking for Python reference guide or Python tutorial, then you need to get another book (although the Python language lessons inside the book give rough idea of the Python language in general)

Hartti

Re: Mobile Application Prototyping with Python for S60

fel3232 | 24/10/2007, 17:43

Very nice book, I have read it. Not the easiest read, but I can truly appreciate it.

Re: Mobile Application Prototyping with Python for S60

mopius | 24/10/2007, 18:07

mopius Thanks a lot for posting your opinions on the book! We've already ordered it for our university - from what I've seen at the Smartphone Show it does look very helpful for getting some help with implementing interesting ideas in a short time...

Re: Mobile Application Prototyping with Python for S60

Hypotheek Berekenen | 31/05/2008, 22:04

Anyone knows if the book is still orderable or is there a revised, new version already?

Thanks HB

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