I've been poking my nose in mobile software development since 2000, starting on what was then the ER5 and Ericsson's R380. Since then I've been doing a bit of everything on the S60 Platform, from learning its bits and pieces to helping others find their way trough the maze.
ltomuta | 09 November, 2009 17:00
Coming up next: Rebuild without restarting the emulator.
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ltomuta | 08 November, 2009 17:50
How many SDKs do I need? Which SDK is best for me?
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ltomuta | 29 September, 2009 19:17
There are many things that can go wrong with a SIS installation package and unfortunately the software installer component provides no logging mechanism for developers to be able to precisely pinpoint the point of failure. (More)
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ltomuta | 16 July, 2009 17:00
Those engaged in developing applications for Nokia N97 will be interested to know that the final version of the Nokia N97 SDK has been released today. (More)
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ltomuta | 16 July, 2009 16:00
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The Symbian Foundation announced a new application-publishing platform, called Horizon, which is intended to help developers, big and small, to publish their Symbian applications on the software market. (More)
Qt for S60 "Tower" demo running on Nokia N97ltomuta | 25 June, 2009 21:30
Qt for S60 "Tower" releasedltomuta | 25 June, 2009 19:00
You will most probably be glad to hear fresh news from the Qt for S60 port team. They have a new release* out, it is called Tower and it is based on Qt 4.5.2.
All these and a lot more in an 126 MB binary installer which is smart enough to detect all compatible SDKs in your system and install "Tower" support in all of them. (From what I see the installer needs a bit of optimization or I need a new computer
You can find all the binaries, documentation and support information on the Qt for S60 "Tower" pre-release site. Coming soon support for Samsung's S60 devices, an updated version of the Qt for S60 Developer Library here on Forum Nokia and a new release of the Mobility Extensions APIs. *Please note that this is still a technology preview release and it is not yet ready for production grade application development.
Symbian Foundation promo videosltomuta | 19 May, 2009 00:00
Happy Birthday Symbian Signed!ltomuta | 18 May, 2009 17:00 The Symbian Foundation is brand new but one of their services is celebrating it's 5th birthday today. You can find on the Symbian.org blog a brief summary of what the service is an some rather interesting usage stats. But more importantly you will find there a glimpse of what they are preparing for the near future: " ... Lower cost Publisher IDs available to anyone Truly promising plans, I hope that we will hear more details about these soon. Until then: Happy Birthday Symbian Signed!
More Symbian Foundation beta invitesltomuta | 15 May, 2009 10:00
You may have seen in Mark's recent post an invitation to become a Symbian Foundation site beta So, are you a software developer curious about the new Symbian Foundation web site? Want to be the first one posting a technical question on that forum? Want to be the first one who answers one? Want to see open sourced code? Let's do it then, let's get you in!
Who can get an invitation?
How many invitations are available?
How can I apply?
Update your links to SDLltomuta | 13 May, 2009 17:18
Do you feel lucky? Lucky enough to ask Google to take you to the best search result for CCoeControl?
Facelift at SymbianSigned.comltomuta | 07 April, 2009 12:00
A refreshed web site welcomes us at http://www.symbiansigned.com, with the site adopting Symbian Foundation's colors. The change is skin deep however so do not expect any [major] changes in the familiar processes. What is important, although should not be a surprise for anyone by now, is that the ownership of the site is now at Symbian Foundation and that may have impact your access to the site if you haven't accepted the account transfer to the new legal entity. The site has a message on the main page which explains how one can recover his old account:
It is not clear to me what "option" should be selected and an attempt to "transfer" one such lost account has failed We will have to wait a bit more I guess for these things to be fully clarified. Hopefully not many developers are affected by the ownership change, which was after all advertised for months If you wish to contact Symbian Signed regarding any related issues the location of the support forum remains (for now) the same.
Feeling inspired? (II)ltomuta | 14 March, 2009 11:00 A new video from the TED conference, showing MIT's students enhancing Johnny Lee's work in the search for a practical application.
Are the presented use cases tempting enough to make you wear one of those devices?
Can you write an antivirus?ltomuta | 21 February, 2009 11:00 The blogosphere is buzzing with a hot subject: a worm attacking Symbian smartphones. The creature has a name too, not a latin one as the living worms but a rather techie one: Trojan:SymbOS/Yxe.A. Or, among its friends, "Sexy view". You can read Gabor Torok's analysis of the incident at Mobile worm, Yxes.A - an analysis but in this post I want to challenge you with a more hands-on task: how to protect yourself from this worm? We all know (I hope) the good old security advices published by Nokia at http://europe.nokia.com/get-support-and-software/learn-how/security/your-device:
For the sake of this post however, let's pretend that we want to ignore these advices and instead ensure that we can install any sis file that finds its way to our devices ... except this virus, of course. So, given that the info we have about the virus is whatever we can find from this picture from F-Secure's blog,
the requirement is to design a component that blocks the installation of the worm without affecting any other application. If multiple solutions are proposed the winner will be the one with the simplest design and less Platform Security capabilities requirements. Only public APIs can be used for creating the solution. Do you have the answer? Post it here or, if it has any attachments, send it to ltomuta@ovi.com
Fine print:
Carbide.ui Theme Edition registrationltomuta | 20 February, 2009 16:00 The Forum Nokia site and the Discussion Boards are frequently bombarded with one simple question: Where can I find the registration key (serial number) for Carbide.ui Theme Edition? This post is yet another attempt to help themes designers get past this problem and hopefully, with the help of Google's search engine, the videos provided here will be the final answer to this apparenly really complicated issue :)
A few more things to be noted:
And, as a final comment, this is not a totally useless post for C++ and Java developers either as the S60 emulator uses an identical registration procedure :)
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