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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.

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Category: Symbian C++

Load your application in a running emulator

Everybody loves to hate the Symbian SDK emulator. The first reaction to it usually is: "It is slow, really slooooooow, it takes ages to start it" ;) Yes, it is true, the emulator is slow, but considering the task it has to perform and the complexity of the system it emulates such...

Nokia N97 SDK v1.0 released

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)

Can you write an antivirus?

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...

A few reminders

I want to remind you a couple of things about the S60 5th Edition SDK: The current version is 0.9 and that shoud indicate that it is a beta SDK. We are still descovering problems with it and trying to fix them when possible even before the next SDK release. To save youself from some...

How to enable support for old SDKs in Carbide.c++ v1.3

Let's start with a bit of a warning: the tool no longer supports the old SDKs and this decision is final. Applying the hack described here will at best restore the support for the old SDK to the 1.2 level but enhancements are not to be expected. You should not ask for support from the...

S60 SDK and tools on Windows Vista - a success story

The following is a copy of a Discussion Board post from a thread discussing - again - the level of support of the S60 tools and SDK for the Windows Vista, or more likely the lack there of. (More)

Are you ready for more ... drives?

It has become a reflex for Symbian developers to think of the available drives as being at best four: Z: the ROM drive where the firmware resides (More)

S60 SDK API Plug-ins

The S60 SDK API Plug-ins have been updated today. One change affecting all the plug-in versions regards the click-through Limited License Agreement (LLA), updated to reflect developer's concerns about the use of the provided APIs in 3rd party projects, both closed and open source. The...

Leo Laporte knows the truth about S60 ?

I've hear it so many times that I surprise myself for not believing it by now. Bashing S60 is by now the most popular sport, at least until the Olympic Games are started in Beijing. S60 is said to be difficult to learn (when compared to the Finnish language), difficult to understand (compared...

Platform Security and Symbian Signed

Here's another "mind map" that I hope will help developers understand what are the implications of Platform Security on the Symbian Signed process. To me it is self-explanatory but I would happily answer any questions you might have on the topic. (More)

What PlatSec capabilities does my application need?

Still looking for an answer to this question? The new release of Carbide.c++ comes with the " Capability Scanner " tool, a static code scanner that will identify the APIs used in your code, map them against a database of known APIs and their capability requirements and then provide...

S60 3rd Edition FP2 SDK released

No media hype, no cool videos and no amassing press releases. Not yet anyway :) But yes, the S60 3rd Edition SDK, supporting Feature Pack 2 (aka S60 3.2 SDK) is out and waiting for you to download it. (More)

Carbide.c++ 1.3 Updated

A small bit of news collected from the Carbide.c++ Beta group: the original Carbide.++ release had version number 1.3 build 23 but starting with 14.03.2008 the download package contains the new build 24. No details have been provided about what bugs have been fixed in this silent update but...

Platform Security - Lost and Found

Don't worry, this is not yet another long article about what Platform Security is and why is it the second best thing ever, after the sliced pizza of course. O wait, that's the iPhone. Ok, ... the third! (More)

Undocumented Symbian OS and S60 panics

You know it and I know it, the SDK documentation can be better . In many ways. But maybe the most critical issue is the way the returned errors, leave codes and panics are "documented" is really mind-bugling. One frequent statement is something like "If something goes wrong the...