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Mark Wilcox's Forum Nokia Blog
New Stuff for Symbian C++ Developers
Sorcery-ltd | 02 September, 2008 12:05
I thought I'd write a quick post to highlight some of the things I've been up to lately.
First, there's Multimedia on Symbian OS: Inside the Convergence Device, which I co-authored for Symbian Press. It should be available next month. Lots of great stuff for multimedia developers, or those wanting to add multimedia to their applications. It also does a really good job (well I would say that wouldn't I) of explaining the multimedia architecture, so you can understand how it all works underneath.
Then there's a pair of paper's I've written for the Symbian Developer Network. One explains how to port software from Linux to Symbian OS and the other explains how I ported an open source guitar tuner application (with example code).
I may well be talking about this and other porting work I've been doing at the Mobile Developer Days in Berlin next week. There will be lots of interesting things to learn about there, including plenty of presentations and tutorials from Trolltech about Qt on mobile devices. Forum Nokia are hosting tutorials on Flash Lite and Web Runtime. You can also learn about Python, sensors and much, much more. Don't miss it!
Mark
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Yes, but not for complete Symbian novices
Sorcery-ltd | 02/09/2008, 22:33
Hi Kiran,
Yes, there is all the basic multimedia info in there. How to use all the main APIs for audio and video, the camera, image conversion library and even the tuner component (for FM Radio in UIQ phones, but not S60 ones). There's a chapter on best practice too. I tried to make sure there was enough multimedia background info in there too about codecs and formats etc.
The book is not good for people completely new to Symbian on its own though. It assumes you know something about descriptors and having some idea about active objects would be a good idea too (although not essential for most of the content). It doesn't introduce the basic Symbian stuff again. Developers should go for the ASD primer first for that, or maybe the new version of Symbian OS Explained when that comes out.
If you already know Symbian C++ programming but want to know more about multimedia on Symbian OS then you are the ideal target audience for the book.
Hope that helps,
Mark
Promoting the book
Sorcery-ltd | 02/09/2008, 22:38
P.S. If you think you know lots of people who will want a copy and would like to make a bulk order then let me know and I'll have a word with the folks at Symbian Press - I'm sure they'd let you have a free copy then. I don't get to give them away for free myself :-(
Congratulations!!!
kiran10182 | 02/09/2008, 21:00
Hello Mark,
I am glad on reading this blog. One question though; does this book contain all the basic information for novice in Multimedia world? I mean to say that if you are good in other aspects of mobile programming and not good enough in Multimedia part, then is there anything interesting for such group of people in this book?
It would be good if you provide insights before it releases in market.
PS: My holy intention is to promote your book and I should be given a free copy. Just kidding. ;-)
Kiran.