http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/mark-wilcoxs-forum-nokia-blog <p>Random musings on mobile software development...</p> <p> I've been working with some other Forum Nokia Champions and expert developers in the last few months to create some resources for Multi-language programming (mixing your favourite runtimes).&nbsp; The result is a <a href="http://developer.symbian.com/main/documentation/runtime_environments/multi/" target="_blank">series of papers for the Symbian Developer Network</a>. </p> <p> In them you can find out about: </p> <p> 1) The architecture for applications mixing languages </p> <p> 2) The strengths and weaknesses of various combinations of languages </p> <p> 3) How to combine Flash Lite with C++ or Java (with examples from KuneriLite and Jarpa) </p> <p> 4) How to combine Python with Flash Lite or C++ (with examples from Flyer and a tutorial on writing PyS60 extensions) </p> <p> 5) How to extend WRT widgets </p> <p> &nbsp; </p> <p> One of the suggestions I made on my blog here before and also in the papers has already been done.&nbsp; One of the authors of the paper covering Python, Jussi Toivola (aka GameDude) has <a href="http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=152969" target="_blank">ported pygame to PyS60 Community Edition</a>.&nbsp; Now you can write games with sound effects in Python, taking advantage of the native performance provided by the SDL. </p> <p> Please read and enjoy!&nbsp; Many thanks are due to Bernd Wiegmann, Felipe Andrade, Ugur Kaner, Jukka Hamalainen, Mikko Ohtamaa &amp; Jussi Toivola, as well as the wonderful folks at the SDN. </p> <p> Mark </p> <p> &nbsp; </p> http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/mark-wilcoxs-forum-nokia-blog/2008/12/16/multi-language-programming-python-flash-lite-c-java-widgets Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:03:33 +0200 <p> I thought I'd write a quick post to highlight some of the things I've been up to lately.&nbsp; </p> <p> <img src="http://blogs.forum.nokia.com//data/blogs/resources/300018/multi_book.gif" alt="Multimedia book cover." />First, there's <a href="http://developer.symbian.com/main/documentation/books/books_files/multi/index.jsp" target="_blank">Multimedia on Symbian OS: Inside the Convergence Device</a>, which I co-authored for Symbian Press.&nbsp; It should be available next month.&nbsp; Lots of great stuff for multimedia developers, or those wanting to add multimedia to their applications.&nbsp; 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.<br /> </p> <p> <img src="http://blogs.forum.nokia.com//data/blogs/resources/300018/TuxN95.jpg" alt="TuxN95" />Then there's a pair of paper's I've written for the <a href="http://developer.symbian.com/main/index.jsp" target="_blank">Symbian Developer Network</a>.&nbsp; One explains <a href="http://developer.symbian.com/main/downloads/papers/PortingfromLinuxPt1.pdf">how to port software from Linux to Symbian OS</a> and the other explains <a href="http://developer.symbian.com/main/downloads/papers/PortingFromLinuxPt2.pdf" target="_blank">how I ported an open source guitar tuner application</a> (with <a href="http://developer.symbian.com/main/documentation/porting/" target="_blank">example code</a>). </p> <p> I may well be talking about this and other porting work I've been doing at the <a href="http://mobiledevices.kom.aau.dk/team_and_organization/events/mobile_developer_days_2008/" target="_blank">Mobile Developer Days</a> in Berlin next week.&nbsp; There will be lots of interesting things to learn about there, including plenty of presentations and tutorials from Trolltech about Qt on mobile devices.&nbsp; Forum Nokia are hosting tutorials on Flash Lite and Web Runtime.&nbsp; You can also learn about Python, sensors and much, much more.&nbsp; Don't miss it! </p> <p> Mark&nbsp; </p> <p> &nbsp; </p> http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/mark-wilcoxs-forum-nokia-blog/2008/09/02/new-stuff-for-symbian-c-developers Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:05:01 +0300