development for nokia
DESCRIPTION
How do you develop for the Nokia Symbian platform and what tools and options are there to help you with that? This presentation answers those questions!TRANSCRIPT
Robert MacLeanBB&D
Development for Nokia
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Feb 23rd * 9AM
Agenda
1. Overview of the Symbian Platform
2. Flowella
3. Web Runtime Toolkit
4. QT via C++
Goals: High level introduction
to the topics Generate interest Find areas to look at
in future
Developing Apps
Symbian
Nokia + Sharp + Sony Ericsson + Symbian Ltd
Dec 2008: Nokia buys Symbian April 2009: Symbian Foundation Feb 2010: Open Sourced Sept 2010: Stephen Elop CEO of Nokia Nov 2010: Symbian Foundation becomes
licensing company (Nokia Stewards) Feb 2011: Nokia announces WP7 partnership
A multitude of platforms
Series 60 3rd Edition5320, 5630, 5730, E71, N79
Symbian^1 (Series 60 5th Ed)5228, 5800, C6, N97, Omnia
HDSymbian^3
N8, C7
Used?
Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericson, Sharp, Fujitsu
World wide leader in Smart Phone OSNot the leader in SA or USA
What is a Smart Phone?
Platform Features
Enhanced WebKit Browser Multi-Tasking Hard & soft keyboards Sensors Bluetooth, WiFi, 3g Multi Touch NOT CONSISTENT ACROSS DEVICES!
Multi-Touch
Development Options
C++ Java Mobile Edition Python Adobe Flash Lite Microsoft Silverlight* Web Runtime Toolkit (JavaScript) Ruby .NET* Visual Basic (NSBasic)
Development Features
Package Format (single file)SQLiteOpenGL* Signed Applications
OVI
Nokia service brand OVI Store
190 Countries, 30 languages120 devicesMobile billing (103 operators)Credit card billing (170 countries)4 Million downloads per day1 Euro publisher fee
Let’s dive in to a
demo