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Penrillian uSTL now supports Series 60 3rd Edition
News posted April 22nd, 2008 by eric
Penrillian has recently released an enhanced version of its popular uSTL library for Symbian
OS C++. This is great news for the developer community as it now supports both Series 60
Edition 3 and UIQ devices. The latest release also offers additional features and a more
complete set of STL functionality
A peek inside the N-Gage first access SIS file
Tutorial posted March 20th, 2008 by putermanIn this article, the N-Gage first access SIS file is unpacked and dissected, and some interesting findings are reported. What does FlashLite have to do with N-Gage, what devices are supported, and what is the security culture really like inside Nokia?
Y-Tasks
Download posted November 27th, 2007 by ericY-Tasks is a collection of development helper tools for S60 3rd edition devices (Symbian OS 9 -->), as the version number shows they are beta versions and hopefully will be extended in the future
Nokia officially announces a new high-end smartphone: Nokia N82
News posted November 14th, 2007 by eric
Nokia unveils the Nokia N82, the latest multimedia smartphone optimized for photography, navigation and internet connectivity. With the tools to discover the places and moments worth capturing, and the capabilities to capture and share them instantaneously, the Nokia N82 offers photography enthusiasts an enhanced camera experience.
WebKit Browser Control wrapper
Tutorial posted November 2nd, 2007 by jariS60 3.0 and 3.1 both have WebKit Browser Control available, but developers have to link their applications against different libraries. This short tutorial explains how you can use the same application binary for both S60 3.0 and 3.1 and still use the WebKit Browser Control for both.
Optimization of real-time video processing on Nokia N95 smartphone
Tutorial posted January 16th, 2008 by VoblinTo work with real-time video one needs at least two things - direct access to bitmaps and fast way to get frames from a video camera. To achieve the first goal one needs to keep in mind that Bitmaps are located on a shared heap that needs to be locked before any direct access can safely take place.
Widgets on S60: Web Runtime
Tutorial posted November 15th, 2007 by dcrochaEarly in 2007, Nokia announced the Web Runtime (WRT) technology as one of the great news for the S60 platform. This technology will be available with all S60 3rd. Edition Feature Pack 2 devices and allows development of applications (called widgets) for S60 smartphones using standard Web technologies such as: XHTML, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and JavaScript, besides bringing cutting-edge Web 2.0 applications to your device with the use of AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML).
In this article we'll introduce the Web Runtime technology, will show what's the importance of it for the quick and easy building of mobile applications, besides presenting the tools you'll need to develop widgets using WRT. We'll also build a simple example application to show you how the whole development cycle works.
Carbide.vs 3.0
News posted November 9th, 2007 by ericForum Nokia today released Carbide.vs 3.0, introducing the support of Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2005 IDE and latest S60 SDKs. Several small improvements have also been added to make Symbian development as simple as possible on the Microsoft IDE.
Samsung Innovation Quest
News posted October 22nd, 2007 by eric
The Samsung Innovation Quest is a contest to find new exciting applications for mobile devices with up to 240.000$ in money prizes. The contest is divided into two branches, Professional and Academic. The professional contest is an open topic, open OS (S60 3rd Edition FP2 or Windows Mobile 6) based application development competition targeting individual developers, teams and application developing companies.
