PC Software

Tools running on Desketop PC that may help in Symbian development

Symbian SDK switcher

Symbian SDK switcher is a freeware utility that allow you yo quickly switch from one SDK to another. Once launched, the application displays a system tray icon listing all SDK available on your machine.

A Bluetooth emulator to ease development of Bluetooth applications

This is a utility to provide a simple Bluetooth API for application programmers. The API enables to debug the Bluetooth functionality within the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 IDE with the help of a simple Bluetooth emulator. The Bluetooth API only uses Symbian OS core functionality and is therefore phone independent.

SIS Xplode

Free utility for extracting information from SIS files

UnSIS

UnSis is a little program that extracts the contents of a SIS file to a specific directory. It runs on Windows and Linux platform with Perl 5.6 or higher.

Sony Ericsson Update Service

This service will keep your device (P900/P908 only so far) updated with the very latest firmware revision. When an improved software version for your product is introduced, you can download it whenever you want to. You will be guided smoothly through the update process.

AnalyseHeap Utility

AnalyseHeap analyses the contents of Symbian OS heaps to produce meaningful representations of their structure and content. It reads in the heap file, and walks the heap structure contained in it. From this, it builds a set of all the allocated and free heap cells. These are then cross referenced so that ownership relationships can be identified.

DepTool

This tool is a small front end onto the DepDB module. It takes as parameters a directory containing Symbian OS exe/dlls and a name of a text output file. The DepDB module will analyse the .lib and .exe/.dll files to determine what is being imported and what is being exported. A report is of this info is then placed into the output file.

Open-qub: a graphical resource editor for UIQ

Open QUB is an open-source tool for developers to create user interfaces and generate source code for the UIQ 2.1 platform in just a few clicks. Once satisfied with your user interface, just let the code generator turn everything into source code ready to be compiled.

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