Requesting an UID for your application

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To request a UID for your application, you now must connect to the Symbian Signed web site.

If you do not have an account, create it (it's free!) and log to the site. You should see a page looking like:

SymbianSigned-small.png

!Click on the "Request UIDs" option. If you need an UID for an application that will go through the Symbian Signed certification, request an UID in the protected range, else select the unprotected one.

The UID will be immediately allocated - unlike the old email based version - and you can even see all the UIDs your are owning from the web site.

If you are at early developement stages and don't want to bother with UIDs, or if you just don't intend to redistribute your application, you can pickup a random UID in the test range. This is:
-  0x01000000...0x0FFFFFFF for Symbian OS v6, v7 and v8
-  0xE0000000...0xEFFFFFFF for Symbian OS v9 and onwards


Problem: "The application couldn't be started" ????

HI, my application is working correctly on Emulator. I made pkg file and sis file and tried to install it on phone(P800). I saw its icon, but when clicking on, i m getting "the application could'nt be started". Is this because of UID? or another problem? Informations about solving this problem would be apreciated. Thanks in advance.

> Problem: "The application couldn't be started" ????

hi, i have the same problem for an application developed on Series80. Did you solved your issue? if so, how?

Thanks

> Problem: "The application couldn't be started" ????

This may be because you have forgotten to change one of the references to your old UID. I had this same problem, and then realised I still had the old UID in my CAknApplication::AppDllUid() function.

Development UIDs

According to Symbian Developer Library the range for Developer UIDs is 0x01000000 - 0x0FFFFFFF (not 0x00000001 - 0x0FFFFFFF as mentioned in the article). Those two bits make a difference :)

> Development UIDs

Thanks for the notice. I have updated the article.

Re: Requesting an UID for your application

It should be "a UID", unless you pronounce it "oo-id". In either case, it's good to be consistent.