There are plenty of utilities to extract the contents of a SIS file from the pre Symbian 9.1 SIS files. However, I could not find that kind of tool for the new SISX file format. So, I wrote a small python utility that is able to parse the SIS file, print some information about its contents and extract the contained files.

[Updated: v1.4] NLMakesis is a small utilities that improves the way Symbian OS Makesis works by adding two new capabilities for packaging your application with the possibility to have SDK independent pkg file and to process your pkg file using the CPP preprocessor

Symbian Ltd has finally documented the changes in the new SIS file format introduced with Symbian v9. Written by Symbian's Security team, the document is available for download on Symbian web site.

Developing a multilingual application is rather simple with Symbian OS and this tutorial will show you to achieve this. Of course, it is always tempting to hardcode your strings. But with only a little effort you can have your application working in English and your native language...

On all devices based on Symbian OS v7.0s (Series 60 Developer Platform 2nd Edition, Series 80 Developer Platform 2.0, and Series 90 Developer Platform 2.0) it is possible to save considerable disk space by compressing an application's executable files.

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.

Symbian has the capability of supporting resources in multiple languages, and letting the user decide which language to use at installation time. This article shows how to support this in your code.

SIS file is a standard and convenient way to distribute Symbian applications. This article will present you how to package your application into a SIS file and how to wrie the corresponding PKG file.