Symbian
This post is a continuation of the series exploring mobile technology platforms. For introduction to the series please refer to: "What technology platform to choose for development of mobile applications?"
Other postings in the series:
Mobile Messaging
Mobile Web
Mobile Java
BREW
Symbian
Symbian OS (http://www.symbian.com/) is a fully fledged operating system designed specifically for advanced phones also known as smartphones. It is developed by Symbian, a company owned by a number of phone manufacturers led by Nokia which owns close to 50% of the company. According to Symbian, almost 60 million phones have been shipped with its OS by the end of 2005. Symbian dominates the market for smartphones – reports from analysts such as Gartner and IDC estimate that its market share is at 68% to 85%. A list of phones running Symbian OS can be found at http://www.symbian.com/phones/index.html.
To develop Symbian applications you need Symbian OS SDK, Active Perl (to compile applications), Microsoft Debugging Tool for Windows and Visual C++ Toolkit, and Borland C++ BuilderX Mobile Edition or alternative C++ IDE such as Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 or Metrowerk CodeWarrior. Several different versions of Symbian OS SDKs are available. For example Nokia provides two versions: S60 and Series 80 Platform. The differences between versions include differences in UI API. Applications are developed for a specific version of the SDK and need to be ported to other versions to support a broader set of Symbian devices. Native Symbian applications are written primarily in C++. However, the OS also supports J2ME, XHTML browsing, Python, FlashLite, Visual C++ and Visual Basic.
Other postings in the series:
Mobile Messaging
Mobile Web
Mobile Java
BREW
Symbian
Symbian OS (http://www.symbian.com/) is a fully fledged operating system designed specifically for advanced phones also known as smartphones. It is developed by Symbian, a company owned by a number of phone manufacturers led by Nokia which owns close to 50% of the company. According to Symbian, almost 60 million phones have been shipped with its OS by the end of 2005. Symbian dominates the market for smartphones – reports from analysts such as Gartner and IDC estimate that its market share is at 68% to 85%. A list of phones running Symbian OS can be found at http://www.symbian.com/phones/index.html.
To develop Symbian applications you need Symbian OS SDK, Active Perl (to compile applications), Microsoft Debugging Tool for Windows and Visual C++ Toolkit, and Borland C++ BuilderX Mobile Edition or alternative C++ IDE such as Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 or Metrowerk CodeWarrior. Several different versions of Symbian OS SDKs are available. For example Nokia provides two versions: S60 and Series 80 Platform. The differences between versions include differences in UI API. Applications are developed for a specific version of the SDK and need to be ported to other versions to support a broader set of Symbian devices. Native Symbian applications are written primarily in C++. However, the OS also supports J2ME, XHTML browsing, Python, FlashLite, Visual C++ and Visual Basic.
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