Symbian Blog: Articles by satum

Hi, I’m Satu Dahl, editor in the Symbian Technical Communications team, and I’m pleased to let you know that we’ve now published the long-awaited ‘Porting to the Symbian Platform’ book by Mark Wilcox and a team of expert co-authors: Ivan Litovski, David Caabeiro, Paul Todd, Jo Stichbury, Gabor Torok, Gabor Morvay, Vinod Vijayarajan, Lucian Piros, Lauri Aalto and Will Bamberg.

Symbian is (in)famous for its special dialect of C++. However, over the last few years a lot of effort has been made to allow developers to write standard C/C++ and POSIX compliant code for the platform. There are also several popular open source libraries available, including a Standard Template Library implementation.

Code for most of these can be found in the Generic OS Services package. The move to use Qt as the native application framework continues the trend to make Symbian an ever more open source and porting-friendly platform. The recent post from Paul Beusterien shows we’re also trying to align our tools strategy with this same philosophy.

If you want to write mobile applications without the idioms of Symbian C++, have existing software assets that you’d like to re-use on Symbian devices, or are an open source developer still waiting for an open Linux-based device to gain significant market penetration, this is the book for you!

The book can be purchased from Amazon or Wiley website and Wiley will also be selling it at SEE in October.

We have a created a Wiki page for the book where you can find a sample chapter, detailed table of contents and other useful information.

Happy reading!