Publisher Addison-Wesley
Author(s) Staff of EMCC Software Ltd.
Release Date 01 March 2004

The first official book on Series 60 Platform development—from design to deployment

Series 60 smartphone developers are deploying the next wave of mobile services. With more than 60% of all mobile phone manufacturers licensing Series 60 Platform, Series 60 represents the smartphone market with the largest user base for mobile application developers.

To help nurture this growing market, Nokia has worked directly with EMCC Software, a leading Symbian and Series 60 Competence Center, to create Developing Series 60 Applications, the definitive guide to Series 60 development for C programmers and software designers. Fully reviewed by Nokia’s subject matter experts, the authors cover the entire development process—from design, programming, and testing to debugging and deployment—while providing sixty complete projects, each with full C source code and installation s.

Developing Series 60 Applications includes coverage of:

* Series 60 development tools, IDEs, and C SDKs
* The underlying Symbian OS
* Application design with the Series 60 framework architecture
* User interface controls, menus, dialogs, lists, and editors
* Basic and advanced Series 60 communications APIs
* Multimedia development: drawings, fonts, bitmaps, animation, and audio
* Invoking standard application views and using application engines
* Building more powerful applications with C APIs
* Series 60 Developer Platforms 1 and 2

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S60 Programming: A Tutorial Guide
Wiley | 0470027657 | April 13, 2007 | 328 pages | PDF | 1 Mb

Based on the authors" experiences in developing and teaching Symbian OS, this practical guide is perfect for programmers and provides a series of example-based scenarios that show how to develop Symbian applications.
Exercises walk the reader through the initial development of a console-based card game engine to a graphical user interface(GUI)-based, two player blackjack game operating over a Bluetooth connection between two mobile phones
Addresses how Symbian offers a number of different variants to allow for different user interfaces and screen savers - the most prevalent of these is S60
Discusses how the move toward 3G technology has resulted in an increasing need for mobile application development for S60 devices.