In 2009, we established the Symbian Foundation to make the Symbian platform available open source and royalty-free. In November 2010 we announced that the foundation would ramp down its operational activities as a result of changes in global economic and market conditions. We are now well underway with transitioning the foundation from a non-profit organisation responsible [...]
It covers everything from an overview of the Python programming language syntax through to how to write graphical applications that take advantage of touch screen, networking, sensors and other features of modern mobile devices. This definitely is a book for the faint-hearted, while still offering plenty of useful advice and tips for expert developers.
Michele Cerretta from Pizero Design was at the theming kiosk at SEE 2010 helping attendees to personalise and customise their Symbian devices.
Symbian is the only themeable platform that allows you to completely change the appearance of your device wi…
They can create the real physical feeling of a keyboard on your touch screen device, simulate the actual weight of a ball moving around on your device’s screen or enable you to feel the beat and rhythm of your ringtone, even when on silent.
PackageForge provides a unified interface for creating installation packages for your applications to really simplify and speed up these tasks. If you’ve only created basic packages by reusing the already created packages in Carbide.c++ or Qt Creator wizards, you might not have had many problems with it. But for anyone that’s ever created multilingual packages, translated to multiple languages, conditional installation or other more advanced features, there have been lots of frustrations and room for error.
Jo Harlow, Senior Vice President, Symbian Smartphones at Nokia, talks about their presence at SEE 2010, development on Qt and future Symbian devices.
Tim talks to us at SEE 2010 about the event, the community and the recent changes at Symbian.
Here we are at Day 2 of SEE 2010 and even though one or two attendees are feeling the effects of last night’s awesome party at the Heineken Experience, we’re all enjoying the fascinating BoFs, demos and presentations in the three tracks that are on today. Tim Holbrow has just presented the Symbian Open Source [...]
Day 1 of SEE 2010 is well and truly underway and there’s an exciting buzz in the air. Attendees have been discovering all the cool apps and demos in the Experience Zone, catching up with old friends and colleagues, and taking part in promising discussions and meetings with other members of the Symbian community. It’s [...]
Yesterday we made an announcement that the Symbian Foundation board has decided to transition the non-profit organization to being a pure licensing body. This means there will be an immediate reduction in staff and activity and by April 2011, the Symbian Foundation will be governed by a group of non-executive directors tasked with overseeing the [...]