Programming for the Series 60 Platform and Symbian OS (Symbian Press) [Paperback]

DIGIA Inc. (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 30, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0470849487 | ISBN-13: 978-0470849484 | Edition: 1

The first book covering this platform, written by experts on Series 60.

The Series 60 platform is a smartphone platform designed for Symbian OS. It supports mobile browsing, multimedia messaging (MMS) and content downloading, as well as a host of personal information management and telephony applications.

'Programming for the Series 60 Platform and Symbian OS' integrates all necessary information for application development into one document, including software design, graphics and user interface programming, communications and Java programming on Series 60.

• Includes extensive code examples.
• Associated web site includes Series 60 SDK, code examples and more.

 

Editorial Reviews

Review

"…an excellent book for Java and C++ programmers seeking to develop their knowledge of the series 60 platform…" (M2 Best Books, 19 February 2003)

From the Back Cover

"The solid technology underlying the Series 60 Platform provides mobile software developers with a great opportunity for mobile software innovation. The latest technologies and open standards offered by the Series 60 Platform provide great possibilities to create world-class applications. The user interface and application set provides a host of reusable components that can make an application attractive and easy to use."

Jouko H?yrynen,Vice President, Forum Nokia.

Visit the associated websites at:

www.symbian.com/books
www.digia.com
www.wileyeurope.com

The Series 60 platform, designed for Symbian OS, supports mobile browsing, multimedia messaging service (MMS) and content downloading, as well as many personal information management (PIM) and telephony applications. The exploding market in Symbian OS smartphones means that understanding the key technologies and unique characteristics of programming for embedded devices will be vital in building the applications and services of the future.

Programming for the Series 60 Platform and Symbian OS, written by software professionals at Digia, provides the reader with a complete overview of the Series 60 Platform and its software, and explains the best development practices with numerous examples covering:

• software design and tools
• GUI framework, UI components and UI customization
• communications and messaging interfaces for MMS, SMS, e-mail, smart messaging, Bluetooth, IrDA, and TCP/IP
• User Experience and Interaction Design

• Java MIDP application development

This invaluable handbook will help experienced C++ and Java programmers develop their knowledge of the Series 60 Platform and Symbian OS programming. It will also provide managers, testers and designers with valuable information on architecture interfaces, tools, user experience, and testing.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 550 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (December 30, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470849487
• ISBN-13: 978-0470849484
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7.9 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,084,829 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not what I expected, January 9, 2003

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Jawad Malik "mjawad" (Fort Worth, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Programming for the Series 60 Platform and Symbian OS (Symbian Press) (Paperback)

I expected this book to fill the gaps and give details beyond the Symbian/SDK documentation. This book does not do that at all. There is hardly anything in this book that you can't find else where. The book does not attempt to address "details" of a concept - it rather superficially "touches" a variety of subjects i.e. you can do this or that using Series 60 SDK, or here are the tyes of dialogs, queries etc. Although many of these discussions are accompanied by brief code snippets, those can also be found (in greater detail) in the Symbian/SDK documentation.

It is not a reference book which I expected it to be - rather its a book that explains the Series 60 in some technical detail. It can be helpful to a beginner who is just trying to understand the Series 60 patform, but it fails to assist real developers with real programming issues. This book played minimal part in helping me write my first Series 60 application - I had to rely on the documentation.

I'd give it 2.5 stars since its not completely worthless - but its not what it could/should be. Also you can tell that its been written by many different people as it lacks a consistent style, which I find irritating.