Python for S60 (PyS60), a Nokia’s port of the Python language to the Symbian S60 smartphone platform, recently got its Wiki. Located on the open source part of the Nokia’s site, PyS60 Wiki provides answers to many questions. Here you will find the latest PyS60 news, installation issues, documentation, information about extension modules, bugs, as…
Porting to S60 3rd Edition Discussion Group
Forum Nokia Discussion Boards created a new discussion group dedicated to porting applications to S60 3rd Edition. The group was initially aimed for developers from other platforms and for porting S60 2nd edition applications to 3rd edition. Ron Liechty, Forum Nokia author, is planning to organize the way developers access the messages from the Discussion…
Creating feature rich connected games with SNAP Mobile
SNAP Mobile powered games let users connect, compete and communicate with their friends; and have community features such as ranking, match making and personalization features that promote participation and create returning users and very repeat business. Ferdy Blaset, a Forum Nokia Champion, has a very interesting post on the subject. He uses Lucky Ranch Tycoon,…
Call for Developers – Become a Forum Nokia Champion
Symbian, JAVA developers, the next round of selections for the Forum Nokia Champion program begins this month. All Forum Nokia members are invited to apply for this valuable developer-recognition program, which was launched in February. Applications for one-year memberships in the Forum Nokia Champion program are accepted every six months. The nearly 60 developers who…
Kishonti Informatics Announces GLBenchmark Series of OpenGL ES Benchmarks
Kishonti Informatics, the worldwide leader of mobile performance benchmarking, has announced availability of the beta versions of GBenchmark Pro and GLBenchmark HD – 3D performance benchmarks for OpenGL ES compatible Brew, Linux, Symbian and Windows Mobile devices. The new benchmarks not only measure OpenGL ES 1.0 and 1.1 application performance, but also let direct comparison…
Ten tips for making better games
Not exactly the pure Symbian topic, but somehow related. In a recent interview Jeanne Kolesnik from Epocware shared advice for Symbian developers on how to create a successful mobile applications people want to buy. On the similar subject, Pocket Gamer site managing director, shares some guidelines that could help mobile developers everywhere make better games.…
FAQs on Forum Nokia Discussion Boards
I’ve already wrote about UIQ Knowlegebase. Now, Forum Nokia has a similar thing for Symbian S60 developers. A number of “Frequently Asked Questions” sticky posts has been added on Forum Nokia Discussion boards as they’ve seen same questions asked over and over again on the developer discussion boards. The goal is to remove this unnecessary…
Porting to UIQ 3.0 Special Interest Paper
Sony Ericsson Developer World prepared a special interest paper which provides developers with technical guidelines, code examples and suggestions on how to port applications to UIQ 3 from UIQ 2, Windows Mobile, Palm OS and other Symbian OS platforms. The document also outlines the changes introduced with UIQ 3 and Symbian OS v9.1, suggests a…
UIQ Knowlegebase – a companion to the discussion forums
In a recent post I’ve mentioned the reorganization of the UIQ Developer Community. As my intent is to motivate and inform the developer to start programming for the new Symbian v9 platform, this time I’ll go just a bit further and will say something about UIQ Knowledgebase. UIQ Knowledgebase is a practical complement to the…
Nokia N93 to bring 3d gaming
Fuad Abazovic from The Inquirer heard from several sources that Nokia N93 features Power VR architecture inside. It uses a new Texas instruments Omap 2 chip that uses the Power VR, MXB core inside. Now, I didn’t know which chip N93 will sport, but support for the OpenGL ES 1.1 was already announced. Even more,…