Developing Software for Symbian OS -- Contents -- Foreword (Jo Stichbury) -- Foreword (Warren Day) -- Biography -- Author Acknowledgments -- Symbian Press Acknowledgments -- Symbian OS Code Conventions and Notations Used in the Book -- 1 Smartphones and Symbian OS -- 1.1 Notes on this New Edition -- 1.2 Smartphone Concepts -- 1.3 Smartphone Features -- 1.4 The Mobile OS -- 1.5 Symbian OS - A Little History -- 1.6 Symbian OS Smartphones -- 1.7 Other Smartphone Operating Systems -- 2 Symbian OS Quick Start -- 2.1 What Do You Need to Get Started? -- 2.2 Firing Up the Development Tools -- 2.3 Simple Example Application -- 2.4 Building and Executing on the Emulator -- 2.5 A Carbide.c++ Project -- 2.6 Building for the Smartphone -- 3 Symbian OS Architecture -- 3.1 Components in Symbian OS -- 3.2 Multitasking in Symbian OS -- 3.3 Shared Code: Libraries, DLLs, and Frameworks -- 3.4 Client-Server Model -- 3.5 Memory in Symbian OS -- 3.6 The Kernel -- 3.7 Active Objects and Asynchronous Functions -- 3.8 GUI Architecture -- 3.9 High-Performance Graphics -- 3.10 The Communication Architecture -- 3.11 Application Engines and Services -- 3.12 Platform Security -- 4 Symbian OS Programming Basics -- 4.1 Use of C++ in Symbian OS -- 4.2 Non-standard C++ Characteristics -- 4.3 Basic Data Types -- 4.4 Symbian OS Classes -- 4.5 Exception Error Handling and Cleanup -- 4.6 Libraries -- 4.7 Executable Files -- 4.8 Naming Conventions -- 4.9 Summary -- 5 Symbian OS Build Environment -- 5.1 SDK Directory Structure -- 5.2 Build System Overview -- 5.3 Basic Build Flow -- 5.4 Build Targets -- 5.5 What is a UID? -- 5.6 The Emulator -- 5.7 Building Shared Libraries -- 5.8 DLL Interface Freezing -- 5.9 Installing Applications on the Smartphone -- 6 Strings, Buffers, and Data Collections -- 6.1 Introducing the Text Console -- 6.2 Descriptors for Strings and Binary Data.

6.3 The Descriptor Classes -- 6.4 Descriptor Methods -- 6.5 Converting Between 8-Bit and 16-Bit Descriptors -- 6.6 Dynamic Buffers -- 6.7 Templates in Symbian OS -- 6.8 Arrays -- 6.9 Other Data Collection Classes -- 7 Platform Security and Symbian Signed -- 7.1 What is Platform Security? -- 7.2 What Platform Security is Not -- 7.3 What this Means to a Developer -- 7.4 Capabilities for API Security -- 7.5 Application Signing in Symbian -- 7.6 Getting Your Application Symbian Signed -- 7.7 Developer Certificates -- 8 Asynchronous Functions and Active Objects -- 8.1 Asynchronous Functions -- 8.2 Introducing Active Objects -- 8.3 The Active Scheduler -- 8.4 Active Scheduler Error Handling -- 8.5 Active Object Priorities -- 8.6 Canceling Outstanding Requests -- 8.7 Removing an Active Object -- 8.8 Active Object Example -- 8.9 Active Object Issues -- 8.10 Using Active Objects for Background Tasks -- 9 Processes, Threads, and Synchronization -- 9.1 Processes -- 9.2 Using Threads on Symbian OS -- 9.3 Sharing Memory Between Processes -- 9.4 Memory Chunks -- 9.5 Thread Synchronization -- 10 Client-Server Framework -- 10.1 Client-Server Overview -- 10.2 A Look at the Client-Server Classes -- 10.3 Client-Server Example -- 11 Symbian OS TCP/IP Network Programming -- 11.1 Introduction to TCP/IP -- 11.2 Network Programming Using Sockets -- 11.3 Symbian OS Socket API -- 11.4 Example: Retrieving Weather Information -- 11.5 Making a Network Connection -- 12 GUI Application Programming -- 12.1 Symbian OS User Interfaces -- 12.2 Anatomy of a GUI Application -- 12.3 Application Classes -- 12.4 Resource Files -- 12.5 Dialogs -- 12.6 Symbian OS Controls -- 12.7 View Architecture -- 12.8 Application Icon and Caption -- References -- Index.