Symbian Tools

Paul Beusterien
Head of Development Tools
Symbian Foundation
Agenda

• Symbian Tools Plans

• Development Environment Overview

• Web Development For Mobile

• Join the Symbian Tools Community

Symbian Tools Team Mission

• Provide good usable tools to foster

application development community

• In addition to platform tools for handset

manufacturers, also provide compelling
tools for app developers

• Use open source to foster community for

tools development (as well as tools usage)
Symbian Tooling Improvement Areas

• Usability
• Replace the emulator
• On-target debugging
• Linux and Mac development support
• Fix Symbian signed
• Modern compilers
• Hello world experience (Getting Started)
Symbian Tools Team Priorities
• Cross-platform tooling for app developers
• Productize gcc, gdb, and QEMU for Symbian
• Collaborate with Carbide and Eclipse
communities to improve IDE
• Especially usability!
• Engage with Eclipse Pulsar and Sequoyah projects
• Attract Web developers
• Pure Eclipse web development and
deployment tools
• Work with package owners to lead a
vibrant open source tools community
Packages
Eclipse Environment Dynamic Analysis Apps
IDE Dynamic Analysis C & C

SDK Creation Apps Dynamic Analysis MW

SDK Creation Middleware OS RnD Tools
Home Screen Tools Platform Tools

Test Management RnD Tools

Test Execution Static Analysis Apps

Test Frameworks Device Debug Services
Build Tools Stubs
Host Environments User Interface

Compatibility Analysis User Interface Tools

SW Configuration MW SW Configuration Apps
Packages Roadmap Highlights

• Compatibility Tools – Qt API support

• Device Debugger – USB plug & play, SMP
• Dyn Analysis – Open System Trace
• IDE – Eclipse 3.5, Qt support
• OS RnD – Allow non-manufacture SIS
• SW Config – Carbide.ct
• Static Analysis – SMP checking
• UI – Symbian^n theming
 Develop your way
Symbian allows you to develop your way in the tools and languages you use already

Languages/Runtimes Tools

Html/CSS/JavaScript

Flash Lite
Web Development

• There is an order or two of magnitude

more web developers than C++
developers

• Some trends to support increasingly

complex Web application development :
• JavaScript and jslint
• html5
• Google Web Toolkit (GWT)
“Widget” or “Web Development”?

• Widget – “(short for windows gadget) is

an element of a graphical user interface
(GUI) that displays an information
arrangement changeable by the user,
such as a window or a text box.”
• from wikipedia

• It’s time for the mobile to think about

developing more than widgets with web
technologies!
Mobile Web Development Challenges

• Accessing mobile features

• Geo Location
• Vibration
• Accelerometer
• Contacts

• Deployment

• Security
Mobile Web Development (1)
• WRT
• Web runtime from Nokia
• JavaScript API on WebServices
• phonegap
• Cross-Platform JavaScript API
• Currently supports iPhone, Android and RIM
• Bondi
• Cross-Platform JavaScript API with security
features
• Currently supports Windows Mobile
Mobile Web Development (2)
• Appcelerator Titanium
• Cross-platform (mostly) mobile JavaScript API
• Standard APIs plus phone-specific features
APIs
• Currently supports iPhone and Android
• Converts JavaScript/html/css to native code
• RhoMobile’s Rhodes framework
• Cross-platform mobile deployment Ruby API
• Adds device specific APIs
• Supports iPhone, Windows Mobile, RIM,
Symbian and Android
Join the Symbian Tools Community

Developer Site at
http://developer.symbian.org

Tools Forum at
http://developer.symbian.org/forum/foru
mdisplay.php?f=42

Paul’s blog is at
http://paulbsymbian.wordpress.com/

Follow me on twitter at paulbeusterien

Email paulb@symbian.org
Tools at SEE09 - Tuesday

12:30 Device Debug Technologies

Ronnie King, Nokia

14:30 QEMU Simulator

Johnathan White, Accenture

16:00 Extending Carbide.C++

Dan Podwall, Nokia

16:30 Improving Mobile Web Developer
Experience

Tasneem Sayeed, Symbian
Tools at SEE09 - Wednesday

11:00 Tool support for developer
collaboration

Mik Kersten, Tasktop

12:30 Perf analysis and diagnostics

Adrian Issott, Nokia

14:00 Raptor – next generation build

Daniel Jacobs – Nokia

14:00 Using Open-Source Technology to
Build Symbian Applications

Mark Mitchell - CodeSourcery
Thanks !

• Symbian Tools Plans

• Development Environment Overview

• Web Development For Mobile

• Join the Symbian Tools Community