Tutorials - Overview

Mobile development can be quite difficult to get into. Because of that, Mopius has released several tutorials that will maybe help you with getting started. All of them are available for free. Enjoy browsing, reading and developing your future best-selling applications!

Categories:

• Symbian OS: training material for Symbian OS C++ development.
• Java ME: training material for Java ME development.
• Technical Reports: documents giving an short overview of interesting topics.
• Archive: previous tutorials, partly not up-to-date anymore.

Symbian OS

General topics

• Symbian (OS) Overview
• Introduction to Smartphones
• Quickstart
• Console Applications
• Working with Symbian OS 9
• Platform Security
• Python / PyS60

Basics of Symbian OS

• Types and Declarations
• Memory Management
• Descriptors
• (Dynamic) Arrays

Advanced Concepts

• Active Objects
• Client-Server Framework
• Communication and Messaging
• Multimedia Framework

Graphical User Interfaces

• GUI Architectures
• S60
• UIQ 3

General Training

• Error Hunt

Java ME

Training materials

• Overview
• High Level UI
• Low Level Graphics
• Timer, Tasks and Threads
• Game API
• Record Stores, Distribution and Localization
• Generic Connection Framework, HTTP and Sockets
• Mobile 3D Graphics

Technical Reports

• An introduction to Widgets with particular emphasis on Mobile Widgets
• Mobile Application Prototyping with Python for S60

Archive

Previous tutorials based on Microsoft Visual Studio:

• Getting Started with Nokia's Carbide.vs 2.0 Development Tools
• Installation Instructions for Nokia Developer's Suite
• Integrating SymScan with Microsoft Visual Studio .net
• Workshop: Getting started with Symbian OS and Nokia's Developer Suite

Old tutorials:

• Workshop: Mopoid - your own Symbian OS game
• The Workflow of Game Development: The Journey, a location based game