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Axis 2/C on Symbian

I am doing a little bit of research into consuming web services on mobile platforms. In particular I'm currently looking at the Symbian platform. Now, I've seen gSOAP used from a Symbian environment. Has anyone seen or used the C version of Axis 2 on Symbian at all? I'm attempting to explore multiple options, and in particular support fo...

setting up positioning server on symbian

Hello, Does anyone know how to set up the positioning server programmatically on Symbian S60 phones using Symbian C++. I'm trying to set up the Access point of the positioning server to get the GPS coordinates. Thanks in advance. Ravi ...

tcp connection problem on n73 and nokia 5800

Please help me with solving the following issue. I am trying to connect to a static IP with TCP connection (RSocket). I have N73 device, which uses Vodaphone live(service Provider). As the application tries to connect to the specified IP and Port through the specified service provider, the screen shows connecting for a long time, but no ...

What are good resources if I want to develop RSS feed readers for N97 and E71?

What are good resources if I want to develop RSS feed readers for N97, E71 and other Symbian phones? ...

const char* to TDesC16

Hi I have a const char* that specifies the file that I want to delete. I want to use RF::Delete to delete a file which takes a TDesC16 as input argument. Does anyone know how to easily convert RFs fs; TUint err; const char *pFileToDelete = "c:\\myfile.txt"; if ( fs.Connect () == KErrNone ) { err = fs.Delete(pFileToDelete); fs.Cl...

How to develop products on mobile phones

Hi there, Recently we are going to develop some products on mobile phone (specially for 3g). There are many platforms about mobile phones: iPhone OS, Symbian, Black berry's... If I want to develop a product, should I use Java or write every program for the main platforms? Particular one question for iPhone development: are there many J...

Developing custom list control in 5th edition

If a custom list control is to be developed for S60 5th edition phones, what is the best approach to do that? The control should enable rich presentation of data in custom layouts. It should be possible to include images, texts, buttons in every item. Each list item should be able to expand/collapse to provide more details about the ite...

primary key declaration error while creating table

CreateL() { _LIT(KSQLCountry, "CREATE TABLE Country(CountryID INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT NOT NULL,CountryName VARCHAR(45) NOT NULL,CountryCode VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL)"); User::LeaveIfError(iDatabase.Execute(KSQLCountry)); } while creating table i want to declare for primary key and foreign key which showing run time error (it cr...

Parsing a .sis (symbian) file using java

Im looking to read a .sis file (symbian content) using java, and hopefully try to derive as much meta related information from the binary as possible, such as application name, version, platform support and target languages. I think this can be done from looking at the symbian spec, and I seem to remember another application that did thi...

J2ME VS Android VS iPhone VS Symbian VS Windows CE

I have very little idea about mobile platform, though I am interested to program for mobile platform. Would you please compare between J2ME VS Android VS iPhone VS Symbian VS Windows CE. I would like to know which one is better, and if there is any VM technology to test the programs. Which one should I choose and why? Is there any IDE, d...

Symbian OS S60 Platform

From here I read S60 is currently amongst the leading smartphone platforms in the world. However I can't understand: What the S60 does, what is the need for a platform when there already exists an underlying Symbian OS? If I write applications in Symbian C++ or Java ME is it for the Symbian OS or the S60 platform? Can I directly wr...

Start playing streaming audio on symbian

The tiny question is: How to start (realplayer ?) playing given online resourse (e.g. http://example.com/file.mp3) PyS60, C++ or C# via RedFiveLabs would do. EDIT1: Title changed from "Start RealPlayer on symbian" to the more appropriate. ...

Carbide.c++ 1.2.2 not displaying SDK S60 2nd Edition CW templates

I downloaded Carbide.c++ 1.2 and also downloaded the SDK S60 2nd Edition CW. I installed the SDK and it is recognized in the Window->Preferences->Carbide C++->SDK preferences. but when I try to create a new project, the templates related to the SDK aren't displayed. and the editor seems not to detect the SDK. has anyone ever experienc...

implemenation of service in symbian

In transient server implementation, client application is console based exe i want to know if i integrate my GUI based appplication with client and server given in transient server what is best way 1)whether it is good to convert client exe to dll and use the dll in my application using RLibrary 2)whether it is good to implement LIB ...

Symbian crashes with: FAULT: KERN 0x00000004 (4)

Hi I have a Symbian application which is running fine for a while but after requesting the same sequence of operations for the 10th time or so the Kernel suddenly crashes and I get the following error message: FAULT: KERN 0x00000004 (4) Could anyone help me out what could cause such a Kernel fault? Many thanks! ...

Symbian: clear buffer of RSocket object

Hi, I have to come back once again to sockets in Symbian. Code to set up a connection to a remote server looks as follows: TInetAddr serverAddr; TUint iPort=111; TRequestStatus iStatus; TSockXfrLength len; TInt res = iSocketSrv.Connect(); res = iSocket.Open(iSocketSrv,KAfInet,KSockStream, KProtocolInetTcp); res = iSocket.SetOpt(...

WaitForRequest with Timeout crashes

Hi, EDIT: I have now edited my code a bit to have a rough idea of "all" the code. Maybe this might be helpful to identify the problem ;) I have integrated the following simple code fragement which either cancels the timer if data is read from the TCP socket or otherwise it cancels the data read from the socket // file tcp.cpp void Che...

Development Investment differences between iPhone and Symbian

Which one is cheaper: to develope on top of Symbian or on top of iPhone? Both direct $-figures and time-to-market figures are warmly welcome. ...

Code coverage tools for Symbian C++ and Maemo

What code coverage tools have you used with Symbian C++ and Maemo? What are the pros and cons of the tool you are using? ...

Working with contact list in Symbian and WindowsMobile in a nutshell

I've never developing anything for mobile platforms yet. But now I need an app, that can perform basic read/write/update operations with contact list. It should work in Symbian and WinMobile, but it's normal if we have 2 different applications (but if it's possible then I prefer to make only one). In first version it's not even necessa...