The Series 60 Platform is a multi-vendor, open standards-based platform for one-handed smart phone application development. It delivers applications ranging from Web browsing to games to e-mail and messaging services, as well as other PDA functions including synchronization with PC applications such as Outlook. It also allows for video recording and playback. Nokia not only develops its own smart phones using Series 60 but also licenses this development platform to other smart phone manufacturers. The bottomline: Series 60 presents developers with a compelling opportunity to create a new wave of applications and services for global deployment on handsets from multiple manufacturers. Series 60 Software Development, the first book in the Nokia Mobile Developer Series, will be the official guide for developers creating applications for mobile devices based on the feature-rich Series 60 platform. This book covers the complete suite of development tools available for this platform including Series 60 C++ SDK (software development kit) for the Symbian OS. The authors will also cover browser-based application development using WML and XHTML. The authors will explain how to design, develop, test and debug, and deploy real world applications ranging from games to multimedia messaging.
LEIGH EDWARDS is the author of Programming Psion Computers and has been working with Symbian OS for more than six years, since the days of EPOC32 and Psion Software. He is a co-founder of EMCC Software Ltd., a Symbian and Series 60 Competence Center.
RICHARD BARKER has been developing in C++ for ten years, with a background in R&D, artificial intelligence, and real-time training simulators for defense systems. He has been with EMCC Software as a Symbian OS and Series 60 developer for three years, working on interface and engine design, client software to deliver dynamic data services, and development of Symbian OS itself. He is a regular contributor of Series 60 documentation for Forum Nokia.