Wavefront and SFU Present "Developing Apps for Symbian"

EVENT DETAILS

Date: Friday, May 28, 2010
Time: 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM (PST)
Location: Discovery Parks Vancouver, 887 Great Northern Way
Cost: Free. Pre-registration is required, as seating is limited.

 

SUMMARY

Calling all mobile application developers to attend this seminar and learn the basics about developing apps on the Symbian platform. According to ABI Research, more than 330 million cell phones run Symbian OS with a 48% global market share for smartphones. Developers will learn how to leverage the Symbian Horizon Program, an application-publishing platform that allows developers to write an application once and publish it in dozens of Symbian app stores worldwide, and how to port apps from other platforms to Symbian.

A tour of the various runtimes available to the Symbian developer will be presented along with how to choose the appropriate runtime. Qt provides us with a compelling application and UI framework for C++ allowing you to write web-enabled applications once and deploy them across desktop, mobile and embedded operating systems without rewriting the source code. The Web runtime is a great way to extend your website onto the mobile. Python is available too with bindings to phone specific functionality.

Regardless of your expertise, we promise to share a few tips and tricks that will help you maximize the platform and develop great apps. And, we'll be giving away free prizes to a few lucky attendees.

 

 

AGENDA

• 08:30 – 09:00 AM     Breakfast, Registration and Networking
  
• 09:00 – 09:10 AM     Welcome from Wavefront
  
• 09:10 – 10:45 AM     Symbian Presentation
• Symbian Foundation Overview
• Symbian Horizon Program
• Porting Apps to Symbian
• Runtimes Walk-through: Qt, Web, J2ME, Python
  
• 10:45 – 11:30 AM     Questions & Answers / Networking
  

 

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

John Kern - Member of the Technical Staff, Symbian Foundation

John is a consulting engineer at Symbian, supporting the Horizon group. He helps developers build applications and extend their web, telephony and mobile assets to the Symbian platform. John is an experienced software engineer with over 20 years of experience in the industry. Prior to working for Symbian, he was a freelance software developer focused on the Symbian platform. He has also developed IVRs and web services in the mobile space. Previously, he worked for Numerical Technology/Synopsis around electronic design automation and Sun Microsystems in the programming languages and environments.

 

ABOUT SYMBIAN

Symbian is an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to enable an open ecosystem dedicated to creating the most innovative user experiences on mobile devices. Symbian maintains the code for an open source software platform based on Symbian OS and software assets contributed by Nokia, NTT DOCOMO, and Sony Ericsson, including the S60 and MOAP(S) user interfaces. The Symbian platform is now fully open source.

The foundation promotes collaboration, contributions and active participation, and operates as a meritocracy. Symbian's board of directors comprises: AT&T Mobility LLC, Fujitsu Limited, Nokia Corporation, NTT DOCOMO, INC., Qualcomm Innovation Center, Ltd., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, ST Microelectronics NV, Texas Instruments Inc., and Vodafone Group Services Ltd.

Symbian has offices in the UK (London), US (Foster City), Japan (Tokyo), Finland (Helsinki), China (Beijing) and South Korea (Seoul).

For more information please visit www.symbian.org and http://blog.symbian.org

 

ABOUT WAVEFRONT

Wavefront is the community-based commercialization center accelerating the growth of Canada's wireless and new media development companies. Wavefront improves speed-to-market and delivery of mobile applications and devices by providing emerging companies with a suite of WaveGuide™ training, mobile industry advisory, incubation and testing services that facilitate market linkages and commercial engagement with mobile network operators and enterprise companies around the world.