Symbian Example

Python for Nokia S60 platform becomes more and more mature. I guess you might start considering it as a tool for commercial applications already.

Check out the set of tutorials on Python for S60 by Jurgen Scheible, yet another Forum Nokia Champion. There are examples on UI, camera, networking, graphics, etc. And also on how to make the stand-alone S60 application in Python.

And by the way, if you know any commercial S60 application written in Python, please, post a link to the comments. I wonder if PyS60 is already a tool for earning money.

Mika Raento is yet another person, who promotes the need of integration for the modern mobile devices. There is so many useful things a mobile can do and so little ways of making different apps interoperate in practice.
We have (e.g.) the following pieces, none of which are really hot on their own:

• a PIM calendar (organizing your time)
• your mobile phone profile (making the phone not ring when you are at the movies)
• cameraphone (taking bad photos and maybe sending them via MMS)
• GPS (navigation)
• heart rate sensor on your fitness watch (tracking the level of exercise when running)
• Bluetooth (sending business cards?)
• smartphone and 3G connection (reading e-mail)

What if we make these play together?

A nice article by Steve Litchfield on Symbian smartphone memory consumption: Keeping It Clean, Keeping It Smooth. Includes numbers for different phones and different application. Check it out when planning your application memory budget.

Via Kern Computing

A huge amount of Symbian code examples by Mika Raento. All licenced under GPL and MIT. For example Receiving SMS, Profile API and even Debug call stack.

Note, that these code examples are not completely standalone, but are a part of a big Context research project and for the most of examples you'll have to download some extra files.