which format has a event in a symbian calendar?
i want to write a program which syncs google calendar with symbian calendar on my smartphone, because there's no good solution for that!
edit: can i access symbian calendar on a smartphone via symbian-API?
Yes, you can. Check out CCalSession and CCalEntryView classes. Search Forum Nokia Wiki for samples or google these classes
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I'm looking to create a mobile app that controls lights that are connected to a Google Home, is this possible? I'm basically looking for a Google Home equivalent to Apple's HomeKit framework.
This is a similar question, but also three years old, so I'm wondering if anything has changed, or changing soon with Matter.
The platform does not give programmatic access to developers to the devices in their home. In this regard nothing has changed up to this point. I cannot speculate what may happen in the future.
What is the difference between symbian belle and Symbian Anna? Is it just small updation of Symbian ^3 or entirely a new os?
Belle offers six home screens and the previous siblings of Symbian have 3 home screens only.
Widgets have been redesigned and are now available in five different sizes. Widgets can be rearranged to create complete personalized home screen.
Belle has taken a neat approach to notifications through – a pull down notification tab that incorporates common setting, notification for incoming messages, missed calls, etc.
Belle has introduced a toggle widget for one touch operation of Bluetooth, profile, Wi-Fi, etc.
Lock screen is active in Symbian Belle. It will tell about missed calls, incoming message, etc. Colored wallpaper can also be added to lock screen.
Near Field Communication (NFC) is integrated in the Symbian Belle operating system.
Belle incorporates new apps such as Microsoft Lync – an IM for business, SharePoint, OneNote, Exchange ActiveSync, and PowerPoint Broadcaster.
Symbian Anna is the name for Symbian^3 PR2 (and PR means product release).
Symbian Belle is the name of the next update, and is a considerably larger update than Anna, with lots of UI changes.
Both use the same Symbian operating system, although Belle will have more updates. Most applications should be able to run on Symbian^3, Symbian Anna and Symbian Belle phones.
Symbian Anna can be updated on existing Symbian^3 phones such as the Nokia N8.
Symbian Belle can also be updated on Symbian^3 and Symbian Anna phones.
Nokia has made a specific point of making both of the updates fully compatible with older handsets on the same basic platform, so Symbian^3 handsets such as the Nokia N8 and Nokia E7 have been issued with a Symbian Anna update, and will also benefit from an update to Symbian Belle too.
That will leave a single group of high-end Symbian handsets all running on the latest Symbian Belle platform within the next few months.
So what about the updates themselves? A common question we're seeing right now is which is the bigger update – Symbian Anna or Symbian Belle? Well, we say this having not had a chance to actually try out Symbian Belle yet, but it seems obvious even at this stage that it's a far more bigger step forward than Symbian Anna is, which is great news indeed.
In terms of headline improvements, Symbian Anna offers an attractive new icon design and font, a better web browser plus updates to other Nokia services, a portrait-style QWERTY keyboard and split-screen text entry.
Symbian Belle offers a doubling of the number of homescreens you can work with, the introduction of more flexible homescreen widgets in several different sizes, a wide range of NFC capabilities (though that will of course rely on your phone itself being NFC-enabled, which of the current range only the Nokia C7 is), a new status bar which takes a neat drop-down approach to notifications, dynamic real-time multitasking previews and a lock screen that shows additional detail, such as incoming messages and missed calls.
We'll have plenty of time to delve into the specifics of each of these improvements in due course, but as a whole they certainly give us a lot to look forward to.
There's no sign yet of any device-specific features being rolled out with the Symbian Belle update, as we've seen for the Nokia C7 and Nokia N8 with Symbian Anna. Time will tell, but we're certainly not complaining about what we've seen so far.
What do you make of Symbian Belle in the light of what Symbian Anna has to offer? Do you think the new features being lined up make for a bigger step forward than we've seen in Symbian Anna? Let us know what you think in the Comments!
I'm planning to write a small app that should work on at least the popular smartphone devices, but would like (if possible) to write it only once for all platforms (using something like jQuery Mobile).
Is there any way to retrieve (to within at least street-level accuracy) the current GPS position of a mobile device, without writing custom code for each possible platform?
If you're programming natively, you're out of luck. Apple iOS and Android are very different beasts. Your best bet would be a browser application. The geolocation API is standardized: http://www.w3.org/TR/geolocation-API/
i need some help!, i am planning to develop such LBS Mobile Application which find nearest things based on gps data from mobile.
1.what are the best free and (preferably) open source technologies for development?.
2.What programming language to use for development of such application?.
3.what are the points to be considered?
I need the general overview of the requirements for planning, I was interested in having a general understanding of the data, tools, and frameworks required to accomplish the job.
The future proof way to write your application is using Web technologies.
Iphone and Android devices already support the W3C Geolocation API, with more on the way.
I recommend you take a look at a sample http://geo.webvm.net/ to get you started.
On Symbian phones, you can access location information via C++, java (when JSR-256 is implemented) and probably python.
You might also want to look into the Qt runtime as that is the new technology to use for Symbian development.
To start with Symbian application development, start with the Fundation's developer wiki
Both StackOverflow and Forum Nokia contain information about how to use JSR-256.
Relevant plug: There is whole chapter on LBS in Quick Recipes on Symbian OS.
Is it possible to develop an online calendar, if a user clicks on 'Import', all the events should automatically get imported into outlook or iCal?
Importing data into Outlook or iCal can be done using a suitable export format. Direct import would require writing a browser plugin, it's possible but probably not feasible.
More or less. Certainly you can provide data in the standard iCal format (and it is used to nice effect on http://conferences.yapceurope.org — having selected which talks you wish to attend at a multitrack conference, it will generate a custom iCal file for you).
That works with Google Calendar and with Apple iCal. I have no idea what Microsoft Outlook supports.