Article DetailsSymbian Programming - Interesting Facts |
| Date Added: October 11, 2011 07:13:57 AM |
| Author: weobmaster29 |
| Category: Network Apps: Tools |
| It is a common knowledge that cell phone industry is rapidly developing now. The smartphones have also taken their essential position in the range of possibilities given by the cell phone application developers. In this respect it is hard to overrate the role of Symbian OS. People that are acquainted with the secret mechanisms of Symbian OS operation confirm that the system is responsible for the promotion and improvement of the efficient cooperation of all the mobile technologies. The number of smartphones that run Symbian OS is increasing with time, and now their amount is significantly higher than 32 million. Though most end users don't pay particular attention to what operating system is installed to their mobile phone, it's truly essential to understand that the OS has an essential influence on the method of operation of the smartphone and all the applications installed. The role of operating system on a smartphone can be shortly described by fulfilling the following tasks: - First of all, the system should make it simpler for the software of the smartphone to use the phone hardware and the phone network; - Moreover, the significant task of operating system on a smartphone is to avoid conflicts between various applications. If there are a wide number of applications on the smartphone, there is a necessity for the most sophisticated operating system. It concerns particularly the case when the applications on the smartphone are provided by different sources, for instance: - Applications given by the supplier of the operating system - Applications from the producer of the smartphone - Applications given by the operator of the network - Applications from the corporate information technologies department in relation to the smartphones that are applied for business purposes - Applications from the third parties - Applications purchased or downloaded by the end consumer. Taking into account that the developers of the applications are particularly interested in having their applications installed on the smartphones of different models from different producers, it's quite logical that the developers of applications concentrate on the APIs (application programming interfaces) given by the OS, not on the smartphone hardware and networks. It is considerably more productive to develop the applications that may be used on a great variety of smartphones and networks. The differences between the smartphones and networks are taken into account by the operating system, not by the software developers. In such a way, the developers of applications can be certain that their software initially invented for mobile phones from a certain producer can be simply applied at the cell phones from other manufacturers, generally without introducing any changes to these software. |
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