Full Example Code List

This document lists the example code available for each module and collection in the platform.

The following tables are grouped by module and collection. In each table, the left hand column gives a link to the overview for the example. The overviews describe the example's purpose, the APIs it demonstrates, how to build and run it, and they provide a link to download the example's source code.

In most cases, the name in the left hand column is the example's mmp filename. If the example has more than one mmp file, the name of its directory is used. The right hand column gives a summary of the main purpose of the example.

Symbian Platform Fundamentals

Name	Description
HelloWorld	Most basic console application.
CClasses	Shows a basic 'C' class and use of the cleanup stack.
TAndRClasses	Shows a typical 'T' and 'R' class.
MClasses1-3	Shows the use of 'M' (abstract interface) classes.
StaticDLL	Shows how a statically linked DLL is used.

Bluetooth

Name	Description
RockPaperScissorsGame	how to create a multiplayer game that uses Bluetooth wireless technology to allow two players to play together

Classic UI

Name	Description
O and X Game	How to use controller and engine in a game
O and X viewarch Game	How to implement a multiple view Cross and noughts game
Graphics Images Example	How to draw images to the control

Communications Framework

Data Server

Name	Description
Rconnection	Shows how to use the RConnection API for connection monitoring and management.

Socket Server

S60_weather	How to connect to a site and get weather information
IRDevice: Connectivity	How to created an IPC channel to the socket server and gets the information for the protocol

Device Services

Resource Management

Name	Description
VibraPool Game	How to specify settings and start vibration

NFC

Name	Description
nfcshareexample	Shows how two devices get paired using the NFC channel and share a vCard and vCal from one device to other device.
nfctagsexample	Shows the usage of tag discovery and NDEF discovery APIs and readwrite operations performed with tags.

Generic Application Support

Common App Services

Name	Description
AlarmServerExample	Shows the client API to the alarm server.
BmpAnimGui	Shows how to create an animation using the Bitmap Animation framework.
HelloWorld	Shows how to create a simple GUI application with a single view.

Generic OS Services

Compression Libraries

Name	Description
EzlibExample	Shows how to use the EZLIB API to do file extraction and compression.

Generic Open Libraries

Name	Description
FileAccessExample	Shows accessing the file system using P.I.P.S.
HelloWorldExample	Creates a simple P.I.P.S. DLL and EXE to demonstrate function lookup by name rather than by ordinal.
hybridapp	Shows a P.I.P.S. 'hybrid' application that uses both C and native Symbian C++ APIs.
IPC	Shows inter-process communication in P.I.P.S.
LibpThreadExample	Shows simple multi-threading and synchronisation in P.I.P.S. using `libpthread.dll`.
libmexample	Shows the P.I.P.S. Standard C maths library, `libm.dll`.
posixsignals	Shows various signal use cases as supported in P.I.P.S.

Open C

Name	Description
openclibz	Shows file compression/decompression. Huffman , filtered data compression, run length encoding, compress a string given by user
handleglobalvar	How to handle global variables within the library code. How to solve WSD (Writable Static Data) problem
opencmessagequeuelibraryex	Send/receive messages using message queue, demonstrated using open C message queue library
opencproducerconsumerex	Demonstrates solution for Producer/ Consumer Problem using Open C.
OpenCStringUtilitiesEx	Demonstrates string utility using open C libraries
redirectprintf	how to redirect stdio to a file. libc library provides freopen API to redirect all standard IOs (namely, stderr, stdin, or stdout).

Generic Services

Name	Description
exampleRecognizer	Shows how to write a simple data recognizer.

TaskSchedulerExample	Shows how to schedule and run tasks using the Task Scheduler API.

Low level Libraries and Frameworks

Name	Description
Basics	Shows how to store and restore objects using the clipboard API.
ReadText	Most basic resource file example, shows how to read a string resource and print it to the console.
ReadArray	Shows how to load data from a resource file into an array.
MultiRead1	Shows how to open a single resource file and read a resource from it into a descriptor.
MultiRead2	Shows how to open and read from multiple resource files.
ReadData	Shows how to use a resource reader to read data of various types from a resource file into the data members of a class.
EUser High Level Library	Shows how to use EUser High Level library classes and APIs
SigCheck	Shows how the signature of a resource file is checked before use.

Graphics

Font and Bitmap Server

Name	Description
BitmapsShell	Shows how to draw and manipulate bitmaps.

Kernel and Hardware Services

User Library

Name	Description
AdvancedClientServerExample	Shows the use of asynchronous and synchronous client/server APIs using a logical device driver (LDD) and a physical device driver (PDD).
SingleRequest	Shows the basic principles of asynchronous programming by issuing and waiting for completion of a single request.
WaitLoop	Shows how a wait loop can be used to identify and handle a completed request.
RealLifeWaitLoop	Shows how the wait loop can deal with multiple asynchronous service providers.
RunComplete	Shows how active objects and an active scheduler can be used to handle asynchronous events, using a timer.
AcceptInput1-2	Shows how active objects and an active scheduler can be used to handle asynchronous events, using keyboard input.
AcceptPrintInput	Shows how active objects and an active scheduler can be used to handle accept and print keyboard inputs to a console.
Fibonacci1-3	Shows how active objects and an active scheduler can be used to handle asynchronous events and long-running services to maintain system responsiveness.
circularbuffer	Shows how to construct and use circular buffers holding different types of objects.
Simple	Shows a simple client that has a single session with a server.
Complex	More complex client/server example, where the server supports multiple subsessions within a session.
condvarglobal	Shows the use of the global condition variable IPC mechanism.
condvarlocal	Shows the use of the local condition variable IPC mechanism.
Basics	Shows date and time handling.
DescriptorsExample	Shows how to handle different types of descriptors.
DynamicArrays	Shows how to construct and use dynamic arrays.
DynamicBuffers	Shows how to use the flat and segmented buffer classes.
DLLs	Implements two polymorphic DLLs and shows how to load and use them.
RangeChecking	Shows how to use the range checking wrapper class for C++ arrays (`TFixedArray`).
hashtableexample	Shows how to use the hash table APIs.
Lexer	Shows how to use the lexical analyser, TLex.
linkedlist	Shows how to use singly and doubly linked lists and the delta queue class.
Currency	Shows locale-specific representation of currency values and symbols.
localeupdate	Shows how to load a locale DLL and read settings from it.
ErrorOnFail	Shows use of the `TRAPD` macro, the cleanup stack and the process of leaving. Returns an error code on failure.
LeaveOnFail	As the `ErrorOnFail` example except it leaves on failure.
ELeaveOnFail	As the `LeaveOnFail` example except it calls `new (ELeave)` rather than `new`.
TrapD	Shows the use of the `TRAPD` macro.
PushLAndPop	Shows the use of the cleanup stack and its functions `PushL()` and `Pop()`.
PushLPopDest	Shows the use of the cleanup stack and its functions `PushL()` and `PopAndDestroy()`.
NewL	Shows use of the `NewL()` static function.
NewLC	Shows use of the `NewLC()` static function.
SimpleOOM	Shows cleanup handling for compound classes.
MemLeakOOM	Shows cleanup handling for compound classes, and avoiding memory leaks.
TwoPhaseOOM	Shows the two phase construction technique.
TAnyRObjects1	Shows how cleanup can be implemented for `TAny*` type objects and 'R' type (resource type) objects.
TAnyRObjects2	As `TAnyRObjects1` except it calls `OpenLC()` to open the file and push it onto the cleanup stack in one function call.
Utilities	Shows how to use the cleanup functions `CleanupDeletePushL()`, `CleanupClosePushL()` and `CleanupReleasePushL()`, and `CleanupArrayDeletePushL()`.
MessageQueueExample	Shows the use of the message queue in interprocess communication.
pubsub	Shows the Publish and Subscribe IPC mechanism.
rbufexample	Shows how to use the resizable buffer descriptor class RBuf.
SecureServer	Shows how to use the policy server framework.
tcharexample	Shows how to use the single character class, `TChar`, and its derived classes.
TLS1	Shows the use of thread local storage (TLS) in a DLL, that is set and accessed from a separate executable.
ThreadRendezvous	Shows the principle of synchronisation using the thread rendezvous technique.
BasicTimer	Shows the asynchronous timer class `RTimer`
Periodic	Shows the differences between a periodic and a heartbeat timer.
SemaphoreExample	Shows how to use semaphores for a multithreading application.

Location

Name	Description
FindMe: LBS	How to get the latitude and longitude of a smart phone using LBS

Messaging Middleware

Name	Description
BIOMessageMgr	Shows BIO messaging and parsing the BIO message.
SendAs2Example	Shows how to use the SendAs v2 protocol for sending messages.

Messaging Applications

Name	Description
Imap4Pop3Example	Shows how to create SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) and POP (Post Office Protocol) accounts to send and receive emails. Shows how to create SMTP and IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) accounts to send and receive emails.

Name

Description

Imap4Pop3Example

Shows how to create SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) and POP (Post Office Protocol) accounts to send and receive emails.

Shows how to create SMTP and IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) accounts to send and receive emails.

Multimedia

Multimedia APIs and Frameworks

Name	Description
ICLCodec	Shows how to implement encoder and decoder plug-ins for the Image Converter Library.
ImageConverter	Shows how to convert between standard graphics formats to and from `CFbsBitmap` s, and how to rotate, flip, and zoom images.
CameraExample	Shows how to use the Camera API to capture and control images.
AudioPlaying Example	How to play, pause, rewind and fast forward a song
Midi Player	How to play and stop Midi player
Tone Player	How to play a tone and dual tone

Multimedia Middleware

Multimedia Middleware Frameworks

Name	Description
AudioClientEx	Shows how to use the Multimedia Framework's client audio interfaces to play and record audio.
MmfExCodec	Shows how to implement a codec plug-in for the Multimedia Framework to convert media data.
MmfRAWFormat	Shows how to implement format encoder and decoder plug-ins for the Multimedia Framework.
MmfExSinkSource	Shows how to implement sink and source plug-ins for the Multimedia Framework.

Multimedia Protocols

IMS and Streaming

Name	Description
RTPExample	Shows RTP packet streaming.

Networking Services

Network Protocols

Name	Description
EchoClientEngine	The engine for the TCP/IP echo client example.
EchoClientUI	The user interface for the TCP/IP echo client example.

Network Security

Name	Description
SecureSockets	Shows how to create and use a secure sockets (SSL/TLS) connection.

Persistent Data Services

Persistent Storage

Name	Description
Basics	Shows how to create and use a database using DBMS.
SqlExample	Shows how to use the SQL API to create and query an SQL database.
WikiPedia: Symbian SQL Database	How to search an article from the database
StoreDatabase Example	How to use DBMS in Symbian os
CentRepExample	Shows how to use the central repository to store settings and request notification of changes.
WriteDirectFS	Shows how to persist objects using a direct file store and a root stream.
WritePermFS1	Shows how to write a network of objects to a permanent file store then read them back in again.
WritePermFS2	Shows how to create and use a permanent file store.
FileStore Example	How to read and write an employee class from or to a file store
FileStream Example	How to internalize & externalize user defined data type using stream
StreamInStore	Shows how to externalize objects to a single stream in a non-persistent store.
WriteToMany	Shows how to write a network of objects to more than one stream in a direct file store, and to defer the loading of an object from the store into memory.
WriteToEmbedded	Shows how an object is externalized to a store embedded within a permanent file store.
StoreMap	Shows how to stream a compound object to multiple streams using a store map.
SimpleClass	Shows streaming a simple class to and from a single stream.
CompoundClass	Shows streaming a compound class to and from a single stream

PIM

PIM Application Services

Name	Description
CalExample	Shows how to create and use a calendar file.
ContactExample	Shows how to add new contact, find a contact, sort contact, move contact, and read contact field.

PIM Application Support

Name	Description
CalconExample	Shows how to convert between Gregorian and Chinese dates.
VersitExample	Shows how to import and export vCards.

System GUI Framework

Look-and-Feel Agnostic UI Foundation

Name	Description
ClockExample	Shows how to create and display digital and analogue clocks.