List of Example Code Use Cases

Symbian Platform Fundamentals

• Basic helloworld application

• How to create a C class

• How to do single phase construction

• How to do two-phase construction

• How to use an R class

• How to use a T class

• How to use a mixin class

• How to create a static DLL

• How to use a static DLL

Application Framework

• How to implement a simple GUI application with a single view

• How to create an animation using the Bitmap Animation framework

• How to view an animation inside a window

Bluetooth

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

Classic UI

Communication Framework

Data Server

• How to do connection monitoring and management using the RConnection API

Socket Server

• How to connect to a site and get weather information

• How to created an IPC channel to the socket server and gets the information for the protocol

Device Services

Resource management

• How to specify settings and start vibration

NFC

• How to share a vCard between two devices

• How to share a vCal between two devices

• How to discover a NFC tags

• How to perform read write operations with NFC tags

Generic Application Support

• How to add a floating alarm to the alarm server

• How to add a fixed alarm to the alarm server

• How to get notification from the alarm server

Generic OS Services

• How to compress data using the EZLIB API

• How to decompress data using the EZLIB API

• How to create a secure directory using PIPS

• How to read data from a file using PIPS

• How to write data to a file using PIPS

• How to remove the secure directory using PIPS

• How to use the P.I.P.S. standard C maths library, libm.dll

• How to compress/ decompress a file using Open C library.

• How to compress/ decompress a string using Open C library.

• How to do filtered data compression and Huffman compression using Open C library.

• How to send/receive messages using open C message queue library

• Shows string utility using open C libraries

• How to write solution for Producer/ Consumer Problem using Open C

• how to redirect stdio to a file using libc library

• How to handle global variables within the library code

• How to solve WSD (Writable Static Data) problem

• How to develop hybrid application which uses both pure C and native Symbian C++ APIs

• How to create a named pipe

• How a parent process communicates with its child process using named pipes (FIFO)

• How a parent process communicates with its child process using a single pipe (popen())

• How to create multiple threads in PIPS using libpthread

• How to synchronize among multi threads in PIPS

• How to handle a signal using the default handler

• How to handle a signal using a customized signal handler

• How to ignore an incoming signal

• How to block and release a signal

• How to wait for a signal

• How to handle a SIGPIPE signal

• How to gracefully terminate a process

• How to handle an asynchronous event using signals

• How to create a data recognizer

• How to get the MIME type(s) that a data recognizer is capable of recognizing

• How to do data recognition

• How to run tasks using the task scheduler

• How to read data from a resource file into an array

• How to use a resource reader to read data from a resource file into the data members of a class

• How to read a resource from a resource file

• How to read a string resource and print it

• How the signature of a resource file is checked before it is used

• How to read a text string from a resource file

• How to check the identity of a resource file

• How to read multiple resource files

• How to use multiple resource files with cross-referenced resources

• How to do string handling with EUserHl

• How to do resource management using EUserHl

• How to get the memory overhead of using EUserHl

Graphics

• How to draw, load or rotate a bitmap and construct a control

Kernel and Hardware Services

• How to insert elements into a dynamic array

• How to append elements to a dynamic array

• How to access elements of a dynamic array

• How to remove elements from a dynamic array

• How to search a dynamic array

• How to sort a dynamic array

• How to destroy a dynamic array

• How to check the range for fixed arrays

• How to create a circular buffer

• How to add elements to a circular buffer

• How to remove elements from a circular buffer

• How to insert elements into a dynamic buffer

• How to read the elements of a dynamic buffer

• How to overwrite a dynamic buffer

• How to expand a dynamic buffer

• How to delete elements from a dynamic buffer

• How to compress a dynamic buffer

• How to display the contents of a buffer

• How to do lexical analysis

• How to create a resizable buffer

• How to swap two resizable buffers

• How to assign data to a resizable buffer

• How to reallocate a resizable buffer

• How to replace and modify the data in a resizable buffer

• How to do date and time handling

• How to write and read from a file

• How to get a filename

• How to open a file

• How to read from a text file

• How to share a file to a new process by storing the RFs handle into environment slot

• How to use the Publish and Subscribe mechanism

• How to do security checking on a client by a server

• How to get locale-specific currency values and symbols

• How to synchronise threads

• How to use thread local storage

• How to implement an asynchronous timer

• How to implement a periodic timer

• How to implement a heartbeat timer

• How to create a global message queue

• How to send a message to another process

• How to receive a message from another process

• How to load and unload a driver

• How to create multiple connections to a server

• How to use active objects and an active scheduler

• How a wait loop can be used to identify request completion

• How to accept and print keyboard inputs to a console

• How to create multiple subsessions within a session

• How to start a server

• How to create a single session with a server

• How to create and use Transient Server

• How to load and read from the locale DLL

• How to construct an object and leave on failure

• How to construct an object and return an error code on failure

• How to cleanup compound classes

• How to implement the NewL() static function

• How to implement the NewLC() static function

• How to use the cleanup stack

• How to use the TRAPD macro

• How to use CleanupDeletePushL()

• How to use CleanupClosePushL()

• How to use CleanupReleasePushL()

• How to use CleanupArrayDeletePushL()

• How to use a doubly linked list

• How to use a singly linked list

• How to use a delta queue

• How to generate timer events

• How to use a logical device driver (LDD) and a physical device driver (PDD)

• How to use a global condition variable

• How to implement a write operation on a shared memory block

• How to use a local condition variable

• How to create a queue of integer tokens

• How to load and unload an ldd and pdd

• How to cancel an asynchronous request

• How multiple clients in different processes connect to a server

• How to handle binary data using 8 bit descriptors

• How to use basic buffer descriptors

• How to create and use a heap buffer descriptor

• How to use descriptors as function arguments

• How to use modifiable descriptors

• How to use non-modifiable descriptors

• How to use pointer descriptors

• How to use semaphore in a multithreaded application

• How to use a named database using RdbNamedDatabase

Location

• How to get the latitude and longitude of a smart phone using LBS

Messaging

• How to create a client registry, IMAP, SMTP, POP3 account, create and send an SMTP message, connect to the IMAP server and download mail using SMTP and update registry information when MTM groups are installed or uninstalled

• How to display account names and the connected session's available message types and create a SendAs message

• How to create a session with the message server, create/send a BIO message,create a BIO message parser, read a message and parse a message

Multimedia

• How to play an audio tone

• How to play audio from a file

• How to convert an audio file to another format

• How to record an audio file

• How to stream data

• How to set the volume of an audio file

• How to capture a still image

• How to capture video

• How to transfer viewfinder data

• How to perform image processing

• How to implement sink and source plug-ins for the Multimedia Framework

• How to convert images from one format to another

• How to manipulate images, for instance rotate, flip and zoom

• How to implement a codec plug-in for the Multimedia Framework

• How to convert media data from one encoding into another

• How to convert PCM8 into PCM16 encoded audio data

• How to implement a format encoder plug-in to the Multimedia Framework

• How to implement a format decoder plug-in to the Multimedia Framework

• How to play, pause, rewind and fast forward a song

• How to play a tone and dual tone

• How to play and stop Midi player

Networking Services

• How to send an http page request to the server

• How to get and read the server response

• How to connect to a socket using an IP address/host name, read/write data to/from a stream/datagram socket

Persistent Data Services

PIM

• How to create and use a calendar file

• How to create and open a calendar file

• How to create a view of the entries in a calendar file

• How to add properties to a calendar file

• How to create a vCard parser

• How to export a vCard to a file

• How to import a vCard from a file

System GUI Framework

• How to create and display a digital clock

• How to create and display an analog clock