Symbian Guide

The Symbian Guide describes the architecture and functionality of the platform, and provides guides on using its APIs.

• Essential Idioms
• Security
• Application Framework Guide
• Application Installation Guide
• Cellular Baseband Services Guide
  Cellular Baseband Services provide a common interface to telephony services for applications and higher level platform components. The framework is independent of the underlying network services.
• Classic UI Guide
• Common Email Guide
  The Common Email package provides a plug-in framework for email protocol implementations. It supports implementations for IMAP4, POP3 and SMTP protocols. This guide provides detailed information of the Common Email package.
• Communications Framework Guide
  The Communications Framework is the base for all communications, network and telephony services that Symbian platform provides. The Communications Framework manages the communications threads and the flow of information between those threads. The Framework also manages and stores the communications related settings.
• Device Services Guide
• Digital rights management
• Generic Application Support Guide
• Generic OS Services Guide
• Graphics Guide
• High Level Internet Protocols Guide
• IP Connection Management
  The IP Connection Management package provides services to accommodate automatic IP connection selection, application-assisted roaming logic, contention management for IP connections, IP connection monitoring and logging, settings management for IP connections, UI dialogs related to IP connections and managing PDP contexts.
• Kernel and Hardware Services Guide
  Kernel and Hardware Services performs the fundamental operating system tasks of managing access to device resources.
• Location Based Services (LBS) Guide
• Messaging Application Guide
• Messaging Middleware Guide
• Multimedia Guide
• Multimedia Protocols Guide
• Networking Services Guide
  Networking Services provides a standard framework for accessing network services and actual implementations of network protocols. The components of the Networking Services are closely related to the framework provided by the Communications Framework module.
• OS Security Guide
• Persistent Data Services Guide
  Provides services to enable and support persistence.
• PIM Application Engines and Services Guide
  These topics provide information about the Personal Information Management components. Functionality includes Calendar, Contacts and Time zone.
• Security Services Guide
• Short Link Services Guide
  The Short Link Services module enables licensees to implement Bluetooth, USB, Infrared and OBEX on Symbian platform devices.
• Text and Localization Guide
• XML Services Guide
• Web Guide