Workshop: Mopoid - your own Symbian OS game

The Mopoid tutorial comes with 76 pages and 175 slides full of free Symbian OS information.

• Preparation: Setup of the tools and SDK
• Creating a new project
• Testing the project
• Defining the menu
• Displaying the about box
• Getting the application to the mobile phone!
• Adding the game engine to your project
• Loading images (.svg vector graphics)
• Scaling and displaying the graphics
• Handling keys
• Displaying text
• Reading and writing files
• Setting the application icon
• Handling being in the background
• Periodic events
• Exercises

You will see the results of your actions right away. Whenever a speciality of Symbian OS comes into sight (like memory handling), a short explanation will give you a brief overview of why it is this way and how to work with it.

Of course, during this tutorial, we will only scratch the surface of all those topics, as each of them would easily fill an own tutorial of this size. But this tutorial will give you a basic understanding of how development for mobile phones using C++ works, and is a good starting point for your own projects.

The original version of this tutorial has been released in December 2004 and was based on S60 1.x. In January 2009, the updated version for Symbian OS 9 / S60 3.x+ was released. The tutorial has been rewritten, the slides created from scratch, the game updated and greatly extended. Choose the version that fits to your target platform - most likely, this is going to be the new version. It's recommended to use both the tutorial document and the slides when working through the tutorial on your own.

Quick Facts

Develop a full-blown Arkanoid-like game - and play it!

Released, Compatibility

• New version: April 2009 (Symbian OS 9, S60 3rd Edition +)
• Original release: December 2004 (Symbian OS 6, S60 1.x - 2.x)

Published

• Symbian Developer Network
• Software Developer's Magazine (formerly called Software 2.0)

Download

• New version (2.4.1, Symbian OS 9, S60 3rd Edition +)
• Mopoid Tutorial 2.4.1 (English, 76 pages, 4.0 MB)
• Mopoid Slides 2.4.1 (English, 175 slides, 11.4 MB)
• Mopoid Source Code 2.4.1 (0.4 MB)
• Old version (Symbian OS 6, S60 1.x - 2.x)
• Mopoid Tutorial (English, 48 pages, 1.0 MB)
• Mopoid Slides (German, 1.2 MB)
• Source code (1 MB)

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