Comments on: Android versus Symbian OS

By: Zhubham

Zhubham — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:27:04 +0000

Hi,

I am looking forward to coming with some coding guidelines so that an android application can be ported on S60 with minimum modifications. Like excluding the UI (which definitely has to be rebuilt for S60), what should a developer keep in mind so that his/her code is platform (android/S60) independant.

Can you help me with this??

Thanks in advance.

Best Regards,
Zhubham

By: Adrian Taylor

Adrian Taylor — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:31:30 +0000

No, although both S60 and Android can run Java code, there are other major differences. The UI APIs are entirely different, for a start. You’d use J2ME APIs for S60 but Android APIs for Android. (And Android, in itself, can’t run standard JAR applications – the Java code needs to be run through a tool to convert it to .dex files before it will run on an Android device).

By: Zhubham

Zhubham — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:26:10 +0000

“All SYMBIAN based end devices accept Java language Applications”

(i) Does this mean that the applications made for Android would run in S60 , without any modifications??
(ii) If not then what exactly we mean when we say the above statement?? Is there any web link to which I can refer to??
(iii) What are the coding guidelines that we need to follow so that an Android application can be ported on S60 with minimum changes??

Thank you all in advance.

Best Regards,
Zhubham

By: Adrian Taylor

Adrian Taylor — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:24:03 +0000

Hi, I might do one day: I haven’t touched Android since the winter!

It will be interesting to compare them again once the code actually is released for each platform.

Ade

By: Lawand

Lawand — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:03:21 +0000

Hello, nice article! But, can you update it? Because major changes has happened since you first wrote it, such as the Symbian Foundation