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Usability and the overall user experience gives you a competitive edge. The Forum Nokia User Experience Programme offers expert guidance, self-help material, and a user-experience evaluation service to help you optimise your application’s user experience.

The Complete Guide To Symbian Signed on the Symbian Signed website tells all about the Symbian Signed process.

For more details about manufacturer capabilities, please see Forum Nokia’s presentation on Symbian Signed: Accessing Manufacturer Capabilities.

Nokia offers two services for remote device access. These services enable you to access Nokia devices over the Internet. Read more about the services »

If you want to test Java™ ME applications in commercial testing and signing programmes, learn about the Java Verified™ Program. If you’re looking for criteria to use on your own, the Java Verified criteria document offers good starting points for application testing. Forum Nokia’s Testing Documents section contains a number of test cases that also can be helpful.

For native Symbian applications, explore Symbian Signed. If you’re looking for criteria to use on your own, the Symbian Signed criteria document offers good starting points for application testing. Forum Nokia’s Testing Documents section contains a Nokia Criteria for the Symbian C++ applications which contains a number of essential test cases for applications targeted to Nokia devices. For native Symbian application development, it’s possible to use unit tests.

If you have a Java ME application, you’ll use the Java Verified™ Program. If your application is delivered in a SIS file, then Symbian Signed is the programme for you. If you want to sign a SIS file on your own, check out Forum Nokia’s Testing and Signing Developer’s Library.

To learn how Symbian’s Symbian Signed programme works, check out The Complete Guide to Symbian Signed, published by Symbian.

The Java Verified™ Program is Sun’s application testing and signing programme for Java™ ME applications. To learn how it works, check out the Java Verified website.

Two tools, available in the free-of-charge Carbide.c++ Express v1.3, can help. The Capability Scanner goes through the project code and determines which capabilities the code needs. The Epocwind.out Scanner enables you to view the capability-requirement messages when the application has been run in the SDK emulator. For more information, please refer to Carbide.c++ help.

Forum Nokia offers several resources to help you get up to speed. The Symbian OS Platform Security section provides a detailed explanation, and the Wiki and the Testing and Signing Developer’s Library give even more information.

See Forum Nokia’s presentation on Symbian Signed: Accessing Manufacturer Capabilities to learn how to obtain AllFiles, DRM, or TCB for your application.

Technical problems? Forum Nokia Technical Support is here to help with your mobile development projects. The Forum Nokia Technical Support organisation provides support to the Forum Nokia community, Forum Nokia PRO member companies, and third-party developers. Here’s what we provide:

• Timely online technical support on a per-case basis.
• Solutions to specific problems and answers to technical questions.
• Support for Java™, S60 on Symbian OS, Qt for Symbian, Maemo, Widget development on S60 Web Runtime and Series 40 development.
• API partnering.

If your company is a PRO member, you’ll also benefit from special pricing and expedited support. Learn more about how Forum Nokia Technical Support can help your development team »

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