Radu Spineanu wrote on 28/06/2005 21:41: > Radu Spineanu wrote: >>In case anyone has some experience, is it hard to write such a symbian >>application ? > > > Being more specific, porting gpg to symbian. > I noticed an implementation of pgp: > http://my-symbian.com/9210/applications/applications.php?faq=5&fldAuto=336
Back when SymbianOS was still named EPOC, you had two options to program for it: OPL (a basic-like language) and C (or was it C++) with an API which allowed almost anything the device could handle (graphics, network, file operations, serial I/O), most of what I did was possible using the standard methods you would also use on Linux. I'm not 100% sure what prerequisites gpg needs, but I would say that porting should not be too difficult, at least for someone who is relatively used to programming for SymbianOS/EPOC. Anyway, for the kind of use you would like to put your smartphone to, you also need some interface for the host application to contact the smartphone by and to transmit the data in both directions, some UI on the smartphone to present the data to you (which would need to be smart enough to handle at least some of the more common data types) etc.... I would definately like to see such a thing happen, but it probably would take a skilled programmer several weeks to come up with a half-way usable prototype and probably several months to get close to a releasable state (given only one programmer working in his spare time that is). cu, sven
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