Samsung Mobile Innovator - Yet another Symbian developer site

tote_b5 | 08 September, 2008 17:06

You might have heard of that Samsung has just kicked-off their new portal for mobile application developers. It's advertised as a great entry point for Symbian developers wishing to develop for Samsung devices based on this operating system. I'm not sure if other platforms will be covered by this site, too.


What I'm asking now, however, is if it's really worth increasing the fragmentation of Symbian development portals that are already present today. You know, I recall when I was involved in a cross-platform mobile development project and it really frustrated me that I had to check Forum Nokia, Sony Ericsson Developer World, uiq.com and Symbian DevNet to see what people said about nasty problems, their solutions and be sure that nothing has escaped my attention (well, I could never be sure about that).

I can see that Samsung might come out with such great features and services that will be very useful to the developer community in general. What I don't understand, though, is with Symbian Foundation (SF) starting early next year why doesn't SF kicks-off their own developer portal into which Samsung could integrate its own services. In an ideal world Symbian developers would just remember a single URL where they could find answers for all their questions. A powerful search engine could do magic, you know. Symbian Foundation gives a good opportunity to unify existing resources into one and I can't see why Samsung didn't realize this.

 

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Re: Samsung Mobile Innovator - Yet another Symbian developer site

chall3ng3r | 08/09/2008, 21:07

chall3ng3r

I agree with you.

It'd be really a cool to gather all the scatered resources to SF platform.

// chall3ng3r //

Re: Samsung Mobile Innovator - Yet another Symbian developer site

harri_salminen | 08/09/2008, 21:36

Hi,

I once gathered some of the basic Symbian-related sites behind a single search engine, take a look at http://www.mobilitics.net/search

//Harri

Agree 100%

Sorcery-ltd | 09/09/2008, 10:07

Hi,

Yes, I said much the same thing in response to some market research about this.

Using a search engine tends to find resources at all the developer sites but if you are a contributor to discussion boards then there are simply too many to follow. As a result I currently only post at Forum Nokia because that's the largest community. Possibly in the future that will be the Symbian Foundation.

The plan (as I've heard) is for the Symbian Foundation to be the central place for Symbian related tech support but the various manufacturers will still have their own portals for manufacturer and device specific stuff. Personally I'd prefer it if the SF members could just have their own area to post resources on the SF developer site and we could keep everything in one place.

Mark

SF should be THE central place

tote_b5 | 09/09/2008, 10:29

tote_b5

@Mark: Yes, I agree with SF being the central place for developers. It would be a huge task, though, to merge existing forums into one - if that's an option at all. Perhaps a sophisticated search tool could find anything in existing discussion boards + in the new one maintained by SF. In addition, I also prefer that option that manufacturers would have their own area (rather than portals) under SF's.

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