Essential idioms

This section describes some of the distinctive programming idioms and conventions for Symbian OS. Additional useful information, in particular Symbian's own internal coding standards, can be found on the Symbian Developer Network's Getting Started page.

Naming conventions

Layout conventions

Class types

C++ and machine architecture

Object orientation basics

Object lifetimes and cleanup

Multiple inheritance and interfaces

Descriptors

Thin templates

Code efficiency

Defensive programming

Static data

Frameworks, libraries and DLLs

UIDs

Ordinal growth and the extension DLL pattern

How to optimise application start-up time

Exporting and Importing Classes in Symbian OS