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+<title>AIF File in Concepts</title>
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+ <h2>AIF File</h2>
+
+ <p>
+ The AIF, or application information file, is a Symbian OS-specific file
+ format. An AIF file contains information about captions, icons, capabilities
+ and MIME priority support used by the application. The MMP editor provides support for the AIF editor in the Sources > Resources group.</p>
+ <p class="note">
+ <b>NOTE</b> AIF files are used only for Symbian OS versions before 9.1.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The kind of information an AIF file can contain are:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <b>Icons</b>: Icons are used to represent applications and
+ their associated document files in the system shell or application launcher. If
+ the phone's UI supports embedding, icons may also be used to represent embedded
+ documents.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The source files for icons are .bmp bitmaps. These source files are
+ built into a single .mbm file (Symbian OS multiple bitmap file) which is
+ incorporated into the aif file as part of the build process.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <b>Captions</b>: A caption is the text displayed beside its
+ icon. Typically it is the application's name.</p>
+ <p>
+ Captions for multiple languages can be defined in a single aif, and
+ the one corresponding to the current system language will be used. In some UIs,
+ captions may be defined in a caption file, separate from the aif file.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <b>MIME Support</b>: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions,
+ MIMEs, define a file format for transferring non-ASCII data, such as graphics,
+ audio and fax, over the Internet. The AIF file lists the MIME types that the
+ application supports, and the priority of support that each type is given. When
+ a file is opened, Symbian OS launches the application which has the highest
+ priority of support for the type of data in the file.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Given two applications with the same MIME type priority, Symbian OS
+ arbitrarily launches one of them.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ <h5>Related tasks</h5>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="../tasks/AppInfoFile.html">Creating an AIF File</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ <h5>Related references</h5>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="../reference/AIFEditor.html">AIF Editor</a></li>
+ <li><a href="../reference/MMP_Editor.html">MMP Editor</a></li>
+ </ul>
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