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+<!-- Copyright (c) 2007-2010 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies) All rights reserved. -->
+<!-- This component and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the License 
+"Eclipse Public License v1.0" which accompanies this distribution, 
+and is available at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html". -->
+<!-- Initial Contributors:
+    Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
+Contributors: 
+-->
+<!DOCTYPE concept
+  PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Concept//EN" "concept.dtd">
+<concept id="GUID-5F749184-C804-41FC-BA81-038783BDC967" xml:lang="en"><title>Resources</title><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>
+<p>In Symbian mobile application development, resource files are used for
+defining user interface components and visible text. The advantage of using
+resource files include:</p>
+<ul>
+<li><p>making source code shorter and simpler</p></li>
+<li><p>saving memory, because text is loaded only when needed</p>
+</li>
+<li><p>making it easier to implement localization to different language
+groups</p></li>
+</ul>
+<p>A key example of the use of resource files is found in the implementation
+of <xref href="GUID-F3262DF6-39CA-4E96-AD0E-C1FFDE9B0A61.dita">AVKON components</xref>.
+AVKON UI components consist of data structures that are defined in the <xref href="GUID-D76B1001-BAF5-4557-A07E-61065523ECBE.dita">resource files</xref>, and
+then are called from the classes controlling the UI implementation. When UI
+component implementation is split into these two approaches, it means that
+resources can be recompiled, for example for new languages, without having
+to recompile the application code.</p>
+<p>For more information on managing resource files, see:</p>
+<ul>
+<li><p><xref href="GUID-0FB60233-993A-4BF2-9E8C-E03AD092359B.dita">Managing
+resource files</xref></p>
+</li>
+<li><p><xref href="GUID-E111C4E8-1342-4E87-ACB4-5B630AF1501C.dita">Internationalization
+and localization</xref></p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</conbody></concept>
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