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The platform +structure and APIs

The Symbian +Guide provides introductory documents to the platform +as a whole, and guides that describe the major areas of the platform in depth.

The +Symbian platform is a large system, and contains hundreds of C++ classes and +thousands of member functions. Like most complex systems, it is easiest to +divide it into large areas, and gradually to narrow your focus down to the +areas that are most important to your tasks.

The Symbian System Model organises the components of the +Symbian platform into a layered software architecture. The guides in this +library are also structured around this architecture. The guides describe +the key technology and architectural concepts of the area, and show the key +ways to use its classes.

Note: Before the System Model was introduced, +the Symbian platform used another architectural view based on large divisions +called subsystems. Some documentation has not yet been changed to use the +System Model rather than subsystems.

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Newcomers to +the Symbian platform

For those developing on the Symbian platform +for the first time, the Essential +Idioms section describes the distinctive programming idioms and conventions +of the Symbian platform.

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Examples

The Examples section gives +instructions for building and using the large set of C++ example projects +that accompany the library. Projects include examples that demonstrate the +use of fundamental Symbian platform classes, and many examples showing how +to use particular Symbian platform C++ APIs.

Example code is provided +for illustrative and demonstration purposes, and should not be assumed to +be useable as product code.

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Tools

The +library does not include documentation for most tools, which are usually delivered +separately from the Symbian platform code. See the Tools section of the Symbian Developer Community website.

The Tools And Utilities section +documents the tools that are delivered with the platform. In particular, the Build Tools Guide and +the Build Tools Reference document +the abld/bldmake (SBSv1) command line +build tools, and explain the project file formats.

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