NFC on Nokia & Symbian Introduction for Developers MIT 13th december 2010 Ganesh Sivaraman Senior Manager Forum Nokia December 13, 2010 v2.5.1 11/8/2010 © 2010 Nokia 2 Agenda • Nokia Developer offering • NFC Architecture in Symbian & API deep dive • Application development • Distribution Developer offering 11/8/2010 © 2010 Nokia 4 Platform Positioning 11/8/2010 © 2010 Nokia 5 NFC coming to Nokia Smartphones… Speculations are in and around: • Allaboutsymbian.com: “NFC in select Nokia smartphones next year” • NFC World: “All new Nokia smartphones to come with NFC from 2011” • NFC Times: “Nokia C7 is NFC enabled” Anssi Vanjoki, EVP Markets, Nokia 11/8/2010 © 2010 Nokia 6 Smartphone OS Shipments Q2 2010 Data: Canalys Source: http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/11899_Canalys_Q2_stats_show_Nokias_S.php 11/8/2010 © 2010 Nokia 7 Smartphone Market Share in 2014 Data: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, September 7, 2010 Source: http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS22486010 NFC on Symbian, API deep dive 11/8/2010 © 2010 Nokia 9 Nokia NFC Architecture Supported Operating Modes: NFC Applications • Reader/writer – Tag manipulation NFC Interfaces – SmartPosters – Type A/B reader mode Middleware – Mifare classic 1k/4k, Jewel read only, NFC & adaptation Forum type 1-4 • Peer-2-Peer Base Band – Can connect to another NFC Device – Bluetooth pairing – Data exchange NFC Controller NFC Antenna ISO14443 11/8/2010 © 2010 Nokia 10 NFC Interfaces • All interfaces offer same/similar level Native App Native App Java App of functionality & granularity • Technology choice depends on other criteria e.g.: – Developer Skillset C++ API Qt C++ API JSR-257 – Use case – Cross platform needs NFC Services (Middleware) – Platform integration Adaptation (HAL & Drivers) 11/8/2010 © 2010 Nokia 11 NFC Services APIs API Description NFC Discovery API Provides methods to subscribe and discover tags and NDEF messages. NFC Tag Extension API Provides implementation and access (read/write) methods for different types of NFC targets. NDEF API Provides methods for handling NDEF messages and accessing NDEF messages on tags. NFC Peer-to-Peer API Provides the LLCP API for peer-to-peer communications between NFC devices. NFC Content Handler API Provides the ECOM plug-in interface for subscribing and receiving NDEF messages. 11/8/2010 © 2010 Nokia 12 Symbian Native development • Symbian^3 SDK – Comes with Carbide.c++ IDE • NFC Plugin for S^3 SDK – Adds NFC services libraries – Adds NFC emulation support for device-less development & testing • Optional – Qt for Symbian 11/8/2010 © 2010 Nokia 13 Qt development • Nokia Qt SDK – Comes with QtCreator IDE and device simulator • Qt Mobility (NFC API) 1.x will add NFC API support 11/8/2010 © 2010 Nokia 14 J2me NFC API – JSR-257 • Complete implementation of the JSR-257 Contactless Communication API + Nokia extensions – com.innovision.rf (NFC Forum Type 1, Innovision Jewel, Innovision Topaz) – com.nokia.nfc.nxp.mfstd (MIFARE 1k, MIFARE 4k) – com.nokia.nfc.nxp.simpletag (NFC Forum Type 2 - MIFARE Ultralight) – com.sony.felica (NFC Forum Type 3 - Sony FeliCa) Application development 12/13/201011/8/2010 © 2010 Nokia 17 What is Qt? • Develop C++ code only once – Deploy for multiple platforms – … with native look & feel! • More than UI – 23 modules, around 800 classes, 9000 functions – Development tools: IDE, UI designer, help system, translation tool • Maximum performance – Native code on all platforms – Still possible to use platform specific APIs! 11/8/2010 © 2010 Nokia 18 Platforms Windows Mac OS Linux / X11 C++ Embedded Linux Windows CE Maemo / MeeGo Java Symbian Python Ada Pascal Maintained by the Perl Qt open source community. PHP Not officially supported by Nokia. 12/13/201011/8/2010 © 2010 Nokia 20 Longer history than you might think Focus on mobile platforms (Symbian, Maemo, MeeGo), dedicated mobility APIs Nokia purchases Trolltech Qt 4.0 – leads to new KDE 4 desktop Qtopia – platform for mobile phones & PDAs First public release through newsgroups (Qt 0.90) • Dual licensing: commercial & free for open source Decided to go into business • “Q” looked beautiful in Emacs font. “t” for toolkit • Company : Quasar Technologies (later: Trolltech) Development started • Cross platform GUI toolkit was needed Eirik Chambe- Haavard Eng Nord 11/8/2010 © 2010 Nokia 21 You’re using it already! … and many, many more! All trademarks and logos are property of their respective owners. 11/8/2010 © 2010 Nokia 23 Qt pre-installed on new Symbian platform phones Upgrade your phone with future user experience enhancements! 11/8/2010 © 2010 Nokia 24 Qt: used in all (future) platforms ... start developing now! (and switch to MeeGo when devices are available) 11/8/2010 © 2010 Nokia 25 Qt SDKs from qt.nokia.com Common Qt APIs Qt SDK for Nokia Qt Qt SDK for Qt SDK for Qt SDK for Qt SDK for Embedded SDK Windows Windows CE Mac OS Linux / X11 Linux Windows Other Symbian Simulator Mac OS X Linux (X11) CE / Mobile devices Maemo / Windows (MeeGo) XP / Vista / 7 You can of course install multiple SDKs at the same time 12/13/201011/8/2010 © 2010 Nokia 26 Nokia Qt SDK • One-Click installation: – Development tools – Build for and debug in real devices • Symbian • MeeGo / Maemo – Test on host PC • Simulator – Qt Mobility • No extra device SDKs required anymore Application Distribution 11/8/2010 © 2010 Nokia 39 The global mobile apps economy is set to be worth $17.5 billion by 2012.* The global mobile advertising market will be valued at over $16 billion by 2011.** *Chetan Sharma Consulting, March 2010 ** M:Metrics, August, 2010 11/8/2010 © 2010 Nokia 40 Nokia Ovi Store Opportunity Today you can distribute apps to approximately…. 175m 500m Nokia Symbian Devices Series 40 Devices 11/8/2010 © 2010 Nokia 41 Ovi Store Statistics Users in 190+ countries 2.7 million application downloads / day 135+ device models supported Storefront available in 30 languages Operator billing with 99 operators in 27 countries (growing) http://www.forum.nokia.com/Distribute/Ovi_Store_statistics.xhtml 11/8/2010 © 2010 Nokia 42 Ovi Store Access reports. You get 70%, Nokia 30%. (Operator billing: 60/40) Quality Assurance. Create content items. Add meta data. Register at publish.ovi.com (one-time fee of €1) Thank you! [email protected] For more information visit: http://forum.nokia.com December 13, 2010 11/8/2010 © 2010 Nokia 44 Can be installed to a Smart Installer Packaging device that has Qt already installed. Sign with free Ovi Store always requires Source code the Smart Installer. publishing certificate .cpp Sign with free .sis .sis publishing certificate App installation package Signed app SI SI package app app .sis .sis Meta-package Deliverable, signed (.sis) meta-package .sis Smart Installer package (in Nokia Qt SDK) 11/8/2010 © 2010 Nokia 45 Forum Nokia Library library.forum.nokia.com.