1.7. Structure of this Book
The patterns in this book cover the following topics:
Error-handling strategies: How to handle errors effectively so that their impact on the end user is minimized
Resource lifetimes: How to work effectively with the constrained resources available to a Symbian OS smartphone
Event-driven programming: How to conserve power whilst reducing the coupling between your components
Cooperative multitasking: How to take advantage of Symbian's cooperative multitasking framework and get the appearance of multithreading without the associated costs
Providing services: How to make your functionality available to multiple clients either individually or concurrently
Security: How to use the platform security architecture to secure your own application and services
Optimizing execution time: How to increase the speed with which your software executes and reduce the time it takes to start up
Mapping well-known patterns onto Symbian OS: How to apply well-known design patterns, such as Adapter, Singleton and Model–View–Controller, on Symbian OS
In each case, whether you're a device creator or an application developer, you'll find all of these patterns help you to write software that better harnesses the unique characteristics of mobile devices.
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