Symbian Capabilities

IMPORTANT: The content of this page is outdated. Reason: The Symbian platform is no longer supported. If you have checked or updated this page and found the content to be suitable, please remove this notice.

This article may require cleanup to meet the Qt Wiki's quality standards. Reason: Auto-imported from ExpressionEngine. Please improve this article if you can. Remove the {{cleanup}} tag and add this page to Updated pages list after it's clean.

English Български

Symbian Capabilities

Overview

The platform security model of Symbian requires applications (including Qt applications) to have certain "capabilities" before they are allowed to use sensitive functionality.

S60 Capabilities

Basic capabilities - approved by the end user

• LocalServices
• UserEnvironment
• NetworkServices
• ReadUserData
• WriteUserData
• Location (from S60 3rd FP2)*

Applications that require only basic capabilities can be distributed with a self-signed certificate.

Extended capabilities

Applications using these capabilities require approval by Symbian Signed.

Open signed online

• SwEvent
• SurroundingsDD
• ProtServ
• PowerMgmt
• ReadDeviceData
• WriteDeviceData
• TrustedUI
• Location (before S60 3rd FP2)*

Certified Signed

• NetworkControl
• MultimediaDD
• CommDD
• DiskAdmin

Manufacturer-approved capabilities

• AllFiles
• DRM
• TCB

Adding Capabilities to Project

To extend capabilities edit .pro file of the project and specify the capabilities at TARGET.CAPABILITY.

Example: Adding location capabilities to a Qt application for Symbian

symbian:TARGET.CAPABILITY += Location