Essential idioms

This section describes some of the distinctive programming idioms and conventions for Symbian OS. Additional useful information, in particular Symbian's own internal coding standards, can be found on the Symbian Developer Network's Getting Started page.

• Naming conventions
• Layout conventions
• Class types
• C++ and machine architecture
• Object orientation basics
• Object lifetimes and cleanup
• Multiple inheritance and interfaces
• Descriptors
• Thin templates
• Code efficiency
• Defensive programming
• Static data
• Frameworks, libraries and DLLs
• Ordinal growth and the extension DLL pattern
• How to optimise application start-up time