Developers guidelines
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Signing applications
25
October 2006
4. Upload the .csr file. When uploaded, the request is forwarded to Sony Ericsson, where a steering
group reviews the request. Their decision is communicated to the developer via Symbian Signed.
5. When approved, the developer certificate can be viewed and checked and that its capabilities and
IMEIs are the requested via login to the Symbian Signed account.
6. Download the certificate. Together with the private key that the DevCertRequest tool generated, it can
be used to sign .SIS files for installation and test on phones with the specified IMEIs.
Note
: Applications requiring capabilities from the phone manufacturer approved set, also have to go
through a special process, involving Sony Ericsson approval, to be Symbiand Signed. This process is
called
channel certification
and is described below, see “Submitting an application to Symbian Signed” on
page 25
For more information on the Sony Ericsson criteria for approving developer certificates and other
Sony Ericsson specific information on developer certificates, please refer to the FAQ found on
http://
developer.sonyericsson.com/site/global/gotomarket/certification/symbiancer/dev_certs_faq/
p_devcerts_faq.jsp
.
Testing procedures and tools
When testing an application to be Symbian Signed, a number of tests similar to the ones that Symbian
Signed test houses do, are recommended to make the final testing and signing as smooth as possible. For
that purpose a set of test tools are available from Symbian. Information about testing criteria and available
test tools can be found on
https://www.symbiansigned.com/app/page/requirements
.
Submitting an application to Symbian Signed
Before sending an application to Symbian Signed to be tested and signed, there are several actions that
should be handled with care to avoid the costly and time consuming event that the application is not
approved and has to be changed in some way before it can be resubmitted.
To do before submitting the application
The Symbian Signed specification contains a list of tests that will be applied to an application to make
sure the application is of a high quality. The Symbian Signed Test Criteria document can be found on
https://www.symbiansigned.com/app/page/requirements
.
The following things should also be checked, to make testing/signing procedures run smoothly.
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UID Information
Make sure that the application UID (and VID if present) is owned by the submitter and from the correct
dedicated range: UID = 0x20000000 - 0x2FFFFFFF, VID = 0x70000000 - 0x7FFFFFFF or VID = 0.
Note
: The owner of each UID, SID, or VID must match the ACS Publisher ID Distinguished Name (DN
field) otherwise the application will fail the Symbian Signed process.
