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As I previously promised, here's an outline of a mockup for managing certificates while developing Symbian OS apps. The mockup will be most interesting to those who've already worked with Developer Certificates and have experienced first-hand the current process.
Background: PlatSec is a nice platform feature, but a pain for developers (Related discussion by Antony Pranata and Tommi's Apps Blog; The S60 Multimedia blog has a good overview of the signing process). Although we can't make the pain go away, we set out to draft a plan for how we could ease the pain at least a little bit. We took 2 days in July to analyze the problem -- and since we wanted a concrete proposal rather than yet another strategy slide, we decided to propose in the form of a UI prototype. Two prototypes were created: Certificate Manager and Capability Scanner.
On to the prototype...
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Antony Pranata raises a good point about the requirement to re-certify an app via Symbian Signed if a bug fix is applied. Apparently, the Freeware process takes quite a while (although paying for an update speeds it up considerably, from 3 weeks to 24h).
The discussion continues on Tommi's application blog.
In a previous entry, I mentioned that we were looking into how we could ease the pain of working with platform security. We reviewed the process and the many steps it takes to get a Developer Certificate, as well as how we could help in figuring out what capabilities your app is using. We then developed UI mockups for the proposed solutions. The mockups are:
1) PlatSec Capability Scanner -- for displaying what capabilities are used in the current project
2) Certificate Manager -- to manage developer certificates, including requesting new ones and sharing existing ones
The PlatSec Capability Scanner is simple in UI, but requires quite a bit of underlying work, so the UI proto is really simple. I'm still working on the Certificate Manager presentation, since it's simple to do but has quite a bit of UI elements -- I'll post it later.
Disclaimer + warning + request: These might never appear in Carbide.c++, and the UI protos may look ugly, because they're protos. Nevertheless, please comment; your comments will impact the final design.
