Best practices for application development
This section provides instructions and best practices for developing MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan applications. The following table presents the content in this section.
| Topic | Description |
|---|---|
| Optimising power consumption | Describes the most common causes for excessive power consumption of an application and gives practical instructions for developing applications for Harmattan devices. |
| Performance management | Describes how you can ensure and enhance the performance of your mobile application. |
| Inter-process communication guidelines | Describes guidelines for inter-process communications (IPC) from performance characteristics point of view. |
| QML performance tips and tricks | Provides best practices for QML development. |
| Using Shaders | Describes how to use QML shader elements and OpenGL for advanced graphics processing. |
| Using GStreamer | Describes how to use the GStreamer multimedia framework, an alternative to Qt Mobility -based multimedia functions. |
| Storing and managing application settings | Describes how to create an applet for the user-editable settings of your application and make the page visible in the Control Panel. |
| Imagination Technologies graphics tools and samples | Describes the tools and samples provided by Imagination Technologies for graphics development on the Harmattan platform. |
| Integrating account management to applications | Describes the accounts framework in Harmattan and shows how to use it in your applications |
| Font sizes in different Harmattan releases | Illustrates the differences in font size behaviour between different Harmattan releases, and demonstrates a few tips on how to avoid potential issues. |
| Optimising application startup | Explains how you can make your application start up faster with dedicated boosters, add a splash screen to your application, and ensure that only one instance of your application process is started on the Harmattan device. |
Where to go next?
When you are familiar with the contents in this section, read the following: