3 votes
This course takes you through every single step required to program your own J2ME game (that is, a game for mobile phones).
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4 votes
Mobile industry is transforming rapidly. Mobile operating systems and runtime stacks are at the center of this change. Mobile Linux, Android, and the lately announced Symbian Foundation, the trend is clear. The Mobile OSs are becoming license free and in most cases open source. ... Java, NOT free and NOT really open source for the manufacturers to ship.
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3 votes
The Eclipse MTJ 0.9 release is the result of collaboration between the Eclipse MTJ project and the EclipseME open source project. A significant portion of the MTJ code is based on the source code from the popular EclipseME project. EclipseME has been providing an Eclipse-based Java ME development environment since 2003 and has been downloaded over 600,000 times. Moving forward, the EclipseME user community is encouraged to migrate to Eclipse MTJ releases.
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3 votes
The Java ME SDK is now available as an Early Access version for Windows XP and Vista (Linux and Mac users ... don't fret - stay tuned). The Java ME SDK is a complete redesign with all the goodness that made WTK so popular but with a new architecture underneath and a host of new features.
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3 votes
Nokia has launched Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. It is the first S60 device with touch screen support. Today also the S60 platform release supporting touch UI called S60 5th Edition was announced.
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3 votes
A GSM mobile phone keeps track of four parameters that can be used to find the approximate location of the mobile they are MCC (Mobile Country Code), MNC (Mobile Network Code), LAC (Location Area Code) and CellID. Combining these four paramenter you can zero in on mobile phone's location with an accuracy of 1KM (Urban areas) to 3KM (Sub-urban and rural areas), which is quiet sufficient for some Loaction Based Services.
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3 votes
Increasingly, people are also going the route of using Java ME emulators written in Java SE to provide mobility functionality on platforms that otherwise lack WTK support, such as OS X and Solaris. Some examples are mpowerplayer and microemulator.
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3 votes
Eclipse Ganymede is the simultaneous release of 24 major Eclipse IDE projects. This three-part "Using Eclipse Ganymede to develop for the desktop, Web and mobile devices" tutorial series covers the following new Ganymede features: RCP, RAP, and eRCP, which allow you to develop software for the desktop, Web, and mobile platforms, respectively, with one common code base -- Subversion for version control; and p2 for update and installation.
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