Romain Nurik posted an excellent article today on why you need to hand edit layouts for Android rather than using a WYSIWIG tool First off, there will be some obvious bias in this post. I have been very fortunate in my working career to work with some truly great product managers, designers and artists on [...]
Read MoreOne of the parts of JavaME development that always pains me is that for such a resource limited device, in particular when accessing radio networks, is the fact that the zip api is not exposed as standard (despite the fact that the files contained in the JAR itself are zipped) Andrew Girow has kindly made [...]
Read MoreOne of the great aspects of frameworks such as LWUIT and freely available information with regards to device groupings, is the promise of finally achieving the nirvana of “write one run anywhere” or the new idiom which seems to be “write once deploy anywhere” Thankfully we do seem to be leaving the dark days of [...]
Read More J2ME, LWUIT, MobileGreat event at over the air For those of your that want Simonmaddoxs 0870 application for your Blackberry, Samsung, Nokia or LG Java enabled phone using LWUIT, this was put together during the night, so might be a little rough round the edges, so would welcome feedback via comments please You can download it here [...]
Read MoreCongratulations to Spotify on the launch of their mobile client for iPhone and Android, Videos of which can be seen below iPhone Video Android Video One thing that strikes me as a little odd though is the amount of coverage this application is getting, if I want a DRM music solution for a mobile phone [...]
Read MoreErik Starck posted over on his blog at Sony Ericsson about the fact that Spotify will not be releasing a J2ME client until the user experience is good enough, These thoughts are from an ex Sony handset user, my last four handsets have been as follows W800 -> K800 -> iPhone 2G -> iPhone 3G [...]
Read More J2ME, Sony, SpotifyWell another handset manufacturer opens up their application store which will launch in 20 countries information is here and Samsungs developer portal for Java is here For those of us that are experienced at dealing with the Samsungs this is great news. However if Samsung are hoping to stimulate applications on their platform, specific information [...]
Read More App Store, Java, SamsungFor anyone else scratching their head as to what Strings are currently set as defaults, in the LWUIT framework, here is the complete list of things that need replacing if you do not use the inbuilt language tool select menu cancel ok Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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