LWUIT blog highlights pain with deviation from stds

Posted by Kieran on November 5, 2009 under J2ME, LWUIT, Mobile, Uncategorized | Be the First to Comment

One 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 fragmentation in the Java mobile world behind us, it is fairly easy to get lulled into a false sense of security.

Shai’s closing comment on the article highlights the sort of “discovery” that device specific information, when not in the public domain, may cause many developers to burn time.

To quote Shai:

Applications are expected to explicitly declare their support for touch to utilize the full screen of the device. This is done using the following Jad flags:

Navi-Key-Hidden: true
Nokia-MIDlet-On-Screen-Keypad: no
MIDlet-Touch-Support: true

Notice that the last entry (MIDlet-Touch-Support) is required by current/older Samsung/LG devices but is illegal by the MIDP specification hence fails on Nokia etc. so for support on these devices you would need a copy of your JAD (only the jad) with this attribute added.

Read Shai’s full article, which includes some good tips on using LWUIT on touch devices http://lwuit.blogspot.com/2009/11/optimized-for-touch.html#ixzz0VvlYKZXm

Anagrams of Orange and T Mobile

Posted by Kieran on September 8, 2009 under Uncategorized | Read the First Comment

Following the announcement today of Orange and T Mobiles joint venture

Here are some anagrams of the two, that made me laugh this morning , please feel free to add!

@dan_mcneil Terminable Goo

lame rebooting

to range mobile

I belong to met

And one that dont quite use all the letters, but the brand in 2 years?

Tango mobile


Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics

Posted by Kieran on July 21, 2009 under Uncategorized | Be the First to Comment

Yahoo release their earnings report for the quarter and it shows how wildly different the same set of numbers can be interpreted, depending on your prespective

The New York times leads with Yahoo’s profit rose nearly 8% whilst TechCrunch leads with Yahoo’s revenues Drop 13%

Google enables paid apps in the Android Market

Posted by Kieran on February 14, 2009 under Uncategorized | Be the First to Comment

Android market place announcement

Great news,now all that needs to happen is for some “sexy” phones to be announced in Barcelona next week that are utilising the Android platform

There is a $25 sign up fee that is paid via Google checkout, far easier and simpler process than signing up for Apples app store

Will take an application through the process as soon as possible

Google Objective C primer for Java programmer

Posted by Kieran on January 26, 2009 under Uncategorized | Be the First to Comment

Whilst I love Cocoa Touch and the iPhone app store, the one thing thats a stumbling block for many people is the language that is Objective C

Here is Googles primer for Java programmers coming to Objective C and cross compiling from Java

Google Objective C primer