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 [...]
Read More J2ME, LWUIT, MobileErik 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, SpotifyFor 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
Read More J2ME, MobileAfter attending FOM 2008 and seeing Tom Humes presentation on the strengths weaknesss and trade offs of mobile platforms, The slides of which can be found here http://www.slideshare.net/twh/strengths-weakness-and-tradeoffs-of-mobile-platforms-presentation/ The mantra of fewer builds rather than customising for each individual handset where ever possible is something I have long believed in and practiced I have always [...]
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