Tuesday March 24, 2009 3D Fast and Furious Java ME Game
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Here's a video of 3D The Fast and the Furious Java ME game on a Nokia cell phone. What? No choice to drive a mini-van in the game? Hmfph! That's no fun... See: No mini-van in 3D Fast and Furious The 3D games on Java ME cell phones are looking better and performing much faster nowadays. Soon, driving a souped-up mini-van against a 1972 Mustang GT muscle car won't be so unheard of...
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Monday March 23, 2009 What do you get when you combine...
Q: What do you get when you take IBM Lotus Sametime and combine it with Sun's Java ME technology? It sounds like the set up to a joke... See: Here's a quote: Combine IBM Lotus Sametime with Sun's Java, and the possibility of mobile phones becoming unified communications platforms for both businesses and consumers gets closer to reality.You get something at Sun we cannot comment on, since we don't respond to rumors. :-P But, if you were to unify a communication platform for both business and consumers, make sure it's with Java ME technology--otherwise, you'd get a strange hybrid that would be hard to tell if it's coming or going... |
Friday March 20, 2009 Xbox 360 like games coming to your Java ME cell phone
Cool. The new ARM chips coming this winter, Mali-200 and Mali-400, have OpenGL ES 2.0 GPUs--graphics chips powerful enough to give you Xbox 360 like games on your Java ME cell phones. Compare this against the piddly OpenGL ES 1.1 implementation on the iPhone. See: Here's a quote: This is where it'll get interesting: OpenGL ES 2.0 is completely shader-based, a subset desktop code. Difference is, it removes cluttered code but keeps vertex and pixel shaders. It'll run 16 million triangles/second, 275 million pixels/second. And, yep, it'll be able to run... Java games.Get ready for even more Java ME graphical-based games that will give you extra thrillz that killz... ;-) |
Thursday March 19, 2009 How to get 10 million downloads of your Mobile app
So, you've worked hard on a new Mobile application. The question is now, how do you get over 10 million downloads of your Mobile app (like what eBuddy was able to do)? You'd like to have that number (or greater) as a starting point, right? Well, the answer is not the Apple iPhone AppStore. Just say no to that. See: Here's a quote: With the entire tech word endlessly buzzing about the latest new smartphone, it's easy to forget that around 75% of handsets sold are basic feature phones - often lovingly referred to as "dumb phones". With these phones generally lacking an official "App Store" of their own, users turn to the web to find new applications.With the Java ME based eBuddy IM app pulling in 375,000 downloads each week, why bother with the hoops you have to jump through for Apple's AppStore? |
Wednesday March 18, 2009 Java ME tech: in the last sentence of IBM article
If you are reading an article about the rumored takeover of Sun by IBM, you'd like to think that the first thing mentioned would be that Java ME technology is awesome and is probably (OK, maybe not that probably) the big reason why IBM is offering to pay Sun $6.5 billion. See: IBM wants Java ME tech so much! Here's a quote (very last sentence in article): ...and its Java language is still a dominant presence in mobile and web development.OK, so Java ME is not in the first sentence of the article. It should be though. The stock would be up even more than it is now... :-) |
Tuesday March 17, 2009 Watchmen movie in Java ME game
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The good part of any blockbuster movie hit that comes out nowadays is that it also means a cool new Java ME game gets released with it. Here's the Java ME Mobile game for The Watchmen movie. There's action, adventure, and lots of mayhem as masked vigilantes take on the task of fighting crime. See: The Watchmen Movie: Java ME Game This will really perk up having to wait in line for things. |
Monday March 16, 2009 Here comes Peter Java ME Cottaintail
Just in time for spring: Here comes Peter Cottontail, Hopping' down the bunny trail, Hippity, hoppity, Java ME's on its way. Where else can you find a game with the objective being that the hero bunny has to plant as many flowers as possible? See: Here's a quote: After an hour with Bobby Carrot 4: Flower Power, you might be forgiven for thinking that the long- eared ones had finally found a way to strike back at humanity. It is easily one of the most frustrating games in the universe, and yet it's also a mostly enjoyable one.Having Bobby Carrot hop on that tractor sounds like fun--a little bizarre, but fun. |
Friday March 13, 2009 Unite or Die: Java ME technology
Here's a Register article about Eclipse Pulsar trying to rally mobile manufacturers and service providers around a single common tooling environment. See:
Uniting Against the Common Enemy Here's a quote: They've dropped their squabbling and territoriality in the face of two bigger threats to their developer market share, two companies notable for their absence from the list of Pulsar participants - Apple and Google.Hey, all they have to do now is to add JavaFX support and then we're talking. |
Thursday March 12, 2009 Yet another Java ME tech app store
Javaground (not ground java) has yet another app store for Java ME apps called Xpressed. Oh, how original: a play on words around the coffee metaphor. Haven't seen that before with a Java product, have we now? ;-) See:
Javaground Xpressed App Store
Here's a quote: The latest mobile application store to be announced doesn't come from a handset maker or network operator, but rather a provider of Java developer tools. Javaground announced a new site where users of Java-enabled mobile phones can find, trial, and download content. Can it compete with the big boys?The interesting part is they have a $10/month unlimited download plan. That's pretty attractive. Let's see how long before the iPhone AppStore steals that idea... |
Wednesday March 11, 2009 GetJar Webinar TODAY: Wed 11Mar, How to Get Mobile Users
There's a Webinar today presented by Chris Dury, VP Product at GetJar, "Get 10,000 active users for Mobile" You can choose from two sessions: Wednesday 11 March 2009, 06:00 PM - 06:30 PM (GMT) / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM (GMT-07:00) http://connectpro76854651.acrobat.com/get10000users-uk/event/registration.html
http://connectpro76854651.acrobat.com/get10000users-us/event/registration.html
See: Webinar on getting Mobile Users Here's a quote: --- Even with the rise of the app stores, it’s difficult for developers to reach millions of users without big marketing budgets. The leading apps on GetJar have millions of downloads and you can start small and efficiently. Join GetJar for a 20 to 30 minute presentation where they will show you how developers are doing this for Java mobile apps. |
Tuesday March 10, 2009 JavaFX Mobile, boldly go where no one has gone before
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Click on arrow to PLAY. Click on picture to PAUSE/RESUME. Note: If video
playback is blank or slow, reload the page and make sure QuickTime 7.6
is installed on your system.
The cool part of JavaFX is the simple way to add video to your app. And, because it's JavaFX, you program it the same way on your mobile device as you would for your desktop. Write once, and run wherever Captain Kirk says to run it. Try playing the video above and see what I mean... |
Code snippet:
var player = MediaPlayer {
autoPlay: false
media : Media {
source : "{__DIR__}star-trek.flv";
}
}
var view:MediaView = MediaView {
visible: true
mediaPlayer: bind player
}
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Monday March 09, 2009 No such thing as a 99 cent value meal at BlackBerry AppWorld
RIM will try to avoid the mistakes of Apple's iPhone AppStore by providing a minimum price ($2.99) that developers can charge for paid apps. They hope to discourage the 99 cent cheapo apps that have plagued the iPhone AppStore. See: Here's a quote: RIM will accept any applications that can be packaged as a cod file using the BlackBerry Java Development Environment, BlackBerry JDE Plug-in for Eclipse and BlackBerry JDE component pack--developers may also promote and distribute web- based content services provided they offer a web icon application to be distributed through the storeI kinda like 99 cent value pricing. There is a recession going on. Well at least they're not prohibiting free apps. Free apps are great. As they say, whatever you lose in profits with free apps, you can always make it up in volume. ;-) |
Thursday March 05, 2009 Don't be caught in the iPhone stampede
PocketGamer says don't forget about Java ME technology since you can sell more on the right side of the long tail with Java ME tech than iPhone. See: Here's a quote: ...the biggest danger is to mid-sized projects. ... The development costs entailed in creating the project are likely to be considerable, and yet the title could be launched and disappear off the front pages within a few days into obscurity, with minimal sales along the way. |
Tuesday March 03, 2009 Dr. Dobb's article on Redefining Mobile App Dev w/Nemo on Java ME tech
Here's an insightful article on using Nemo to redefine Mobile App Development using Java ME technology. Of course Nemo is that stone-faced captain of the Nautilus submarine in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Oh. And, is the scripting language written on top of Java ME. Yeah, that too. Kinda like JavaFX technology, which by the way, can be downloaded from http://javafx.com. See: Here's a tip: Wireless networks are not LANs. Mobile applications should be designed to be "intermittently connected." As a mobile developer, your application can go from no connectivity to 10KB/sec on a 2.5G network to megabits/sec on 3.5G network.What's a 3.5G network? Yeah, yeah, I know it's the network in between 3G and 4G. But, we don't have that in the U.S... I think. |
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