http://mobile.web2announcer.com/ Web 2.0 announcer top stories for mobile en Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:29:18 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2709604 unknown@DZone.com Android started off being a great idea, from a great company, with lots of support from carriers and manufacturers, and an awesome $10million contest to get developers drooling. With some stiff competition from Apple, and loss of developer morale, I’m afraid of what the future might hold for this platform. Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:29:18 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2709604frameworksjavamobileopinionProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2702592 unknown@DZone.com Sun Microsystems announced LWUIT at the last JavaOne Conference. It is an advanced user interface library, a feature much desired by JavaME developers. With LWUIT [1], you can develop powerful interfaces avoiding lcdui Form's constrains and without reinventing the wheel. In this series of articles, you are going to develop a simple but complete application to show weather forecasts (reading a RSS from Yahoo! Weather [2]), showing different capabilities from this library. Although it is still too soon to consider it stable, the source code isn't published yet, and there aren't too many devices "officially" tested (although it is in fact very portable between devices), LWUIT is one of the most important innovations in the JavaME world. Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:09:59 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2702592announcementframeworksjavamobileProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2699776 unknown@DZone.com This tutorial has helpful pointers for developers who are just getting started with Android. In addition to Google’s documentation on the SDK itself, there are lots of tools that come with the SDK and others that you can download elsewhere that make it a little bit easier to work with Android. Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:57:58 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2699776javamobileProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2697240 unknown@DZone.com It's been several months since my last blog. The reason is that I have been deeply involved in this new product called MEP (Mobile Enterprise Platform) and I really couldn't say much about it. However, version 1.0 has just been released, so it's time to open the blog gates. See announcement here for additional info about MEP. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:40:32 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2697240frameworksjavamobileserverProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2695744 unknown@DZone.com Watching the cloud of hype around last week's release of the new iPhone, I was struck by the way Apple's psychological influence over the tech industry continues to grow. Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:53:36 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2695744ApplemobileopinionProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2694796 unknown@ma.gnolia.com RIM's soon-to-be-released "iPhone Killer" is pretty interesting. It features a multi touch screen with tactile feedback. Apparently, when you press an on-screen key, the screen actually depresses slightly and provides haptic feedback in the form of a buzz under your finger where you pressed on the screen. Just hearing about it, I'm not sure it's something I'd want, but I'd love to feel it for myself. If it work well, it could be very cool. It uses WebKit for its browser. I also like how the phone does full QWERTY in landscape and RIM's SureType in portrait -- clever choice. Saved By: Jeff Croft | View Details | Give Thanks Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2694796cssNone assignedfriendfeedgreasemonkeyiconsphotographyreadPoliticsnewyorkerobamaAnti-SpamAnti-VirusWeb FilterIntrusion Preventionflashlearningvia:mento.infowordpressabstractblogEarthenvironmentalislamOSXSoftwareencryptionweb developmentseobusinessglobalizationbinauralbeatsMeditationbinauralblackberryblackberrythundercellphonemobile http://web2announcer.com/go/2691039 unknown@DZone.com Everyone who owns an iPhone (or who has been holding out for an iPhone 3G) is bound to be excited about a lot of the new things the device can finally do, particularly the introduction of third-party applications. This article includes full details of the APIs for DOM Events for touches and gestures with the new iPhone Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:36:27 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2691039ajaxApplejavascriptmobileProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2688152 unknown@DZone.com On my various trips and presentations around the world I often get asked to comment on Google's Android effort. I've blogged about Android before and mostly what I said then still holds true now. Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:58:34 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2688152javamobileopinionProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2681793 unknown@DZone.com Rich UI toolkit for JavaME inspired by Swing. It's open source and on java.net. Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:46:06 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2681793javamobileProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2677427 unknown@DZone.com Designing for mobile interfaces can be difficult for a variety of reasons. Here are few tips and hints to consider when designing for mobile interfaces. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:22:04 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2677427mobileusabilityweb designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2673453 unknown@DZone.com Cascada Mobile, just release a beta of their Breeze mobile application development and distribution platform. What Breeze does is take applications that are written in HTML, JavaScript and CSS and compiles it into J2ME. It then tests the J2ME code against 100s of phones, ports them to those phones (a version is created for each phone type) and makes it easy for developers to distribute applications. Breeze also guides developers unfamiliar with writing mobile apps on how to use the native features of mobile phones such as contact lists or the camera. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:10:36 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2673453css-htmljavascriptmobiletoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2673160 unknown@DZone.com This month we have even more then in May in fact, we have almost tripple, we cover topics such as Deliver Next-Generation SOA Apps with Microsoft Robotics Development Studio, Get Started Building Silverlight 2 Applications, TypeTransmogrifier, Windows Mobile: Communicating with the Outside World and many more. Enjoy! Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:13:03 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2673160.nethow-tomobileweb designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2663455 unknown@DZone.com Java ME user interfaces are about to get an exciting boost with the early release of a new library and tool from Sun called LWUIT. Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:39:56 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2663455frameworksguijavamobileProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2661374 unknown@DZone.com After an expansion phase that saw the introduction of the iPhone, Android, LiMo, and JavaFX Mobile, the mobile phone platform landscape is shrinking again. Nokia today announced it plans to spend $410 million to acquire the pieces of Symbian Ltd. that it doesn’t already own, and then give it away as open source under the Eclipse Public License. Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:06:43 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2661374eclipsemobileopen sourceopinionProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2660412 unknown@DZone.com Some time ago I decided to write a simple template to facilitate the task of creating a new J2ME project.
 
 The template is a Netbeans project that can be used as a base to build a J2ME game or application. Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:13:01 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2660412gamesjavamobileopen sourceProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2657437 unknown@DZone.com The new platform war for the mobile market is very similar to the platform war of 1984 for the desktop OS. There is one key difference...Steve Jobs is sticking around for this one. Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:27:02 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2657437AppleMicrosoftmobiletrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2654896 unknown@ma.gnolia.com Saved By: Ole Wiemeler | View Details | Give Thanks Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2654896tagcloudcheatsheetreferencefontscssbrowseriewebfontswebfonts.infoRalfHerrmanntypetoolsmemorynumbersinspirationbrynn evanslecturessocial searchinformation assimilationbikinghowtodevelopmentpythondjangodocumentationrubysysadminframeworktexturesbackgroundNone assignedtree456ApplefreemacOSXmobilecomparisonw3cxhtml http://web2announcer.com/go/2654074 unknown@DZone.com Great introductory videos on Android platform architecture, development, and sample applications. Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:15:46 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2654074javamobileProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2649449 unknown@DZone.com Android is a complete open source stack that allows one to build mobile applications. The stack includes an operating system, middleware and common applications. It also provides us with a Java API to develop our own custom mobile applications. Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:29:21 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2649449eclipsejavamobileopen sourceProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2647305 unknown@DZone.com The last article explained, how sequences are represented in the runtime and touched some of the possibilities to create new JavaFX sequences in Java programs. This article and the follow-up will focus on sequence-creation and give an overview of additional possibilities. Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:12:09 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2647305javamobileProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2646281 unknown@DZone.com Sample GUI Java application runing on IPhone Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:38:59 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2646281AppleguijavamobileProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2645605 unknown@DZone.com So you'd think you'd see a rush of developers dropping their Android projects to get on the the Apple bandwagon. But based on conversations we've been having with developers, it doesn't look like that's happening. Why not? Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:01:24 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2645605Applemobileopen sourcetrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2638712 unknown@DZone.com Yesterday we pointed out an image on Apple’s Web site that is indicative of an iPhone 3G displaying Adobe Flash content, but may have simply been a case of the company’s graphic design team cropping a Desktop browser image to fit the device’s screen. We’ve now discovered another bit of evidence that, albeit similarly speculative, would seem to show an iPhone 3G making use of Flash. Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:53:56 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2638712Appleflash-flexmobileProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2637601 unknown@ma.gnolia.com QIK, streaming video right from your phone. Saved By: Scott O'Raw | View Details | Give Thanks Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2637601htmlemailcssagainst naturegitstockimagesSoundnoisefreedownloadseowordpressguideinternet-marketingimportedfontstutorialinterestingdesign pattern librarydesign patternsquoteswebProgrammingveenStartupsconferencepresentationspresentation softwareonline appsNone assignedsocial networkreputationDesignmobiletv http://web2announcer.com/go/2636810 unknown@DZone.com A day late? Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:38:43 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2636810ApplemobilereviewstoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2636596 unknown@DZone.com Of course, $199 isn't the real price, from either side. But nobody cares. In the UK, the cheapest you'll manage is £99 ($194) for the 8GB handset, plus 18 months x £30 ($59) equals £639 ($1250). Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:48:36 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2636596ApplemobileNewstrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2636094 unknown@DZone.com At the risk of sounding like a sore loser (who wouldn’t be, after missing out on $25,000) and ignoring for a moment the shortcomings of my own application (of which I am intimately aware), I am going to discuss the limitations of the ADC itself. Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:15:12 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2636094javamobileopinionProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2635901 unknown@DZone.com The article presents a mobile device application that uses serial ports to simulate a bluetooth connection Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:56:30 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2635901mobileother languagesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2634758 unknown@DZone.com I really, really wanted to love the new iPhone. See, the original was really wonderful, but still not quite good enough for me... I have an unnatural, unhealthy relationship with my smartphone, and I was hoping that the new Iphone would bring Apple's device at least up to par with what I have, but it fell short. Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:38:21 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2634758ApplemobileopinionProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2634598 unknown@DZone.com Do you have an IPhone and you are looking to execute J2ME application on it? Then take a look at this article which shows two way of running J2ME applications on IPhone. Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:29:04 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2634598javamobileProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2631863 unknown@DZone.com With much fanfare Apple announced the availability of the iPhone SDK. I downloaded it and someday plan to play around with it, though with the SDK already having gone through 4 or 5 beta releases (each a ~2GB download) I’ll probably wait a long time before cracking it open. However, for web applications the best way to integrate with an iPhone is still through the browser. Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:18:50 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2631863.nethow-tomobileProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2630906 unknown@DZone.com With this tutorial you will be able to install Java on the IPhone, compile and run simple Java applications using IPhone. Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:00:29 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2630906Applehow-tojavamobileProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2629679 unknown@ma.gnolia.com Saved By: assbach | View Details | Give Thanks Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2629679presentationspresentation softwareonline appsgoogleshellcliinteraction designatmhuman-computer interactionreadabilitywebtoolsfontstutorialtypographytypefacesoperating systemNone assignedDesignxenxfnadactiohcardjournalistikkskrivingintervjuNorskdownloadsquadsurf canyonweb searchlaterloopmentomobilearticles http://web2announcer.com/go/2625840 unknown@DZone.com With our shiny new iPhone site ready for public consumption, we thought we’d share some things we learned while building it. Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:27:53 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2625840Applehow-tomobileweb designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2624657 unknown@DZone.com Apple recently filed a new patent application (us20080122796ki). On more than 370 pages lots of new potential features and enhancements for IPhone’s hardware and software are described. The most interesting Hardware part is a GPS receiver and a camera for video conferencing. Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:41:31 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2624657ApplemobiletrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2622010 unknown@DZone.com As a Java developer, this discussion sounds familiar to you. Every now and then, you have to answer this question from customers, your marketing people, fellow developers,... . My personal answer on this question is shifting a bit from the "Enterprise advantages" to the "Mobile opportunities". I see the same shift in other pieces of software, including GlassFish v3. Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:12:26 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2622010javamobileopinionserverProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2617736 unknown@DZone.com Invited by some friends at Google, I went to Google I/O this week to find out about Android, and specifically their Java story. I went to a few talks and had some excellent chats with various colleagues. Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:02:56 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2617736javamobileopen sourceProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2616234 unknown@ma.gnolia.com Saved By: assbach | View Details | Give Thanks Sun, 01 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2616234devtooltipsmind mapoutlinetextconvertercomputingcodingDevelopment Platformswebicontoolconversionimagegolden_ratioDesigncoolvia:mento.infoweb layout samplejavascriptwebdesignphotoswebtoolsgoogle_searchlaterloopmentomobilearticles http://web2announcer.com/go/2614357 unknown@DZone.com Turns out I was completely wrong. Teenagers don’t give a damn about those gimmicky little games on their mobile phones, they just use them because they’re there. The iPhone’s coolness factor and the built in iPod is all that matters. Fri, 30 May 2008 20:36:40 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2614357ApplejavamobileopinionProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2610686 unknown@ma.gnolia.com Some interesting pictures and video of Google's Android mobile device OS. Saved By: Rick Curran | View Details | Give Thanks Thu, 29 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2610686jqueryjavascriptajaxcodeiconsframeworkdemosweb-devwebtoolswebdesignphotosrubyDesignreferenceblogphotohowtotutorialphotoshopcoolvia:mento.infodeveloper toolsfuninnovativemacscreensaverAppleOSXgooglegoogle mapscamerahacksrailsdesign tipsandroidgoogle androidmobile http://web2announcer.com/go/2605590 unknown@DZone.com A simple and hands-on tutorial for beginners in Android. Original . Sun, 25 May 2008 18:48:04 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2605590how-tojavamobiletrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2586533 unknown@DZone.com I read Schalk’s “Adobe announces Open Screen Project” at DZone today. Quite amazing what Adobe is doing here. They skip the licensing of the most important protocols and file formats. These are free to use now, independent from the platform, context, whatever you like. Wed, 14 May 2008 18:33:31 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2586533flash-flexjavamobileopinionProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2581727 unknown@DZone.com Android handset in the wild - E28 Mon, 12 May 2008 15:06:10 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2581727javamobileNewsopen sourceProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2579909 unknown@DZone.com ...the Livescribe Smartpen, which comes with a Java-based development kit. The pen is cool: it's a pen with ink, but it also has a tiny camera in the pen-tip that is watching what you write, 72 times a second. It records all of your writing strokes, and also has a microphone built into it so it can record what you hear, too. It's great for taking notes, in ways that is much easier to understand when you try it yourself. But I'll try to explain just part of it here. Sun, 11 May 2008 06:24:20 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2579909HardwarejavamobileopinionProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2577679 unknown@DZone.com Actually Geert’s talk was called “Boldly Go Where Java Has Never Gone Before” but to me it was really centered on the idea of Java-the-language as interface. Fri, 09 May 2008 11:29:46 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2577679javajavascriptmobileProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2573836 unknown@DZone.com I was using the iUI toolkit, which contains a number of CSS styles and JavaScript event handlers to make iPhone Web apps look and feel somewhat like native iPhone applications. As I was working with iUI, I realized I was building up a library, so I converted everything to a Rails plugin: rails_iui. Tue, 06 May 2008 17:40:11 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2573836AppleframeworksmobilerubyProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2568009 unknown@DZone.com Adobe's announcement of the open screen project is the biggest announcement for the world of RIA today. Pretty much every player in the mobile market, with the exception of Apple, seems to be supporting this effort. Fri, 02 May 2008 21:37:12 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2568009flash-flexmobileProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2565639 unknown@DZone.com For years, Java ME developers have faced difficult choices when it comes to application UIs. Because of the multitude of platform and device features and differences there was really no common UI story - there is MIDP for CLDC and AWT for CDC, APIs like JSR 226 (SVG) and JSR 209 (AGUI), and finally a number of 3rd party toolkits such as J2ME Polish. Thu, 01 May 2008 09:11:54 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2565639frameworksguijavamobileProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2564547 unknown@DZone.com An interesting couple of posts in the past week by Morten Hjerde, in which he compiles Norwegian usage data (mobile phones with color screens, support for Java and a web browser). Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:36:25 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2564547mobiletrendsweb designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2560764 unknown@DZone.com Sun continues to pursue talks with Apple to have Java applications run on the iPhone while acknowledging a third party's efforts toward the same goal. Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:45:51 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2560764ApplejavamobileNewsProgramming