Newest Java J2ME Articles Building a Simple BlackBerry Application Interface By Jeff Langr - Published 08/14/2008 Building applications for the BlackBerry involves a few interesting wrinkles. Explore some of these challenges in building a front end for a new BlackBerry unit testing framework.
Android: A Brief Introduction By Shane Conder - Published 08/08/2008 Discover Android, an open source mobile platform being developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance.
Handling Lengthy Operations in Google's Android By Chunyen Liu - Published 07/30/2008 To work on mobile devices, Google's Android must adhere to similar design standards that will produce the desired user experience. Your software always needs to be responsive to the user's interaction. Pick up some tips to avoid blocking the execution of the main thread and update the main view when the results are available from the child threads.
A Unit Testing Framework for the BlackBerry By Jeff Langr - Published 07/24/2008 What do you do when there's no effective unit testing framework for your programming environment? Why, build your own, of course! Building a simple unit testing framework for the BlackBerry provides some interesting insights into the BlackBerry programming environment.
Mapping with Google APIs in Android By Chunyen Liu - Published 06/18/2008 Learn how to tap into the many great mapping functionalities in Android.
Programming MIDlets for Interactive Behavior By Richard G. Baldwin - Published 06/17/2008 Discover how to add commands to a MIDlet and how those commands are presented to the user in the Sun cell phone emulator. You will also learn how to produce interactive behavior within a MIDlet.