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Java J2ME Section Index

Getting Started with JUnit on Android
By Lauren Darcey & Shane Conder
| Java J2ME Article Published 16-Aug-11

JUnit is a great unit testing platform for Java applications and now it offers special APIs for Android developers. Learn how to get started with JUnit on Android.

Create Flexible Android UIs with Fragments
By Lauren Darcey & Shane Conder
| Java J2ME Article Published 06-Jun-11

The Android Fragment API enables developers to create flexible user interfaces for different screen sizes and provide screen workflow alternatives. Learn how to use this API.

10 Must-Have Android Tools for Developers
By Lauren Darcey & Shane Conder
| Java J2ME Article Published 08-Apr-11

The Android SDK ships with dozens of tools. These 10 are the most important for Android developers to know.

Oracle Tool Lets Developers Extend Java Apps to Mobile Platforms
By Sean Michael Kerner
| Java J2ME Article Published 14-Mar-11

New Oracle Application Development Framework Mobile Client enables developers to extend enterprise apps to Java-enabled smartphones.

Android Development 101: Tools Review of Android SDK
By Chris Bennett
| Java J2ME Article Published 25-Feb-11

Chris Bennett demonstrates the Android development tools provided with the Google Android SDK in this concise video.

Protect Your Android Applications from Software Piracy
By Lauren Darcey & Shane Conder
| Java J2ME Article Published 24-Feb-11

With ProGuard support in the Eclipse ADT plugin, Android developers can maintain a level of protection in their Android application code.

RIM Bets on WebWorks for BlackBerry App Development Platform
By Chris King
| Java J2ME Article Published 04-Feb-11

RIM chooses WebWorks as a common mobile development environment across BlackBerry smartphones and the upcoming PlayBook tablet.

Spring Android: Bringing Spring Components to Your Android Apps
By Chris King
| Java J2ME Article Published 02-Feb-11

Spring Android helps unify the worlds of enterprise and Android development, offering a simple framework for accessing RESTful resources.

Android Is Closer to Windows Phone 7 Than Developers May Think
By Glen Kunene
| Java J2ME Article Published 01-Dec-10

The differences between Android and Windows Phone 7 are mostly skin deep, so enterprising Android developers can port their current apps over to Windows Phone 7.

How a Java Developer Can Build a Windows Phone 7 Application
By Glen Kunene
| Java J2ME Article Published 26-Oct-10

Want more distribution for your Java mobile app? Learn how to translate your Java skills onto the Windows Phone 7 platform.

Building Killer Android Tablet Apps: Design and Development Tips
By Shane Conder
| Java J2ME Article Published 25-Oct-10
Android tablets are coming. Luckily, many design principles for writing great Android tablet apps really apply to all device targets.

Using Location-Enabled MIDlets for Mobile Navigation
By Jayasurya Venugopalan
| Java J2ME Article Published 17-Jun-09
Learn how to combine the Location API for J2ME and Scalable Vector Graphics to provide navigation for a GPS-enabled mobile device.

The Dos and Don'ts of a Java Position Interview
By Liviu Tudor
| Java J2ME Article Published 07-May-09
If you've looked for a Java position or if you are on the other side and are looking to fill a Java position in your company, then here are a few tips that will come in handy.

Introducing a Lightweight UI Toolkit: Shake Your User Interface
By Ibon Urrutia
| Java J2ME Article Published 25-Sep-08
Flash Lite developers aren't the only ones who can make animated user interfaces easily; Java ME developers also can benefit with the aid of the Lightweight UI Toolkit. Shake your Forms, baby!

Images, Drawn Graphics, and Event Handling in a MIDlet
By Richard G. Baldwin
| Java J2ME Article Published 09-Sep-08
Learn how to paint images, draw graphics, and do event handling on a cell phone screen.

Building a Simple BlackBerry Application Interface
By Jeff Langr
| Java J2ME Article Published 14-Aug-08
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
| Java J2ME Article Published 08-Aug-08
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
| Java J2ME Article Published 30-Jul-08
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
| Java J2ME Article Published 24-Jul-08
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.

Introducing a Lightweight UI Toolkit: Bringing Desktop Development into Java ME
By Ibon Urrutia
| Java J2ME Article Published 17-Jul-08
Are you a JavaME developer bored of Forms and Lists? Do you want to create mobile apps with user interfaces of the 21st Century? Try to do it with the LWUIT library.

Mapping with Google APIs in Android
By Chunyen Liu
| Java J2ME Article Published 18-Jun-08

Learn how to tap into the many great mapping functionalities in Android.

Programming MIDlets for Interactive Behavior
By Richard G. Baldwin
| Java J2ME Article Published 17-Jun-08
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.

Working with Images in Google's Android
By Chunyen Liu
| Java J2ME Article Published 21-May-08

Google's new mobile platform, Android, has become increasingly popular among developers even without hardware available on the market yet. Discover where to get the right software APIs and documentation as well as what technologies are supported. Then, you will focus on the technologies for images by working through an example.

Using Alerts, Images, Timers, and Gauges in MIDlets
By Richard G. Baldwin
| Java J2ME Article Published 25-Mar-08
Learn how to program an Alert for a MIDlet, add an image to the Alert, add a Gauge to the Alert to act as a progress or activity meter, and how to use a Timer to control when an Alert becomes visible on the screen.

Handling Life-Cycle Issues with the MIDlet User Interface
By Richard G. Baldwin
| Java J2ME Article Published 26-Feb-08
Learn to program MIDlet user interfaces that minimize the MIDlet's memory footprint while the MIDlet is paused making consistent use of the MIDlet class methods to satisfy the life cycle rules of MIDlets.

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