Cesar has shared his experience of making a very simple DICE J2ME application, which I believe could serve as a good tutorial for J2ME starters.
Though same thing can be done with few lines of code in Macromedia FlashLite. But I really find it worth mentioning here.
Tutorial Link: http://www.design-nation.net/en/archives/000445.php
Posted by Abdul Qabiz at January 6, 2005 07:54 PMTrue, J2ME works on a lot more phones than FlashLite at this point. FlashLite just needs more time, for more flashlite supporting phones to be available + people to buy the new phones. Lots of potential there...
nik
Posted by: Nik Khilnani at January 6, 2005 08:56 PMYou're absolutely right!.
The same thing can be done with a few lines of code in FlashLite.
I've gathered a quick example and posted it here:
http://www.design-nation.net/en/archives/000450.php
Posted by: Cesar Tardaguila at January 7, 2005 04:16 AMHi Cesar,
You are real quick guy! Thanks for doing that. It's really good to see both of examples side by side. No explanation would be required in support of FlashLite.
Nik, your right. If we see, FlashLite has started a couple of years back. Where as Java as a platform for devices, has been available for many years. FlashLite won't take long time to be at that level.
We already have a big Flash community and learning curve to develop FlashLite apps is very short. So opertors would probably realize the potential & market. We as developers/designers community would make difference :)
I have already filed a petition on this blog for FlashLite support in devices given by Reliance, on e of the largest mobile operators in India.
http://www.abdulqabiz.com/blog/archives/mobile_devices/000073.php
Posted by: Abdul Qabiz at January 7, 2005 02:48 PMI also think there's a lot of potential in Flash Lite, but there's still a lot to do.
There are some things ( like some kind of data persistence ) that must be improved to make Flashlite a serious J2ME competitior.
But, there are some other things where Flashlite is much better than J2ME, like animated backgrounds, screensavers, ...
Anyway, we need more supported devices, and more support from the operators.
Just my 2 cents.
Posted by: Cesar Tardaguila at January 7, 2005 03:27 PMflash lite will explode in the next 12 months depending on the vendors shippment of the devices comptabile with flash...
It would be interesting when we can access the files from inbox to our application..
Right! Macromedia FlashLite 2.0 would support ActionScript 2.0 syntax and has many other new capablities.
Please send your wishes to Macromedia FlashLite team, so that they are aware what kind of features you looking for.
You can log bugs or send wishes/enhancement-requests, using following link:
http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
-abdul
Posted by: Abdul Qabiz at November 14, 2005 09:45 PM