2009/10/1 Kai Krueger <kakrue...@gmail.com>: > Well, perhaps because it is by far the most wide spread mobile programming > language?!
It may be, but how many of those phones come with a built in GPS? Most of the time you need to buy a BT add on which uses/wastes even more battery... > It is only really Apple with the iPhone who once again decided to be > incompatible with everyone else (and admittedly now Android too). Pretty > much every other phone including windows Mobile phones and Blackberry have > some support for JavaME although the quality of the JVM widley varies. J2ME apps look horrible on BB, native apps at least look a little nicer, and work a lot better then j2me apps do. It's a pain in the butt trying to navigate on a BB when you are used to track ball etc and you are forced to use some weird key layouts suited for some generic phone with only a number pad. > Yes, it has its issues, no doubt, and so it is good to see some evolution in > this space, but JavaME pretty much remains the only option if you don't > won't to rewrite large parts of your code for each available phone. It is by Most of the code that needs to be re-written is GUI code, which would need to be re-written for most smart phone platforms, most j2me apps just don't work well on smart phones, or at all in the case of android, iphone and probably palm web OS... > now also a fairly capable language that is perfectly suitable for > applications like these. The mayor issue really is the stupid security > modell and DRM stuff but that is not that much better elsewhere either. Smart phones seem to have relaxed this so it's now usable. > Actually, you can do all that perfectly fine with JavaME. It has support for > full keyboards and touch screen handling. JavaME might support it, but I haven't seen any j2me only phones support it. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
