iLabs mobile toolbox: J2ME applications without intolerable pain
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Introductory
Embedded, Mobile and Gaming
Room:
Lab 3
Timeslot:
17.09.08 11:45
Speakers: Bjørn Remseth, Stian Børresen and Else Nordhagen
The iLabs mobile toolbox is a an open source (Lesser Gnu Public License) java library for J2ME that makes it simple to make programs for social interaction on mobile phones. The library is quite portable, since it abstracts away some of the notorious problem spots in J2ME programming: Keyboard handling, camera and sound handling. It provides ready-made interfaces to Facebook, XMPP (Jabber), Blogger and other APIs necessary for social interaction. The library includes a web browser library written entirely in J2ME that has proven extremely useful both for web browsing, and for user interface development when embedded in applications (clicking on an image on a "webpage" can for instance start a camera for image capturing). During the talk we will outline the anatomy of an application, the main elements of the library, and we will demonstrate how to build and deploy several small applications.
Required experience
Some experience in program development.
No experience necessary with neither ilabs Mobile Toolkit or J2ME.
Some experience with use of social networking software an advantage (facebook, linkedin, orkut, or similar).
Expected audience
People with an interest in creating applications for mobile phones, either as developers (primary focus), or with ideas for mobile apps who need to know about things that are now simple to do using J2ME.
After the talk developers will be able to start developing J2ME applications using the iLabs mobile toolbox, people with ideas will know that some of their ideas may be feasible within a reasonable amount of development work.
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Bjørn RemsethBjørn Remseth. Cand. Scient. Research scientist at Telenor Research & Innovation. Bjørn has more than twenty years of experience as a sysadmin, developer, systems architect and research scientist.
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Stian BørresenStian Børresen MSc. Ten years experience in 3D graphics, web, mobile and rich client development. He is currently working as a consultant specializing in mobile application development using java.
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Else NordhagenElse Nordhagen. Dr. Scient. Research Scientist at Telenor Research & Innovation. More than thirty years of experience with object oriented design and implementation, 3D graphics, theoretical computer science and GUI design (from Smalltalk in the late seventies, to J2ME today).