[OSM-talk] Mobile countryside surveying tool
Kai Krueger
kakrueger at gmail.com
Wed Sep 30 15:20:09 BST 2009
John Smith wrote:
> 2009/9/30 Nick Whitelegg <Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk>:
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>> Target platform would be any device supporting JavaME.
>
> Why JavaME exactly?
Well, perhaps because it is by far the most wide spread mobile
programming language?!
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.
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> It's kind of getting long in the tooth compared to JVMs running on
> modern smart phones....
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 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.
>
> Not to mention smart phones usually have a soft or hard keyboard,
> rather than twiddling about with 12 keys to type things out....
Actually, you can do all that perfectly fine with JavaME. It has support
for full keyboards and touch screen handling.
Kai
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