Introduction to Lightweight User Interface Toolkit

By cayo

Lightweight User Interface Toolkit is a framework created by Sun to overcome the lack of rich GUI  components available nowadays by the J2ME platform. His structural concept is based on Swing/AWT component type, rescuing the techniques of JavaSE for mobile devices. LWUIT  do not have compatibility with the canvas library, so there’s no way to [...]

An example app with Location API and Google Maps

By thiagosales

Hi all!! In this post i will show you an interesting application with Location API. The goal is to get the GPS position (with Location API - JSR 179) and plot the position with Google Maps.

The Location API (JSR179)

The Location API (JSR 179 - an optional package) javax.microedition.location aims at helping the development of location-based [...]

Canvas Vs Game Canvas

By katia

In this article I will show some differences between Canvas and GameCanvas. I will show an example where an actor is represented by a square that moves freely on the screen.

Canvas

Known as low-level user interface it provides a rich variety of possibilities to draw onto the display. A class which extends Canvas has to implement [...]

J2MEUnit for Unit Testing Cases

By admin

Authors: Cayo Mesquita, Thiago Sales and Ivo Calado
In this post, we will show you how to build unit tests through J2MEUnit library. This tool aims at helping the development of unit testing as well as JUnit framework can do for you. For more information about J2MEUnit, click here.
Installing J2MEUnit: We are considering that you have [...]