Well, I've got fed up with the same daily tasks... Coding..Reviews..Rework..Deadlines.
Wanted to do some thing new apart from this. Wandering around in week end, i garbbed a
touchscreen phone in a mobile store. After playing around withit thought of developping
some apps. This opened up a new world of life to me. "J2me".
So I started reading about J2me. First 2 weeks just grasped some articles and stuffs for dummies.
Then sniffed few intermediate example codes. After getting confidence on the basics..then i started wondering what to develop. After brief search, i was able to find out that not many Java J2me player apps are available in the market now. Started work immediately on looking for the tutorials on media api's. Got hold of half completed c-tunes from google code site. Within week of research i was able to figure out that developing j2me mp3 player was not possible for nubes like me. I left my first dream of developing Java mp3 player.
The second option that i had was to develop an SMS app with more feature then it comes in default phone applications.
I would want frequently buzzing contacts.. Msg list.. Able to tap emotion characters in single touch :-) .. word completion.. and offcourse a big keypad for typing .
With these in mind.. started looking out if any source code in net..Fortunately found a front end application which covers part of them in one of the forums.
Well enough for today.. I shall post out further details about this in my next care.
Dec-26:
Vacation season started :-) Happy times... now. 3 weeks back was searching for example codes to regarding drawing the in text vertical path i.e y-axis. Fortunately found a link where some great person had posted the GUI of SMS editor written in J2me.
I immediatly downloaded the code and ran on netbeans to check whether it compiles... Hurray it compiled and was able to see the output screen in emulator phone. But the output of the keyboard screen did not fit in the mobile screen.
Now i decided to build on top of this open source gui code. next 3 weeks i did a code walk through of in my leasure times. Also grabbed book with title J2ME IN A NUTSELL (A desktop quick reference) from my office library.
Tweaking around with the code, I made the output fit into the 240x320 screen. The GUI was written very well. Thanks to Mr X(Name not known) who has made it opensource.
----+-- Break needed========== I'am lazy.. Closing :-)
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