[JDEV] Developing client for Palm / SonyEricsson P800

[Tijl Houtbeckers]

Timothy Carpenter <timbeau_hk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote on 15-9-2003 12:54:41:
>
>On 15/9/03 10:34 am, "Colin Bell" <colinb at gatewest.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi Bart
>> 
>>> I'm curious what your thoughs are on this project. What language
>>> should I use, what development packages are available, what packages
>>> work well? Are there existing clients that I've used (I've found a 
>>> few but knowing the Jabber community I've probably missed a couple).
>>>  Other thoughts?
>> 
>> I would say Java is the way forward. There is a Java api (Symbian 
>> uses a trimmed down version of java) development package available 
>> for the P800, and plenty of Java Jabber Api's around (I use muse, 
>> which is a bit big for a phone client, but can be trimmed down). The 
>> combination of these api's should give you everything you need to 
>> create your client, including camera and GPRS support.
>> 
>
>Beware of P800! I am developing apps on P800 and the Java support is 
>pitiful at this time. No camera, no SMS, no BIO, no MMS, no Bluetooth. 
>Basically games only, and "game over, man" if you want to do much else.
> It is, basically, stripped down MIDP 1.0 and some ruins of 
> PersonalJava 
>loitering around.

You can do JNI with those "reminants" of PersonalJava though, so if you 
do your best you can do everything in Java what you *can* do in Java, 
and the rest in native C++. For a beginner in Java *and* C(++) JNI can 
be a little bit difficult maybe.. but doing JNI on the UIQ emulator. 
I'd rather try programming it in brainfuck... 

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Tijl Houtbeckers
Software Engineer @ Splendo
The Netherlands