There’s a thought provoking post on Gorkem Ercan’s blog asking does Java have a place in the future of mobile devices? Gorkem works for Nokia in the Nokia S60 Java platform team working mainly with Java and eclipse based technologies.
Gorkem sees one possible scenario as being…
"Android Java becomes so favored that OSS projects start for […]

Andrew Ebling, author of iBlueSky emailed me regarding the charts I published last week. He suggested one metric that he thought would be interesting to consider would be the relative difficulty of addressing device fragmentation.

This chart is trying to say a lot of things and generalises a lot so it needs some explanation. On the […]

From feedback, it seems my post yesterday on the relative development difficulties of the various mobile platforms was popular. People like charts, so here’s another showing the platforms on which people are currently seeking to develop. The statistics are based on leads for work I have received in the last two months. 
 
The largest category is […]

I often get asked if Android is ever likely to support Java ME rather than the Dalvik variant. These people usually have already made a significant investment in developing for Java ME. While the T-Mobile G1 doesn’t support Java ME, it’s possible that future Android phones might include a Java ME JVM because Esmertec is […]

Packt Publishing have contacted me asking if I would be interested in authoring a book on LWUIT. Unfortunately, I am too busy at the moment so there’s an opportunity available for someone.
Packt are looking for someone who preferably (but not compulsorily) has a knowledge of LWUIT.
"If the author knows Java ME (Java mobile edition) and […]

There are some interesting things happening to LWUIT. LWUIT provides a graphically rich UI replacement for the standard Java ME controls. In implementing the UI itself, it’s possible for LWUIT to include code that records events to a file. Events can also be played back.
As I see it, this creates some interesting possibilities…

Creating of self […]

Handango have just released their Yardstick for the first half of 2008.
The Handango press release says…
"Palm OS has not released any new devices in 2008 and therefore, Palm OS devices have fallen out of the top 10 list of smartphones adding content."
and… […]