Mobile Programming Pit Stop

Video: Fast and Furious – Pink Slip Mobile Phone Game

Can be installed on Java ME supported phone

Available from: http://www.filesonic.com/file/1726936704

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MyDistress – Mobile App for sending Personal Distress Signal to Malaysian Police

The Royal Malaysian Police (Selangor state) has released MyDistress – a mobile application for sending personal distress call to Malaysian Police. MyDistress can automatically detect the location of the distress call sender and notify nearby police station of the distress.

To use MyDistress, the user are required to register the application by providing full name, MyKad number and home address. MyDistress is available for iPhone (via iTunes store – Malaysia), Android (marketplace), Blackberry and JavaME (*.jar)

Joke: How Smartphone users see each other (Android,Blackberry, iPhone)

Source: Android and Me

Video: Samsung Galaxy Tab 7″ from inside out (dissected)

This video from jkkmobile.com shows the insides Samsung Galaxy Tab 7″ when it was dissected

German courts Lift ban against Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in European Union

It seems that the German court has lifted Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1″ bans from European Union after it was discovered that the evidence presented by Apple Lawyers are flawed, specifically the aspect ratio of Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1″ image was mistakenly represented as closer to Apple’s Ipad 2, which violates Apple Intellectual Property rights.

The flawed evidence has given Samsung the rights to market Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1″ in European Union, except in Germany, where the court over there would hear a full hearing to that matter beginning on 25 August 2011.

My thoughts: Apple has all the rights to protect its intellectual property, including protecting its interests from imitation. However, the use of patents to curb competition can be seen as unhealthy as it could adversely affect innovation and consumer choice.

Install phoneME in Android to run JavaME middlets

As we all know, the Android is similar to JavaME because both runs on Java platform . However instead of executing the classfiles, Android add the extra step of converting the Java bytecode into alternative instruction set used by (into *.dex) Dalvik Virtual Machine, which makes it unable to run Java classfile (*.jar) normally used by JavaME.

Luckily, some brave soul has provided phoneME implementation for Android, which in turn enable users to execute Java MIDlet in Android. phoneME for Android can be downloaded from its website: http://davy.preuveneers.be/phoneme/?q=node/10#android

What you need to do is to download phoneME Advanced – Foundation Profile + MIDP or phoneME Advanced – Foundation Profile + MIDP High Resolution (240×320). The midlet manager provided with the distribution requires OpenIntents File Manager, which is used to browse for midlet *.jad or *.jar file.

So far, almost all core MIDP 2.0 functionality is available from the phoneME *.apk. The only incompatibilities arises from midlets that use optional JSR, which usually causes midlet manager to crash.

Android Videos: Designing portable UI for Phone and Tables

Google has released Honeycomb (3.1), which is designed for tablet computer in mind. Honeycomb comes with redesigned UI framework that helps developers create application with portable user-interface across devices that have different screen sizes and orientation.

The video detailed about UI design best practices for developers:

Easily Identify objects with Google Goggles magic (while mobile)

Google Goggles is a mobile app which can identify objects, barcodes, text, and does translation for you in a breeze. It works by analyzing the photos that you take with the app. Among the objects the Google Goggles recognize are:

• Texts
• Landmarks
• Contact Info / Business Cards
• Artwork
• Wine
• Logos

If you still don’t get what Google Goggle are for, then watch these videos:

Google Goggles is available from iTunes Store (for iPhone) and Android Marketplace (for Android) and it supports Android 2.1+

Ubuntu One Music Streaming App for iPhone, Music from the Cloud!

After much anticipation, Ubuntu One Music is now available for iPhone! The application lets the users streams music from their personal Ubuntu One cloud to iPhone.

Among the features of Ubuntu One Music for iPhone are:

• Supports MP3 and other non-DRM iTunes format
• Supports iOS 3.1+
• Able to sync music wirelessly between iPhone and the cloud wirelessly
• Easy to use user-interface
• Can resume playing song automatically when interrupted by a call

The Ubuntu One Music is available from iTunes App Store for free