Posts Tagged ‘Android’
Porting JavaME apps to Android is easier with J2ME Polish
Great news for JavaME developers! The J2ME Polish project has announced that their upcoming j2mepolish 2.1 toolkit suite will support porting JavaME apps to Google Android mobile platform automatically! This means that the current JavaME developers will enjoy the advantages of porting their existing mobile application to Android effortlessly.
According to their press release, the next j2mepolish release will focus on automating the process of converting JavaME MIDlets to iPhone application.
J2ME Polish 2.1: Android support?
Currently I’ve yet to see how a ported JavaME application would look like on an Android mobile phone, but hopefully it would be as good as the ordinary Google Android app. At this time of this writing, J2ME Polish 2.1 is only available as a preview release which can be downloaded from J2ME Polish website.
I’ll update this blog about this feature once J2ME Polish 2.1 has been released.
p/s: I’m Eager to know how a JavaME app will look like once its ported to Android.
Google Android Phone Kogan Agora delayed?
Probably a stale news for most of you, the touted second Google Android Phone on the market, Kogan Agora product has been canceled despite having received huge pre-orders. The official statement from Kogan Technologies website states that the Kogan Agora release is delayed indefinitely citing technical issues regarding is screen size and resolution.
Kogan Agora, estimated to be available by Christmas 2008, might not even be ready by this year (2009). Customer who pre-ordered Kogan is being refunded as this article were written.
Its a pity to see such affordable Google Android phone to be delayed indefinitely, while there are a lot of phone manufacturers behind Open Handset Alliance (OHA, the organization that backed Android), we have yet to see other Google Android phone surfaces besides HTC manufactured T-Mobile G1.
As for my personal opinion, I don’t think Android platform is worth investing in right now since the only supported Android phone in the market is the SIM-locked T-Mobile, and although there has been news that Motorola, Huawei and Sony Ericsson are preparing to release Android phone, I don’t think I will give in much hope for Android until I’ve seen on the shelf of my local mobile phone store (SIM-unlocked, just like normal phones that is)