May 30th, 2007

Radio in J2ME

Just a small tip:
to listen to radio in your midlet , use following code example:

Player player = Manager.createPlayer(“capture://radio?f=100.1&st=stereo”);
// This will tune to 100.1 FM frequency in stereo mode

May 16th, 2007

SNAP Mobile SDK Update

Developers will soon be able to develop applications that comply with the Mobile Operational Management JSR 232 standard (OSGi) and use SNAP Mobile in less-than-optimum networks, according to two announcements made by Nokia at JavaOne 2007.

Nokia is collaborating with Sprint to develop the JSR 232 Mobile Operational Management specification. Sprint says it will use OSGi technology in advanced 3G environments and consider the technology for future 4G environments. Separately, developers can expect more robust handling of networks that have less-than-optimum performance from the forthcoming SNAP Mobile SDK 1.4. The release is scheduled for the second quarter. The SNAP Mobile SDK is a suite of free developer tools, documentation, and sample code for creating connected Java mobile games that run on the SNAP Mobile platform; this latest update is backward-compatible with previous SDK releases.

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