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Vikram Goyal

Vikram Goyal is the author of Pro Java ME MMAPI, published by Apress. This book explains how to add audio, video and other multimedia capabilities to a Java enabled phone. Vikram is also the author of the Jakarta Commons Online Bookshelf. In his spare time, Vikram helps manage a free craft projects website. Vikram hopes to start his own mobile industry initiative soon. You can contact him at tech@craftbits.com.
 

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Many Java ME devices can play small files, but what about streaming media in real time? "Pro Java ME MMAPI" author Vikram Goyal takes a look at what it takes to set up a streaming server and then develop ME classes for modeling and handling packets... only to run into the harsh realities of today'...
In part four of this J2ME tutorial, you will use the Mobile Media API 1.1 (MMAPI) to load and play audio and video on your MIDP device.
In part three of this J2ME tutorial, you will use the mobile gaming package to develop a simple game, which uses all of the classes of this package, as a learning tool.
In part two of the J2ME tutorial you will create the user interface (UI) elements of a MIDlet. Since the interaction with a user is a paramount concern in any MIDlet, due to the size of the screens, it is important for you to understand the basics of this side of MIDlets. Any interaction with a...
Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) combines a resource-constrained JVM and a set of Java APIs for developing applications for mobile devices. Here is a step-by-step guide to creating MIDlets, testing and deploying these MIDlets, and a look at the lifecycle of a MIDlet.
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A report in Australian IT says that while Europe is and will remain the largest market for mobile gambling, Asian markets will provide sharp growth. North America will remain "the great unknown"...

It is common knowledge that mobile device applications require a special effort to define an interface for them. Minimal is not only in, but a required aspect of all such applications. But to me,...

Last month or so has seen a lot of activity in JCP with regards to J2ME related JSRs.

New JSRs:
-- Service Connection API for...

Javaworld reports that Sun and Japan's NTT DoCoMo have combined forces to update DoCoMo's inbuilt Java...

Consider these facts:

-- There are 708 million J2ME based phones as compared to 700 million PC based Java deployments.

-- The market for commercial mobile applications is set to...

I am giving a presentation on Mobile Java this Wednesday (13th July) to the Australian Computer Society's Software Developers Special Interest Group in Brisbane, Australia.

If you in the...

Ok, so the title of this post says it all. I wish I was at JavaOne.

There is an absolute smorgasbord ...

I am a little ambivalent about using the new mobility pack from Netbeans. The visual mobile designer for...

I recently noticed JSR 209 that promises to migrate Swing UI set to MIDlets, amongst other things. The API is in public review and the last date...

The finalists in Javamasters 2005 were announced yesterday. There are two categories, Student and Business. A team of experts from Sun and Siemens narrowed the entries to the top 10 in each...

This month's newsletter from JCP contains four JSR's that are directly related to J2ME.

1. JSR 253, Mobile Telephony API - Allows you to...

J2ME wireless toolkit 2.2 comes with the promise of a reference implementation of MMAPI 1.1. However, the actual version distributed with the toolkit is 1.0 and not 1.1.

So where is the...