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Alessandro ilmoitti blogissaan päivittäneensä Gcal mobiilisovelluksensa versioon 0.2.

Mikä Gcal on :

Gcal is a J2ME Google Calendar client. For those who have always wanted a Google Calendar client for their Java ME enabled cellphones, it is finally here! It’s still an early alpha, but everyone is welcome to try it and give feedbacks.

Tässä uudet ominaisuudet versiossa 0.2:

• Check for updates and auto-update features: you can now manually check for updates, or switch on auto-updates (from Settings screen) to always get the latest Gcal releases!
• More control over events: delete, duplicate and copy an event from a calendar to another in a snap!
• Comments: It’s now possible to add and view comments for an event
• More event details: event visibility (private/public) and available/busy status now available when creating an event
• Map viewing: different types of maps have been added, so you can now switch among satellite/terrain and other views
• Sending an event, with his details, via SMS

Kokeilkaa ihmeessä! Ohjelman voi ladata täältä.

Alessandro posted the latest version of his lately relased and free GCalendar mobile application. Check it out!

• Check for updates and auto-update features: you can now manually check for updates, or switch on auto-updates (from Settings screen) to always get the latest Gcal releases!
• More control over events: delete, duplicate and copy an event from a calendar to another in a snap!
• Comments: It’s now possible to add and view comments for an event
• More event details: event visibility (private/public) and available/busy status now available when creating an event
• Map viewing: different types of maps have been added, so you can now switch among satellite/terrain and other views
• Sending an event, with his details, via SMS

Felipe is one of the most diligent and active guys in Flash Lite community with great open source projects; such as Flyer Framework and Jarpa. Check out his post telling how he created a simple application where he extended Flash Lite with J2ME.

I’m proud to share a short application snippet of the next Jarpa Framework. Jarpa Framework wants to provide developers with the combined power of Adobe’s Flash Lite and Java’s programming capabilities.

Although I am sure he is making wonders in order to overcome OEM limitations; but apparently there are some ways. We are excitingly following these projects; and as soon as have some J2ME competency, will definitely contribute.

Great work!

Cool news! Sony Ericsson wants mobile software developers to have the best of both worlds.

Next week at JavaOne, the company plans to demonstrate its Project Capuchin, which will allow software developers to create applications for mobile phones that can use pieces of both Java ME and Adobe Systems’ Flash Lite to create their applications. The company plans to release a set of APIs (application programming interfaces) and a software development kit in the second half of this year to bring the two different mobile development styles together.

For example, Java developers could decide to use the richer user interface technology found in Flash Lite, said Ulf Wretling, general manager, head of developer program and communications for Sony Ericsson. Or maybe a developer wants to use Java’s three-dimensional graphics for a mobile game but would prefer to use Flash Lite for menus, he said.

The problem with this kind of project is that while it creates a “bridge” between the two technologies, as Wretling put it, it also pulls developers away from the current road map for both Java and Flash Lite. The difference here is that developers will still be able to create regular Java or Flash applications using this set of APIs, just mixing and matching technology from the other camp as needed.

This technology will be used on the mass-market mobile phone, not the smartphone category with more sophisticated operating systems. Sony Ericsson phones will arrive in the second half of the year with this technology, but the company plans to release the software development kit before the phones arrive.

Flash Lite and Java (JAR) packaging method made available by Felipe Andrade  and Alessandro Pace!

With Jarpa, installable Flash Lite content can finally be delivered on different platforms!

Jarpa is a free of charge software solution under terms of Apache Software License.

Its also an open-source project, they are looking for contributors to join!

Awesome!! Great work guys. We wish you luck :)

Here is a new great resource from Nokia; Forum Nokia Wiki! It will be a great information and code resource for mobile developers. There is also Flash Lite category, cool!

This Wiki is intended for the Nokia developer community, a shared library for code samples and articles.

It is hoped that the Forum Nokia Wiki will gather momentum and grow fast. In order that the project takes off, we need articles and content. Please get involved, and help to create the best mobile developer resource available.

An online seminar from actionscript.it, comparing advantages and disadvantages of Flash Lite and J2ME platforms working on a common application. Seminar is for free (no registration required) on 13th March at 19:00-21:00. No time zone is specified, but most probably it’s UTC+1 (Italy). Check related post for details.

Meeting Agenda:

- Quick introduction to Flash Lite and J2ME
- Develop a game in Flash Lite e J2ME
- How to develop a network-oriented application considering the security issues in Flash Lite and J2ME
- Workflow to follow in order to produce an useful user interface for mobile

via Leonardo