Study of Tools & Utilities in Mobile Application

1. Study of Tools & Utilities in Mobile Application By Kunal Bele kbele/cs525

2. Outline of the Talk • About Mobile Application • Application Platform • IDE’s mostly used for the applications • Available Java Tools for different Mobile Application • A Simple Mobile Application I carried out. kbele/cs525

3. About Mobile Application • Mobile Applications :: Applications developed for small devices like pagers, mobile phones and TV set-top boxes. • Will be focusing on java-based applications for mobile phones. kbele/cs525

4. Java ME(J2ME) Platform • Provides a collection of Java APIs for the development of applications for small devices such as cell phones, PDA’s and set-top boxes. • Open Source • Provides portability of applications kbele/cs525

5. IDE’s used for Mobile Applications • Netbeans Mobility Pack - Offers visual design of application flow with drag-and-drop creation of application UI - Just need to add application logic to an automatically generated Java code • EclipseME - Provides with set of tools for creating, testing and packaging MIDlets kbele/cs525

6. Java Tools for Mobile Application • JMail :: - Used to send and retrieve e-mail from the web site without a mail program or a mail server such as Eudora, Exchange or Outlook. -Can be used by developers to send e-mail from their ASP code or Windows program. - Also has encryption and advanced mass-mailing features. • JMailServer :: - Used to build the web based email service. - Easy Plug and Mail installation - An extensive administrative GUI, to an ability to offer the customers to set up an alias from their private email account to their system, when in need of a web interface. kbele/cs525

7. Java Tools for Mobile Application • Java SMS Library :: - A multi purpose library that sends sms, images, mms and ringtones over TCP/IP, modem or direct cable connection to a GSM phone. • mpowerplayer :: - Is a MIDP (Mobile Information Device Profile) runtime written in pure Java. - Is as an appletviewer for MIDlets. - Used for the mobile gaming applications. kbele/cs525

8. Java Tools for Mobile Application • jSMS :: - A Java API sending and receiving SMS, MMS and ringtones. - Supports wide range of communication protocols - Supports Nokia’s SmartMessaging Specification • Reqwireless WebViewer :: - A Web browser for J2ME MIDP devices. - Supports HTML along with GIF and JPEG images - It’s size is 48K as a JAR file - Supports the following features:* HTML, including forms and image maps* GIF, JPEG, PNG, and BMP images* HTTP, FTP* HTTP cookies* HTTPS (if supported by the device)* Bookmarks kbele/cs525

9. Java Tools for Mobile Application iBus//Mobile - JMS solution for mobile devices - Connects J2ME applications on mobile devices straight-through to the J2EE application server. - The communication models are end-to-end JMS message queuing, publish/subscribe, and request/response. PointBase Micro :: - A very small (45KB) RDBMS based on the J2ME and J2SE architectures. - Operates on the JDBC API and the SQL. - Provides a pure Java database for app’s running on a range of Internet appliances and smart devices. kbele/cs525

10. A Simple Application kbele/cs525

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14. References • http://wireless.java.sun.com • http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/41/relnotes-mobility.html • http://eclipseme.org/ • http://www.dimac.net/ • http://javasmslib.sourceforge.net/ • http://www.mpowerplayer.com/ • http://www.objectxp.com/en/products/jsms/ • http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/3490.html • http://www.softwired-inc.com/ • http://www.pointbase.com/products/micro.aspx kbele/cs525