coding to the most common platform

Nokia is the world's largest cellphone maker. While it is being strongly challenged, especially in China, it should still be the first platform for cellphone developers to target. This book explains how within broad parameters, Nokia has opened out its models for developers. It has chosen to use a mobile version of Java. The book shows how to use this and MIDP to develop your application (which is probably a game).

One of the authors, Yuan, wrote a book on J2ME recently, and you may perhaps consider this Nokia book as somewhat of a sequel.

If you're already facile in regular Java, transitioning to this book should be easy. Perhaps the biggest change is the dumping of the Swing and AWT widgets. Simply too heavy for the resources of a small screen and limited power. Hence, graphics-wise, you may find coding rather constraining. But that's the reality of any cellphone.

Another difference shown by the book is that there is now often an emphasis on audio and video capture and playing. At least, as compared to standard desktop applications.

The authors and Nokia have produced a very cleanly laid out and logical presentation.

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