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Nokia N93 Application Development for Mere Mortals
kevin_s2f | 22 May, 2007 20:59
- I’ve enjoyed reading some of Gabor’s posts about agile development. His thoughts on planning ahead and his web site’s focus on incremental development based on feature value makes sense. I look forward to his additional thoughts.
- I have Paul’s book on order. I like the way Paul and his students seem to strike a good balance between rapid development and rich feature sets. These two qualities came together well when his initial space/time blogging prototype implemented with Python was further developed into LocoBlog, written in Java, but still focused on studying how people would use such a service.
- The Carbide team has worked hard to shield developers from some of the difficulties of working with Symbian C++. I don’t know if I’ll do the whole project in C++, but if it wasn’t for the Carbide.c++ UI Designer, I wouldn’t even be attempting this.
- Ron and all the contributors to the Discussion Boards have completely transformed that service over the last year or so. Again, without that resource I don’t know that I’d attempt this project.
- Short list the features to develop first (I think I know what they are)
- Begin evaluating which Nokia platform technologies to use to deliver the features (there are some trade-offs I don’t yet understand)
- and what tooling I need to make this all possible (If the answer to 2 =/ C++ I have no idea yet)
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Re: Nokia N93 Application Development for Mere Mortals
kevin_s2f | 23/05/2007, 17:08
Paul,Thanks for the insight. I plan to check out JME, but partly based on my experience with LocoBlog I am skeptical that it will serve the needs of TMJ. In LocoBlog on my N93, when it presents the user with the opportunity to take a pic, normal N93 image controls like zoom and macro are not available. I need both of these for TMJ. Do you know if there is a way in JME to enable these camera controls?
--kevin
Re: Nokia N93 Application Development for Mere Mortals
coultonp | 23/05/2007, 17:39
KevinThe current camera controls dont allow for zoom and macro. There is a new multimedia JSR but I am not sure if that allows this control. Further, as its only just out its not a very practical solution as yet. If you want to add these elements then S60 is the way to go but its going to be a lot more coding effort
Re: Nokia N93 Application Development for Mere Mortals
kevin_s2f | 23/05/2007, 18:18
That's the trade-off I figured I was up against. Thanks.
Re: Nokia N93 Application Development for Mere Mortals
hartti | 23/05/2007, 19:40
Ahh, yes. Paul is speaking about Advanced Multimedia Supplements, AMMS API or JSR-234http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=234
This API contains a number of optional packages, and some of those allow you to control the camera more than what JSR-135 allows you to do. (focus, zoom, exposure, etc - check the Package javax.microedition.amms.control.camera)
Even though the N95 supports AMMS API, the camera controls have not been implemented on 3rd Edition FP1 platform - only Music and 3D Audio, as noted in the Java ME Developer's guide, and in the AMMS implementation notes
http://www.forum.nokia.com/document/Java_ME_Developers_Library/
Hartti
Re: Nokia N93 Application Development for Mere Mortals
coultonp | 23/05/2007, 11:15
I think your list is a good way for approaching the project and personally I think its best not to choose a platform until thats clear. However, looking at your spec my inclination would be to go for J2ME as I think development time would be quicker and more straightforward
For me with mobile the users experience is paramount and even for projects like LocoBlog we have learnt a great deal and indeed the new N95 version has an even simpler interface and new features, such as storing entries for later up-load ,which we thought about originally but the user experience brought home. So for me I always recommend start with the UI in terms of actions required and in this case how entries will be created and stored and what are the actual inputs required by the user.
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