MIDP 2.0 Style Guide for the JavaaA A 2 Platform, Micro Edition, is the comprehensive reference for designing and creating interactive JavaaA A applications for consumer-oriented mobile devices. Readers learn how to best exploit MIDP 2.0 features, such as the gaming API, multimedia, and security for user-friendly MIDlets. Readers who create MIDP environments (MIDP implementors) also learn how to best support developers and users. This book begins by introducing readers to the unique requirements of the consumer market and to the characteristics of MIDs and the MIDP 2.0 environment. Readers have a first look at the process of designing applications for MIDP in general terms before examining the nuts and bolts of creating usable, predictable applications. The authors provide user interface designers, application developers, and MIDP implementers with clearly illustrated standards for working with screen layouts, lists, text boxes, forms, alerts, canvas screens, and game screens. Visual examples demonstrate both what does and what does not work. The book ends with the authors' strategies for improving usability, security, and performance.Key topic coverage includes: *designing applications for MIDP *working with and displaying lists, text boxes, and alerts *working with and laying out forms and form items *creating and implementing canvases *using the new game package *using and implementing abstract commands *integrating MIDP and MIDlet suites into a device *using push functionality *understanding the MIDP 2. 0 security model *using touch input *enhancing performance and using multiple threads MIDP 2.0 Style Guide for the JavaaA A 2 Platform, Micro Edition, is the insider's guide to creating applications and devices that create consumer demand. 0321198018B05302003

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Cindy Bloch writes technical documentation for Sun Microsystems' Java Software division. Previously, she worked as a senior software engineer at Carnegie Group Incorporated and as a senior technical trainer at Transarc Corporation.

Annette Wagner is the human interface lead for the Java 2 MicroEdition Platform in the Java Software division of Sun Microsystems, Inc. She has more than 20 years of experience in the user interface arena, and for the last several years has been designing and building the Java technologies used in cell phones, two-way pagers, personal digital assistants, screen phones, and televisions.

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