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Java ME GUI Library Update
In the last few weeks we have been very pleasantly surprised by the amount of questions and interest we have received about our Java ME GUI library so I thought I would provide a status update about where we currently stand with this project.
At the moment our goal is too spend the next few months working solidly on client work in order to make enough money to spend July and August working full time on our own projects. In those 2 months we should be able to make the library significantly more professional and also remove any dependencies we currently have on 3rd party build tools (we plan to write our own simple pre-processing component). The goal is to make it *very* easy to import and use our library in both Eclipse and Netbeans.
In terms of actually using the library in code, anyone familiar with the Java Swing API will have no problems what-so-ever. We have tried really hard to make our API resemble Swing as closely as possible so developers will feel very comfortable when using it.
The biggest fault in the existing version of the library was soft key mapping across different device ranges. This has already been substantially improved and we hope to support many more input modes in the next version (including unconventional keyboards like Blackberry and UIQ devices). We have also already added in a few more graphical components and we hope to add in some interesting animations, effects and transitions.
In terms of licensing we are still a little unsure about how we are going to approach this. We are probably going to go for a simple per application licence fee. This will be a reasonable amount in comparison to typical Java ME project costs and will be a one off payment, so no ongoing concerns. In the spirit of the GUI itself we want to make life easy so the licensing terms will be very simple and straight forward. In terms of the amount of hours saved this will make the library *very* cheap.
Click through below to see more screen shots.
Image affect done with Lightbox by Lokesh Dhakar.
Java ME GUI Library product page
In the last few weeks we have been very pleasantly surprised by the amount of questions and interest we have received about our Java ME GUI library so I thought I would provide a status update about where we currently stand with this project.
At the moment our goal is too spend the next few months working solidly on client work in order to make enough money to spend July and August working full time on our own projects. In those 2 months we should be able to make the library significantly more professional and also remove any dependencies we currently have on 3rd party build tools (we plan to write our own simple pre-processing component). The goal is to make it *very* easy to import and use our library in both Eclipse and Netbeans.
In terms of actually using the library in code, anyone familiar with the Java Swing API will have no problems what-so-ever. We have tried really hard to make our API resemble Swing as closely as possible so developers will feel very comfortable when using it.
The biggest fault in the existing version of the library was soft key mapping across different device ranges. This has already been substantially improved and we hope to support many more input modes in the next version (including unconventional keyboards like Blackberry and UIQ devices). We have also already added in a few more graphical components and we hope to add in some interesting animations, effects and transitions.
In terms of licensing we are still a little unsure about how we are going to approach this. We are probably going to go for a simple per application licence fee. This will be a reasonable amount in comparison to typical Java ME project costs and will be a one off payment, so no ongoing concerns. In the spirit of the GUI itself we want to make life easy so the licensing terms will be very simple and straight forward. In terms of the amount of hours saved this will make the library *very* cheap.
Click through below to see more screen shots.
Image affect done with Lightbox by Lokesh Dhakar.
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Looks great! Do you have a new build of the GUI library demo application available? (The "old" version failed to run on my BlackBerry)
Thanks for the great comment. Unfortunately we haven't got a new version ready for download at the moment and probably won't for a while. (We also don't even own a Blackberry but it is high up on the shopping list after the strong demand.) Due to client commitments a new beta version will probably only become avaliable in the Summer. Apologies for the delay but we got to pay the bills. :)
As I recall, the RIM SDK, freely available for download, emulates the hardware very accurately, so it may be worth trying before shelling out for an actual device.
Thanks Kevin, we will check it out when we have some time.