Got my spare time assigned.... (J2ME)
So, I allowed myself to be dragged (kicking and screaming? no, not really) into a small but hopefully useful project. It will take a couple of weeks, I hope, to make mobile version of "Word Matching Game" available to users of site of my good friend.
Initially, I sketched out a full-blown app, with the following online features:
- account registration
- lesson selection
- statistics management
(Small rant: how I wish J2ME integrated better with native browser on a phone. All of that could be much more easily delivered by a small set of xHTML pages instead... Oh well.)
But it became obvious that number of states and screens in such a small app grows disproportionately fast. I decided to approach the probem by simply wrapping the content in a simpler game version. This one will be "disposable" in the sense that for next selection of pair of languages and set of words, user will have to download a new game. Luckily, the size of compiled and obfuscated Java code is really small this way, so hopefully this will be a small inconvenience.
There will be other issues that I will have to tackle for the first time, namely, application delivery. I haven't looked around for free methods of doing so, yet. Short URL service? Sending SMS from server? Those all would be quite nice to have... We'll se how it goes.
Initially, I sketched out a full-blown app, with the following online features:
- account registration
- lesson selection
- statistics management
(Small rant: how I wish J2ME integrated better with native browser on a phone. All of that could be much more easily delivered by a small set of xHTML pages instead... Oh well.)
But it became obvious that number of states and screens in such a small app grows disproportionately fast. I decided to approach the probem by simply wrapping the content in a simpler game version. This one will be "disposable" in the sense that for next selection of pair of languages and set of words, user will have to download a new game. Luckily, the size of compiled and obfuscated Java code is really small this way, so hopefully this will be a small inconvenience.
There will be other issues that I will have to tackle for the first time, namely, application delivery. I haven't looked around for free methods of doing so, yet. Short URL service? Sending SMS from server? Those all would be quite nice to have... We'll se how it goes.
posted by denka at 4:14 PM
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I should mention that such speedy prototyping (2 evenings after work) would not have been possible without NetBeans 5 and its Mobility Pack. I probably have lost some productivity due to myself having to reboot into Solaris where I develop server-side part of the solution. Hope Mobility tools get ported to Solaris soon. After all, Mobility pack is already available for Linux, what's up with that?!
Hehe, can you imagine how I am happy that Internet Polyglot's force of gravity has grown to the extent of grabbing such an independent flying by comet.
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