Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.4 / 5.0

Solid giudelines for development for the really small screen:

The move from the full screen of the desktop to the significantly reduced screen of a handheld is similar to the re-formatting of a movie made to be viewed in a theater to one presented on a television. However, beyond the problems of reducing the size, there are vast differences. Movie and television screens engage in one way interaction with the viewer, and the effective use of handheld devices necessitates that the viewer be able to discern every detail and interact with the screen.
The problems of... more info

Designing usable MIDlets starts here...:

As a MIDP 1.0 developer and member of the MIDP 2.0 Expert Group I was very concerned about how many of the complex aspects of MIDP 2.0 would be communicated to developers new to the platform. I was delighted to find that the MIDP 2.0 Style Guide does a fantastic job of covering both the technical (implementation) aspects of MIDP 2.0 as well as the super important usability aspects of small devices.

This is not a book for learning how to use the MIDP API's from Java, for that I suggest looking at... more info

MIDP 2.0 Style Guide for J2ME:

This is one of a class of books that every application developer should
read, and that not enough do. It provides cheap access to knowledge that is
expensive to obtain. The title is almost a misnomer; Call it a Usability
Guide and give a better idea of it's usefulness.

MIDP 2.0 is the latest version of the most common J2ME Profile. It's a
fairly new specification. Nokia, for example, have only announced support for
this on their Series 60 devices in the last couple of months and I'm not... more info

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