Anybody here trying to make programs for cell phones ? I am trying to lean to program my cell phone ( Nokia 5130 express music ) , I learn my cell phone use Java ME , ( MIDP -- CLDC - try the Hello World example on my phone ) and I am using Netbeans IDE. I found it is more difficult to make / code programs in JAVA ME, and I trying to learn JAVA also. I find Arduino more easy to learn than Java ME. I did a code in C++ ( no WIN app, just a console app ) to generated a set of random numbers to help selecting lotery numbers. A bit like "a quick pick". I am planning/trying to do the same for my cell phone. NOT EASY....
FYI sometime ago the Processing community (Java based) launched a mobile Processing, which you can use to create Java-based cell phones. I tried it a couple times but you know the Java-based phones are not very fancy and I happened to have just a moto-razor so I only made a few buttons and printed out a few numbers. Processing is easier than using netbeans.
Sorry guys that I was not on-line for a while, I was busy trying to program my cell phone. And I DID IT !!! I program a Lotery Number Generator. It simply generated a set of random numbers ( kind of a "quick pick"). My app work ( on my cell phone Nokia 5130 Express Music ), I use Netbeans 7 and program it in Java Me. I try the Processing Mobile, unfortunaly, it did not work. A error message saying about the path of the Java Me compiler. So I stick with Netbeans.
Anyway, I learn a lot. I learn some Java and Java Me. Buying books about it help a lot. It will help my programing skills.
Glad you took a first step towards programming a phone. I am expecting the next big thing, programming an android phone/tablet and control an arduino with it.
Glad you took a first step towards programming a phone. I am expecting the next big thing, programming an android phone/tablet and control an arduino with it.
Yep...that if I can afford a Android phone. It was interresting to program my phone using Java Me. I am assuming to control an Arduino using Android probably using libraries, I will be looking into it,and I wonder if it possible ... my phone to control an Aduino...just curious.
If your phone has a bluetooth link and you can use it, ...
Yes, my phone does has a bluetooth setting...( I bet it is connect to the USB port - I read about Android & Arduino ) I just visit my cell phone manufacturer http://www.nokia.ca to check my phone ( 5130 ) if I can connect a bluetooth device... Answer : yes and after choose the "developper" link to check my phone ( 5130 ) feature "datasheet" to program it.... It possible to program a bluetooth device ( I hope - I will learn it ) , and try to send/received data from/to a bluetooth device. I just need to buy the bluetooth device from a Rogers store ( where they sell my phone - I have a Pay-has-you-Go ) for my phone. Next step, buy a Bluetooth shield for the Arduino - that I don't know where to buy that shield and how to program it. I will learn it.
Thank for the link. That will take care of the hardware side of the Arduino. ( Still looking the software side of the Arduino ).
About the requirement to program a( mine ) cell phone using a bluethooth to communicate with the Arduino, You need the API - JSR 82 - the bluetooth library. I just download it, try to install it ( that part I having a hard time to learn how to install a API to Netbeans 7 ) and I download my cell phone emulator ( from Nokia Develloper ) my phone data : http://www.developer.nokia.com/Devices/Device_specifications/5130_XpressMusic/.
I just found the bluetooth on my phone. My next step is to buy the shield and blutooth , program the Arduino and my cell phone and try to communicated with each others.
What about the others members... to use their cell phone ( with bluetooth ) to send/receive data from/to an Arduino... You don't need an Android phone... ( even if you do ) you still need to get the API JSR 82, an IDE to program your cell phone ( Netbeans is OK ) and learning JAVA ME. Next, to install to your phone is easy. Just "past" the file *.JAR and *.JAD from the IDE projects directory and "copy" them into your cell phone files directory. Yep.. THAT easy... But programing JAVA ME is not easy...
Here a "Barebones" Java Me code.
/*
* To change this template, choose Tools | Templates
* and open the template in the editor.
*/
package thebarebone;
import javax.microedition.lcdui.*; // <-- The Display "Library"
import javax.microedition.midlet.*;
import javax.bluetooth.*; // <--- The bluetooth "library"
/**
* @author Serge J Desjardins
*/
public class BareboneMidlet extends MIDlet implements CommandListener
{
private Display thedisplay; // <-- To display the form
private Form theform; // <-- You need a form to show the data
private Command exitcmd; // <--you need to exit the apps
public void startApp()
{
theform = new Form("The Bare Bone Display");
thedisplay = Display.getDisplay(this);
thedisplay.setCurrent(theform);
exitcmd = new Command("EXIT / SORTIE", Command.EXIT,0);
theform.addCommand(exitcmd);
theform.setCommandListener(this);
}
public void commandAction(Command c, Displayable d)
{
notifyDestroyed();
}
public void pauseApp() {
}
public void destroyApp(boolean unconditional) {
}
}
