Tuesday, December 11

Porting to different platforms


Mobile fragmentation has led to difficulties when it comes to porting an application across platforms. We are not talking about 3 or 5 platforms, but rather up to hundreds of different phone platforms/families with different capabilities!

Whats worse, J2ME itself has internal fragmentation too!

Some links:

  • MoSync - Write in C/C++, compile for all! Includes WM, Symbian, J2ME, etc... Need to verify how good it is though.
  • Metismo - Abstraction layer for J2ME

2 comments:

Justin said...

I hope to see one day when you buy the phone hardware and the phone OS separately and are able to install any variant of phone OS on any modern phone hardware. That would be just like our PC and wouldn't it be cool?

JustDevil said...

Yes that would be cool, from a tech savvy person point of view. But do you realize that mobile phones are even more widely used than PC, because anyone can unpack from the box and use it immediately? My point is, simplicity is cool too (: