Saturday, February 09, 2008

Mobile Programming

In all fairness, this post should have been made last night but due to annoyance it wasn't. I spent Friday afternoon and evening coding prototype mobile applications with the hope that I'd be able to use my Nokia N95's built in GPS Receiver. Things were going well until I attempted to actually use the GPS...

It turns out that mobile programming is quite straight forward once you get round the annoyance of having to display everything graphically. System.out.println simply won't cut it here, we need graphics canvases and the like.

The documentation that comes with the phone isn't that great and alongside a tiny array of programming examples it would be impossible to fit the required development into the time afforded by the University so this idea has quickly found it's way into the Recycle Bin.

In other news, the project plans were handed in today.

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