Programming Wireless Devices with the Java 2 Platform

In light of the wide variations in cellular phones and other MIDP target devices, the requirements for user interface support are very challenging. MIDP target...

The differences between mobile devices and desktop computers are evident when comparing the designs of the MIDP lcdui with the Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT) of...

The following sections provide an overview to the MIDP user interface API (javax.microedition.lcdui). The remainder of this chapter and the following two chapters concentrate on...

The class is the central controller of the display of a MIDP application. An application gets a instance by calling the static method...

Displayable objects are the views in which the application interaction takes place. Application-defined operations in Displayable objects are implemented using Commands. The device implementation provides...

Abstract are the operations that the applications add to the user interface. can be added to all Displayables, so they are part of...

The following sections present more advanced topics related to the MIDP user interface libraries. 8.System Screens Typically, the current screen of the foreground MIDlet is visible on...

We have marked a number of topics in this chapter as New! with an icon in the book margin. The user interface capabilities of the...