[Novalug] o/t: anyone write any phone applications?

[Mark Smith]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 07:47:15AM -0400, Keith Casey wrote:
> On 10/1/07, Mark Smith <mark at winksmith.com> wrote:
> > i was thinking about writing an application for my phone.  it's
> > certainly not a linux phone.  i'm not willing to lay out big $$
> > for the right environment.  has anyone ever done similar?
> 
> Eek, good luck on that one.
> 
> Does it have to live on the phone?  Unless you need some specific
> hardware or integration with on of the apps, why not go the web
> route*?  You get the benefit of not having a custom app for one
> particular phone and have the potential for using it on future phones
> and for others... otherwise the version differences and difficulties
> are a huge pita.

connections via my cell can be expensive.  writing an application
on the phone just seemed like an interesting way to pass some time.
i've never done it so it seemed like something interested to do.

i have a nokia series-S40 java engine on it so applications can
certainly be downloaded and run.  after some more exploration, it
seems that nokia provides an SDK free of charge, but it runs on
windows only.

my only guess now is to use an emulator, but the ones i've seen
seem to require that i buy a windows license to load under the
emulator.  that just won't work.

-- 
Mark Smith
mark at winksmith.com
mark at tux.org