There were 14 demos at last night’s MoMo London. Here are some of my thoughts from the evening…

I was surprised with the breadth of platforms being supported rather than everything being just iPhone-centric. Each company had their own reasons for choosing their particular platform (or platforms).
I observed that companies seem to be mainly developing for […]

A very recent Admob publisher survey shows some interesting trends…

The report also shows that the majority of Admob’s surveyed publishers are developing for either Android and/or iPhone. BlackBerry, WebOS, Symbian, Windows Mobile and Java ME are currently much less popular. Also, more developers are now making money by using in-app advertising rather than selling their […]

At the beginning of February I took a quick look at the future of Java ME under Oracle.
Jaxenter has an informative article on Oracle’s "Write Once, Run Anywhere" strategy.Some interesting observations from the article…
"Sun has prevented the adoption of Java SE on a large scale within the mobile phone market with its Field of Use […]

In 2007, I observed that most of the few non-game Java ME applications that had become successful, performed most of their processing at the server. Last year I wrote about WebView applications and commented on how useful these are for some types of application.
WebView applications are just a web site embedded inside an application. It’s […]

I have been looking into what’s planned for Java ME now that, as of the end of January 2010, Oracle now owns Sun. The webcast on Java shows a summary:
 
This shows that it will be ‘business as usual’ for Java ME.
Oracle have also announced they will be unifying Java ME […]

With all the hype over smartphones, iPhone and Android, mobile developers might be interested to know that I still get many leads for Java ME. Why? Well, I think this is mainly because it’s still the platform that will give the largest reach. Looking at the projects coming in, companies are considering Java ME for […]

Yesterday, a non-work friend asked me why there isn’t one programming language that covers all phones. They thought that it would have been in everyone’s interest to have a standard way of programming phones.
I explained how phone OEM and network operator selfish self-interest has resulted in the situation where each has tried to differentiate their […]