Archive for July, 2009

Coding Touchscreen Scrolling in Java ME

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Here’s the trick how you can add touchscreen scrolling to your J2ME applications. The key to touchscreen support is the Canvas class and its’ methods pointerPressed, pointerDragged and pointerReleased. These events are called when user puts finger on the screen (pressed) and drags the finger (dragged) and finally when removes the finger (released). Each method [...]

Twim with Touchscreen Support

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Here is the new version of Twim, the mobile Twitter client, now with experimental touchscreen support. I don’t own a real touchscreen phone (yet) so I had to test touchscreen functionality with emulators like Nokia N97 SDK (v1.0) and Microemulator. There were also few good people in Twitter that tested the beta version with N97 [...]

Getting Things Done – With Mobile App

Saturday, July 11th, 2009

I like to get things done. For years I’ve followed my own action management methods but recently I’m leaning towards the David Allen’s GTD method which he describes in his book Gettings Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. I have used many tools to store the actions like traditional pen and paper and several desktop [...]