Hongliang Chen’s Profile Student Toggle navigation

This course will cover how the Java language can support applications on mobile devices as cell phones, PDAs and other small computational devices. Students will learn the strengths and limitations software development on small devices. Specific topics will include configurations and profiles; overview of programming mobile devices; standard and custom user interface elements and events; record stores and persistence; drawing and animation using game APIs and 3D APIs; audio and video APIs; comparison of current technologies. At the conclusion of the course, the student will be familiar with a special set of Java classes designed to work on mobile devices and interact with multimedia files.

This course will cover how the Java language can support applications on mobile devices as cell phones, PDAs and other small computational devices. Students will learn the strengths and limitations software development on small devices. Specific topics will include configurations and profiles; overview of programming mobile devices; standard and custom user interface elements and events; record stores and persistence; drawing and animation using game APIs and 3D APIs; audio and video APIs; comparison of current technologies. At the conclusion of the course, the student will be familiar with a special set of Java classes designed to work on mobile devices and interact with multimedia files.