Foreword                                                   xvii
  Preface                                                     xix
  Acknowledgments                                             xxi
  About the Author                                          xxiii
SECTION I: GETTING STARTED                                      1
 Chapter 1: Overview                                            3
  1.1 Not Plastics, but Wireless                                3
  1.2 MIDP, the Heart and Soul of Mobile Java Technology        4
  1.3 The First Umbrella: JTWI                                  5
  1.4 A Bigger Umbrella: MSA                                    6
  1.5 Understanding MSA APIs                                    7
  1.6 Looking beyond MSA 1.0                                    9
  1.7 What about JavaFX Mobile?                                10
  1.8 Summary                                                  10
 Chapter 2: Tools                                              11
  2.1 Sun Java Wireless Toolkit for CLDC: A Toaster Oven       11
  2.2 NetBeans Mobility Pack: A Gourmet Kitchen                13
  2.3 Eclipse, Too                                             13
  2.4 Inside a MIDlet Suite                                    14
  2.5 Building a MIDlet Suite                                  15
  2.6 The Command Line: A Campfire                             16
  2.7 Preprocessors                                            17
  2.8 Obfuscators                                              17
  2.9 Emulators                                                18
  2.10 Device Testing                                          18
  2.11 Summary                                                 19
 Chapter 3: Quick Start                                        21
  3.1 Make Something That Runs                                 21
  3.2 Put Something on the Screen                              22
  3.3 Give the User Something to Do                            23
  3.4 Get the Source Code Online                               25
  3.5 Summary                                                  26
 Chapter 4: Core APIs                                          27
  4.1 JVM Features You Might Miss                              28
  4.2 Strings, Primitive Types, and System Methods             28
  4.3 Threads                                                  29
  4.4 Using Streams for Input and Output                       30
  4.5 Dates, Collections, and Random Numbers                   32
  4.6 Summary                                                  33
SECTION II: THE LIVES OF MIDLETS                               35
 Chapter 5: The MIDlet Habitat                                 37
  5.1 The MIDlet Life Cycle                                    37
  5.2 Using the Browser and Making Calls                       40
  5.3 Application Properties                                   40
  5.4 Protection Domains and Signed MIDlet Suites              41
  5.5 Permissions                                              42
  5.6 The Bottom Line on MIDlet Signing                        44
  5.7 Summary                                                  45
 Chapter 6: Starting MIDlets Automatically                     47
  6.1 Responding to Network Connections                        47
  6.2 Running a MIDlet at a Specific Time                      54
  6.3 Responding to Content                                    56
  6.4 Summary                                                  66
SECTION III: USER INTERFACE                                    67
 Chapter 7: Basic User Interface                               69
  7.1 How to Show Screens                                      70
  7.2 TextBox, the Runt of the Litter                          71
  7.3 Input Modes                                              72
  7.4 Using Alerts for Notifications                           73
  7.5 A Very Quick Introduction to Images                      74
  7.6 Putting It Together                                      74
  7.7 Good for the Old Ticker                                  76
  7.8 The Whole Story on Commands                              76
  7.9 Command Placement                                        79
  7.10 Summary                                                 80
 Chapter 8: More User Interface                                81
  8.1 Lists                                                    81
  8.2 List Selections                                          83
  8.3 Handling List Events                                     83
  8.4 Three Lists in One Example                               84
  8.5 Advanced List Control                                    86
  8.6 Using Forms                                              86
  8.7 Working with Items                                       88
  8.8 Gauges                                                   89
  8.9 Controlling Item Layout                                  90
  8.10 Please Drink Form Responsibly                           92
  8.11 Item Change Events and Item Commands                    95
  8.12 Summary                                                 98
SECTION IV: GRAPHICS                                           99
 Chapter 9: Creating Custom Screens                           101
  9.1 Getting Information about the Display                   101
  9.2 How Painting Works                                      102
  9.3 Making Colors                                           102
  9.4 Drawing Lines and Shapes                                105
  9.5 Drawing Text                                            109
  9.6 Measuring Text                                          111
  9.7 Creating Images                                         114
  9.8 Drawing Images                                          116
  9.9 Keeping Resources Small                                 118
  9.10 Drawing on Images                                      119
  9.11 Getting Your Fingers on the Bits                       121
  9.12 Clipping                                               124
  9.13 Event Handling                                         124
  9.14 Controlling Command Placement                          127
  9.15 Summary                                                129
 Chapter 10: Custom Items                                     131
  10.1 Custom Item Sizing                                     131
  10.2 Painting                                               132
  10.3 A Pretty Wait Indicator                                132
  10.4 Handling Events in Custom Items                        135
  10.5 Internal Traversal                                     136
  10.6 An Interactive Example                                 137
  10.7 Summary                                                142
 Chapter 11: Using the Game API                               143
  11.1 Tight Looping with GameCanvas                          143
  11.2 Building Scenes with Layers                            148
  11.3 Tiled Layers                                           149
  11.4 Sprites                                                151
  11.5 Detecting Collisions                                   153
  11.6 Assembling a Game Scene                                153
  11.7 A Blocky Example                                       154
  11.8 Summary                                                158
 Chapter 12: Scalable Vector Graphics                         159
  12.1 The Simplest Way to Show SVG Content                   160
  12.2 Working with Animated Documents                        163
  12.3 Digging into an SVG Document                           166
  12.4 Displaying an SVG Document on Your Own Canvas          168
  12.5 Creating New SVG Elements                              171
  12.6 SVG Event Handling                                     174
  12.7 Summary                                                178
 Chapter 13: 3D Graphics                                      179
  13.1 Creating M3G Files                                     179
  13.2 Displaying 3D Content the Easy Way                     180
  13.3 Doing It the Hard Way                                  184
  13.4 Summary                                                192
SECTION V: STORAGE AND RESOURCES                              193
 Chapter 14: Record Stores                                    195
  14.1 Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Databases                     196
  14.2 Working with Record Stores                             196
  14.3 Manipulating Records                                   198
  14.4 Making Queries                                         199
  14.5 Iterating through Records                              199
  14.6 A Place to Keep Your Stuff                             200
  14.7 Summary                                                204
 Chapter 15: Reading and Writing Files                        205
  15.1 The Quick Story                                        205
  15.2 Working with Files and Directories                     206
  15.3 Somewhere, a Place for Us                              208
  15.4 Finding Pictures, Music, and Other Goodies             208
  15.5 Starting from the Top                                  209
  15.6 Ask for Permission                                     209
  15.7 An Example                                             210
  15.8 Summary                                                213
 Chapter 16: Contacts and Calendars                           215
  16.1 Understanding the PIM API                              215
  16.2 Working with Lists                                     217
  16.3 Where Do Lists Come From?                              220
  16.4 Importing and Exporting                                221
  16.5 What's Supported?                                      222
  16.6 Don't Forget Permissions                               222
  16.7 Example                                                223
  16.8 Summary                                                232
 Chapter 17: Mobile Internationalization                      233
  17.1 About Locales                                          233
  17.2 Using Resources                                        234
  17.3 Finding Resources                                      235
  17.4 Resource Inheritance                                   237
  17.5 Formatting Numbers and Dates                           237
  17.6 Sorting Strings                                        239
  17.7 Take It Out for a Spin                                 239
  17.8 Summary                                                244
SECTION VI: NETWORKING                                        245
 Chapter 18: The Generic Connection Framework                 247
  18.1 Making Connections                                     247
  18.2 Clean Up                                               249
  18.3 Use Threads                                            250
  18.4 Image Loading via HTTP                                 250
  18.5 Advanced HTTP Techniques                               252
  18.6 Tips for Success                                       253
  18.7 Using HTTPS                                            254
  18.8 Other Connection Types                                 257
  18.9 Incoming Connections                                   260
  18.10 Connection Permissions                                261
  18.11 Summary                                               261
 Chapter 19: Text and Multimedia Messaging                    263
  19.1 Why Messaging?                                         263
  19.2 Sending Messages                                       264
  19.3 Sending Binary Messages                                265
  19.4 Sending Multipart Messages                             266
  19.5 Receiving Messages                                     268
  19.6 A Simple Messaging Application                         269
  19.7 Summary                                                273
 Chapter 20: Bluetooth and OBEX                               275
  20.1 Control Your Own Bluetoothiness                        276
  20.2 Finding Other Bluetooth Devices and Services           276
  20.3 Cheap Shots                                            278
  20.4 Making a Client Connection                             278
  20.5 Setting Up a Server                                    279
  20.6 Authorization and Encryption                           280
  20.7 What about OBEX?                                       280
  20.8 Don't Forget the Push Registry                         282
  20.9 Permissions for Bluetooth and OBEX                     282
  20.10 The BlueChew Application                              283
  20.11 Summary                                               293
 Chapter 21: XML and Web Services                             295
  21.1 Parsing XML                                            296
  21.2 Creating a Handler                                     296
  21.3 Parsing RSS                                            298
  21.4 Parsing XML without JSR 172                            301
  21.5 Using WS-* Web Services                                303
  21.6 Harness the World                                      307
  21.7 A Mobile Client for Flickr                             308
  21.8 Summary                                                317
 Chapter 22: Session Initiation Protocol                      319
  22.1 Understanding SIP                                      320
  22.2 Development Tools                                      321
  22.3 Setting Up a Notifier                                  321
  22.4 Sending Requests                                       321
  22.5 Receiving SIP Requests and Sending Responses           322
  22.6 GoSIP and SIPDemo                                      323
  22.7 Summary                                                324
SECTION VII: MULTIMEDIA                                       325
 Chapter 23: Playing and Recording Sound and Video            327
  23.1 Boring Background Information                          327
  23.2 Tones                                                  329
  23.3 Using Players                                          329
  23.4 Supported Content Types                                331
  23.5 Threading and Listening                                332
  23.6 Taking Control                                         332
  23.7 Playing Sampled Audio Content                          333
  23.8 Playing Video Content                                  333
  23.9 The Tone Sequence Player                               335
  23.10 The Interactive MIDI Player                           336
  23.11 Recording Audio                                       337
  23.12 Capturing Video                                       338
  23.13 You Can't Make Everyone Happy                         338
  23.14 About MMMIDlet                                        339
  23.15 Summary                                               340
 Chapter 24: Advanced Multimedia                              341
  24.1 Image Processing                                       342
  24.2 Controlling Image Format                               344
  24.3 Music                                                  345
  24.4 3D Audio                                               345
  24.5 Audio Special Effects                                  347
  24.6 More Camera Control                                    347
  24.7 Plain Old Radio                                        348
  24.8 Summary                                                349
SECTION VIII: SECURITY AND TRANSACTIONS                       351
 Chapter 25: Smart Cards and Cryptography                     353
  25.1 Smart Cards? Really?                                   354
  25.2 Testing SATSA Applications with the Emulator           354
  25.3 Basic Smart Card Communication                         355
  25.4 Smart Card Communication with Java Card RMI            355
  25.5 Generating Signatures                                  356
  25.6 Managing Certificates                                  357
  25.7 Cryptography                                           357
  25.8 Summary                                                359
 Chapter 26: Mobile Payments                                  361
  26.1 Show Me the Money!                                     362
  26.2 Matching Applications to Payment Providers             364
  26.3 Editing Payment Provisioning Information               365
  26.4 Security and Payments                                  366
  26.5 Summary                                                366
 Chapter 27: Know Where You Are                               369
  27.1 The Short Story                                        370
  27.2 An Even Shorter Story                                  371
  27.3 Receiving Periodic Location Updates                    371
  27.4 Getting Close                                          371
  27.5 Landmark Databases                                     372
  27.6 Orientation                                            373
  27.7 Simulating Device Location                             373
  27.8 Summary                                                374
 Chapter 28: Application Architecture                         375
  28.1 Use the Strengths of Java ME                           375
  28.2 Use the Strengths of the Internet                      376
  28.3 Don't Cram the Desktop into a DJava ME Application     376
  28.4 Developing for Multiple Devices                        377
  28.5 Stretchy Screens                                       377
  28.6 Make It Just Work                                      378
  28.7 Summary                                                379
Index                                                         381