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MIDP 2.0 Style Guide for the Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition
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Cynthia Bloch, Annette Wagner
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Addison-Wesley Professional
1 edition
June 2003
288 pages
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Reviewed by Thomas Paul, July 2003
        (8 of 10)
If you are designing Java programs to run on cell phones or PDAs then you will want to keep this style guide nearby. This will not teach you how to code but it will teach you how to design your MIDlets so that they will be usable. You will find lots of samples of good design and bad design plus plenty of recommendations to help you to write usable MIDlets.
The book starts with some basic guidelines (make your code simple, predictable, and efficient) and a description of the minimum MIDP hardware (tiny screen, limited input, two colors, and little memory). The authors then get into the main focus of the book, designing MIDlets. Starting with screen layouts, they take us through the different items you can place on a screen such as lists, text fields, forms, commands, etc. The focus is not on how to code but on how to make these items usable. The book also covers issues such as push, security, and touch input from the usability point of view.
There is no doubt that this book will be the standard for designing programs for MIDP devices. This book can help you avoid a lot of simple (and not so simple) mistakes that you may not notice until you get to usability testing. You could write your MIDlets without this book but why not save yourself some headaches.
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