Developing mobile wireless applications

Author

Read, Kris ; Maurer, Frank

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. Dept., Calgary Univ., Alta., Canada

Volume

7

Issue

1

fYear

2003

Firstpage

81

Lastpage

86

Abstract

The deck-of-cards metaphor underlies nearly all content developed for mobile wireless technologies. Standard, high-level application-development technologies, which are available for most major hardware platforms, ease this development task because they are optimized for the severe restrictions on a mobile device´s screen size, processing power, and battery life. We discuss three major application-development technologies: the wireless application protocol (WAP), NTT DoCoMo´s i-mode, and Sun´s Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME). Each lets developers create content for the current and upcoming generation of mobile wireless devices.

Keywords

Java; Web sites; application program interfaces; hypermedia markup languages; mobile computing; mobile handsets; software tools; API; J2ME; Java 2 Micro Edition; NTT DoCoMo; Sun Microsystems; WAP; Web sites; XHTML; battery life; i-mode; mobile device screen size; mobile wireless application development; processing power; wireless application protocol; Bandwidth; Books; Cascading style sheets; HTML; Hardware; Message service; Space technology; Standards development; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Internet Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7801

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MIC.2003.1167345

Filename

1167345