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MTC Provide this ways to development mobile
application:
Java ME
Ideal for a portable solution, if the Java ME platform provides the
needed functionality. Good for vertical applications that must be
portable. Device-specific libraries exist for many devices and are
commonly used for games, making them non-portable. Applications
(including their data) cannot be larger than around 1 MB if they are
to run on most phones. They must also be cryptographically signed in
order to effectively use many APIs such as the filesystem access
API. This is relatively expensive and is rarely done, even for
commercial applications.
Symbian platform
Very powerful for general purpose development. Designed from the
start for mobile devices, the Symbian platform is a real time,
multi-tasking OS specifically architected to run well on
resource-constrained systems, maximising performance and battery
life whilst minimising memory usage. The Symbian Foundation
maintains the code for the open source software platform based on
Symbian OS and software assets contributed by Nokia, NTT DOCOMO, and
Sony Ericsson, including the S60 and MOAP(S) user interfaces. The
platform is fully open source, mostly supplied under the Eclipse
Public License. Over 300 million Symbian OS-based units have been
shipped and Symbian holds more than a 50% market share globally.
Android
Recently announced by the Open Handset Alliance, whose 34 members
include Google, HTC, Motorola, Qualcomm, and T-Mobile, Android is a
new Linux-based platform. Although it has only 2 fielded
implementations, its support by 34 major software, hardware and
telecoms companies makes it likely that the pace of adoption will
increase. The Linux kernel is used as a hardware abstraction layer
(HAL). Application programming is exclusively done in Java. You need
the Android specific Java SDK. Besides the Android Java Libraries it
is possible to use normal Java IDEs.
BlackBerry
Supports push e-mail, mobile telephone, text messaging, internet
faxing, web browsing and other wireless information services as well
as a multi-touch interface. It has a built-in QWERTY keyboard,
optimized for "thumbing", the use of only the thumbs to type. The
BlackBerry devices soon took a dominating position on the
north-American smartphone market. Also important for BlackBerry are
the BES (Black Berry Enterprise Server) and the Mobile Data System (BlackBerry
MDS).
iPhone OS
The iPhone and iPod Touch SDK uses Objective C, based on the C
programming language. Currently, is only available on Mac OS X 10.5
and is the only way to write an iPhone application. All applications
must be cleared by Apple before being hosted on the AppStore, the
sole distribution channel for iPhone and iPod touch applications.
However, non-Apple approved applications can be released to
jailbroken iPhones via Cydia or Installer.
.NET Compact Framework
Ideal for deployment on Pocket PC/Windows Mobile devices. While
primarily still limited to Microsoft Windows Mobile devices, it is
now being extended to Android devices as well via Mono. There have
also been discussions about extending Mono to other mobile
platforms, but nothing has happened to date.
Windows Mobile
Ideal for enterprise applications with an existing PC infrastructure
and options for significant development investment. However not
cross platform and limited to Microsoft devices.
Flash Lite
Ideal for Graphics-heavy options with a market that can support the
Flash Lite player.
Microbrowser
Ideal for lightweight functionality, a web-interface for an existing
application with no latency concerns, or a widely varying platform
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