Access to Media Files

[h3gg3m]

Hi,

My company are considering developing an application for our staff.
One of the functions required is to access the phones contacts, images and audio files.

We have not developed a mobile solution before and I had a few questions which I would be grateful if someone could help with:

1) What is the common o/s for nokia phones? Is this Java as Symbian doesn't seem to cover every phone.

2) We have a number of Nokia models in use by our staff. Is it possible to write one application to suit all?

3) Can you access the contacts, images and audio files on a phone through java? Is there a phone o/s api or similar?

Any help on this would be gratefullly appreciated.

Kind Regards

Heggem

[prashant332]

First of all what you have to see is the java flatform support rather then the OS. I am saying this because at present all Sybian OS nokia phones have java support ( most of them are MIDP 2.0).
If you want to access files in the phone, u must go for phone which does supports JSR-75. So MIDP 2.0 should be ur target. It is present in few models of S60 and S40 devices. Just look for the devices with JSR-75 support.

[h3gg3m]

Thanks Prashant, so what you are saying is that it is possible but not across all phones. We also need to provide this for Samsung, LG and Motorola Phones.

I presume that we would have to develop solutions for batches of phones and not just one Java application for all.

[prashant332]

Yes. U r right certainly, u can not have an 'one solution fits all' kind of application. The API implementation would be different across different devices, especially with different brands. So u can think of different applications for different sets of devices.

[peterblazejewicz]

hi Heggem,

cute IDE should let your developer fight with that fragmentation problem:
http://www.netbeans.org/kb/50/preprocessor-syntax.html
http://www.netbeans.org/kb/articles/...tation-40.html
https://communications.sun.com/dialo...o?eventId=5900
http://www.devx.com/wireless/Article/29449


regards,
peter

[h3gg3m]

Thank you both for your help.