Talk:How to use SoftNotification API in Java ME
Featured article, September 27th 2009 (week 40)
27 Sep
2009
This is well-mannered article for providing high level introduction on Softnotification API in Java ME. Softnotification provides the facilities for users to access the various events in their absence. These events are displayed in devices home screen.
Before studying this article, you need to know complete list of Java API and its various features. This article explains EggTimer MIDlet, which analyzes the use of Softnotification. The author has described the Timernotification class which contains the main MIDlet class EGGTimer.java and KeypadCanvas class.
In the article, the author has clarified two different way for displaying Softnotification appearances. In the article, the author has provided the new softnotification API classes and its interface with details. The author has also illustrated sample of code about how a softnotification is created. In the article, the scrrenshots are also provided for user's understanding.
This is a valuable article for providing information regarding softnotification API in Java ME for beginners as well as developers.
28 Sep
2009
This article is a high level article. This article shows a great use of softNotification API. As we know that nowadays every phone provides Birthday Alarm. Like this this application is used to provide soft notifications to the user either in their absence or in their presence. This midlet implements softNotificationListener interface so it has to define methods those are declared by softNotificationListener interface. Such for example notificationSelected(), notificationDisplayed() etc..
For alerting, timer classes are used (i.e. TimerNotification Class). This article also describes about what is Soft Notification and types of it. It is also explained with two snapshots and from the second snapshot, every body can easily understand what is it trying to mean.
When any notification is occurred, it shows to user via pop ups.Nice effort and real time application.
