Latest & Greatest In The LWUIT Featured Apps Gallery

This sort of blog post is somewhat of a chore for a technical guy like myself so I tend to postpone it until the flood takes ages to clear... On the other hand, its one of the most satisfying types of posts because its about you and how you are using LWUIT in amazing and imaginative ways.

Lots of the readers of this blog don't check out the LWUIT featured apps gallery as frequently as they probably should (or ever?), so as a service to these readers here are some of the latest things LWUIT 3rd party developers have been up to. Lots of apps out there aren't in the gallery which is a shame, please take the time to submit a writeup and screenshots to lwuit at sun.com.

First up is Drum Boxw which is a pattern based drum sequencer with over 40 drum instruments to choose from. Works on most recent Nokia and Sony Ericson handsets. Edit patterns, string them together into a song, and export it as a MIDI file to play as a ringtone, or to import into a desktop music package.


I'm not a fan of Twitter in general but if I would ever set up an account it would be to use Tvider. The demo for recording and immediately twitting videos/audios directly from the mobile phone is definitely an impressive & effective demo of what Java can do today.
The application is very refined and visually appealing.



Minute Training supports classic training with weight/reps and time-based training, it provides some effective tools for monitoring your progress such as visualization graphs as pictured.


Handy Safe for mobile phones is the perfect assistant for secure and convenient data management. Keep your mind free from countless numbers and letters. Have all of your important information in one place, safe, easy to access, and always with you with Handy Safe for mobile phones. Get instant access to all of your important information wherever you go!



With the Parking Tracker you never forget where you parked your car. To save the parking position you simply press a button.Later when you want to find your car again you press another button. Then the location of the car is displayed on a map as well as your own location.With this you can find your car again - anytime, anywhere!Optionally you can also enter notes, the number of the parking lot and an alarm for the expiration of your parking tickets. The application will also help to avoid fines.The Parking Tracker: easy to use and on your smartphone wherever you go.

NearPeople, provides you with details on people in your vicinity. It scans for devices using bluetooth and provides the data about people in the area. The application is multi-lingual with support for: English, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, Hindi and Italian.




Itiner is a free application providing users with traveller's information on mobile phones.Thanks to the effective data compression, the application displays public transportation timetables without the need for Internet connection (off-line).Cooperating with the bus or tram tracking system in a city, it can provide information about real waiting times for a given line (on-line).

The SwiftCapture is a system that enables users to draft a set of questions on a server and then download them to a phone for data capture - including taking pictures! We support many different types of phones including Blackberry. The system is used by a number of companies in the UK/Europe including Red Bull, Krispy Kreme and GFK.

The Islamic App developed 3 applications using LWUIT and tested them in several Java ME enabled devices (touch screen or not) and on Blackberrys. AlMuathen to give muslims prayer times. AlHijri to convert Gregorian date to Hijri and vice versa. AlMoumi to display the islamic 100 names of god.


Device Magic a mobile software company developed an application that connects to the fairly widely deployed OpenMRS (Open Medical Record System) server providing tracking and management of patiend details and medical records.

SMSCrypt is a mobile phone application that allows you to send and receive encrypted text messages. Most users aren't quite aware at how insecure plain old SMS messages are, SMS crypt solves this issue by adding privacy features to these common interactions.

Longtime LWUIT developer Mike has a couple of new applications just making their way into the gallery. A Video Poker for the Instinct family it h as 4 variations of Video Poker - Jacks or Better, Double Double Bonus, Deuces Wild, and Loose Deuces
For more info: http://instinct-software.com/2010/02/video-poker/


The second application from Mike is Voice+ which is a Voice Recorder for the Instinct family of phones, for more info: http://instinct-software.com/2010/02/voice-recorder/

HTML Component Writeup In Ofir's Blog

Ofir has written a very detailed blog post about the new HTML component in LWUIT which you should probably check directly from him. He also wrote a very cool application making use of this component to browse parties in the MWC event! You can see a video of this application in action on the right side.

The HTML component in LWUIT is one of the most sought out features in LWUIT since day one. It required tremendous amount of work from Ofir which is still ongoing and the component still has allot of work pending. However, we do want something to be 100% clear: this is not, nor will it ever be a "browser in LWUIT". Opera, Bolt and other mobile browsers are usually implemented either with a native component or with a server component. The LWUIT HTML component is designed for very specific use cases that don't necessarily require a server component. So keep your expectations in place and don't expect the HTML component to render everything you throw at it since it isn't designed with that purpose in mind.

The HTML component is an example of a trend we have for quite some time of building composite components, that is assembling a component from multiple simpler components rather than implementing a component using graphics.

LWUIT Running On The HTC HD2 Device

The thing that the video can't really convey is just how smooth the device feels to the touch, its fast and responds immediately just like you would expect from such a device and from LWUIT.

Musix To Our Ears

The Israeli operator Pelephone has been offering the Musix music service developed by TriPlay for a while now. The service is essentially an OTA "all you can eat" music store for roughly 5 USD per month, you can listen to all your music over the web or through your mobile phone and download everything to your device.

After developing the initial application with all the effort involved TriPlay in collaboration with majimob, shifted the entire application code base to LWUIT thus gaining support for practically every JavaME device available including touch support, qwerty, rotation, multi-resolutions & BlackBerry/Android device support.

There will hopefully be allot of news from TriPlay in this regard in the next few months and I hope to discuss them in the near future, I also hope to cover some of the other cool LWUIT applications we get to see here and there but its difficult to get permissions/videos etc. for everything.

The videos you can see show the English version of the application running in the simulator demonstrating the "shopping" experience as well as the playback and download (media is downloaded once and not streamed). Notice that even in the English version of the application the content is mostly in Hebrew since its targeted at the Israeli market for the most part. The second video shows the application running on the relatively old F480 Samsung touch device with some of the newer LWUIT touch related features such as the VKB, touch menus etc.

I apologize for my unstable hand during the shooting of the second video ;-)

Pelephone is inadvertently a major LWUIT innovator since most of their flagship products are based on LWUIT: Telmap Navigator (very cool new version!), emoze and now Musix.