New Article From Biswajit On Styles & Themes

Biswajit Sarkar has written another java.net article about styles, painters & themes. Its more up to date with the current style architecture in LWUIT than other articles covering the subject.
His article also covers some other new LWUIT features such as tables.

On an unrelated note Ofir got tasked last week with getting a LWUIT application to run efficiently on Symbian OS 8. He benchmarked the application and discovered that the cause of performance issues is the existence of an alpha channel in the images. The performance difference he showed us was staggering!
We always new bitmap fonts were slower on such devices (an image with an alpha channel) but it seems that even simpler transparency (without translucency) might make a huge difference.

Biswajit Sarkar Talking About J2ME & LWUIT

With the current holidays around here and quite a bit of work I didn't keep up the blog as I probably should. I'll try to get back into posting soon when everything calms down around here. While waiting for me to get my act together here is a talk that Biswajit Sarkar (author of the LWUIT 1.1 book) gave at the IndicThreads conference in India.
This talk is mostly for introduction to J2ME development and covers LWUIT among many of the subjects mentioned.
Its probably too introductory level for most of the readers of this blog, however it might be very useful to pass along to colleagues as a means of introducing them to J2ME/LWUIT. Biswajit is as usual very thorough in his details which is always important when discussing something as elaborate as mobile development.