Mobile App Development

Friday, 7 June 2013

Nokia Mobile Application Development Stage 3

LWUIT FOR NOKIA APP DEVELOPMENT:

Nokia Mobile App Development

LWUIT is the Light Weight User Interface Tools allows you to build high quality user interface java applications. LWUIT allows many widgets to build UI.

LWUIT for Nokia can be used for following SDKs

Nokia asha SDK 1.0
Nokia SDK 2.0 Java
Nokia SDK 1.1 Java

To know more about tools and to download tools click here

LWUIT is originally developed by Sun Microsoft system(now owned by Oracle Inc.).

LWUIT UI Components:

Here is the list of UI components supported by LWUIT for developing rich user interface apps

Form
Label
Button
Radio Button
Check Box
ComboBox
Slider
Category Bar
Tabs
Calender
List
Dialogs

These are the wide variety of UI components supported by LWUIT for Nokia.

Lets see how to use the LWUIT in eclipse IDE for developing Nokia apps.

Creating LWUIT MIDlet Project:

Step 1: Open Nokia IDE for Java Eclipse (v2) in your system.

Step 2: Now click on File->New ->MIDlet Project.

Step 3: Now enter your project name in the corresponding place and click on Finish straightly.

Step 4: So you created your project now you can see your project name in the right side of Eclipse.Just right click on your project name and go to properties you will get properties for LWUIT application dialog box.

Step 5: Now you have to add a external jar file to your project.Click on Libraries tab in properties for LWUIT application and click on add external jar button.

Step 6: (We assume that you installed your Nokia SDK in C Colon.If you chosen different location during installation then go to corresponding location)

Go to the path C:\ Nokia\ Devices\ Nokia_Asha_SDK_1_0\ plugins\ lwuit\ lib\ asha1.0

and choose the Asha with themes jar file and click on Ok.