BlackBerry and 2D/3D Graphics Engines

loretoparisi's picture

I'm wondering if any of us at Blackberry Developers Forum tested any of following graphics engines for J2ME on our BlackBerry:

These are very interesting APIs UI oriented in order to develop - brand new - graphic user interfaces on mobile platforms. I'm wondering if is was possible to apply TWUIK/TinyLine APIs and BlackBerry SDK's APIs to obtain rich UIs in a tiny SVG fashion. This is quite interesting because of restrectiveness of J2ME platform 2D graphics APIs (Screen, Canvas, Display et similaria). By example, we could take a look to TWUIK AnimationCanvas (http://www.tricastmedia.com/v1/twuik/tutorial/part1.html#4)to make our considerations abuot Sun's way to make innovative J2ME User Interfaces.

I'm investigating the way of really make work these low-cost GUI APIs on J2ME BlackBerry devices.

 
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VERY interesting I would like to know how to buy or test this TWUIK library, it seems very good. 

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Juan Herrera

googlemaps uses tinyline so that's definitely doable

Blogger

I am starting with tinyline...

I have try to use the j2mepolish but with no great results... :(

 

ulvy

loretoparisi's picture

Yes, I know J2MEPolish, interesting project, but away from being an innovative j2me gui builder. More like a comprehensive framework for compiling, building, localizing and deploying your MIDlet projects.

Loreto Parisi
Senior Software Engineer
Dada.net - R&D
Florence, Italy.
 

 

loretoparisi's picture

Uhm , well TWUIK is not free of charge, and no demo is available for download :(

Anyhow, online videos and examples reveal a powerfull engine as like the TWUIK RME seems to really be...

Loreto Parisi
Senior Software Engineer
Dada.net - R&D
Florence, Italy.
 

 

I contacted the TWUIK people and they gave me some basic information regarding pricing, but there was no API documentation or demo available.  I was a little concerned that it wouldn't work in a BB environment.  It would be nice to see downloads and such, but I don't think the TWUIK people are targeting the casual developer.

 This is not a criticism of the TWUIK organization.  Just my opinion based on my brief interaction with them.

loretoparisi's picture

I agree, people at TWUIK should consider to put a demo and/or a basic api doc online. At this time there's no way to test the API before buying it. Developers need a demo application to test the real effectiveness of TWUIK APIs capabilities and promises to evalutate and benchmarking the API like TinyLine does with the SVG API. Not just clip.

Cheers,

Loreto Parisi
Senior Software Engineer
Dada.net - R&D
Florence, Italy.