I have had considerable progress with the application this week, especially since implementing Dan O'Sullivan's Image Sender code. One of the largest problems with the original application was unreliable image sending capability and the new image sending code seems to have resolved that problem. I am still having difficulty integrating the different parts of the application, but I hope to continue working on that in the upcoming week.
Last semester I began work on an application to support a project that I have been working on since January of 2006, freeformed.org. The goal of the application was to make it easier for users with Java enabled phones to upload video and photographs to the freeformed site and to incorporate xml parsing to enable users to access their individual groups and subscribed circles directly from the application. Unfortunately, I ran into some difficulties. Each section of the application seemed to work separately but not when combined together. In this class I hope to finish the application, understand more about how to structure a J2ME application and also to incorporate what I am able to figure out into a new application that I want to create for the Aura project that I worked on with Nanna Halinen for the redial class last semester. This application will utilize many of the same features as well as some additional ones that I plan to incorporate by using the phones bluetooth device. I am not sure if I will be able to complete both applications this semester but I hope to at least feel more comfortable with J2ME. I found that, while the mobile application design class last semester covered some interesting topics (I was certainly excited to have Adam Greenfield as a guest speaker) I came out of the class having accomplished very little, despite working incredibly hard and reading two J2ME books cover to cover.