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Add multimedia to your MIDlets

An overview of the Mobile Media API (MMAPI)

Soma Ghosh (soma.sghosh@gmail.com), Senior Developer, US Foodservice
A holder of a Master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering, Soma Ghosh has, over the past ten years, developed a wide range of Java applications in the areas of e-commerce and networking. She believes that wireless commerce is the wave of the near future, and is interested in and drawn to wireless initiatives from existing desktop components and models. Soma is an open source Java developer and currently associated with US Foodservice Corporation. She has authored several articles on J2ME for developerWorks, and she can be reached at soma.sghosh@gmail.com.

Summary:  This tutorial demonstrates the Mobile Media API (MMAPI), which extends the functions of Java™ 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME) by providing audio, video, and other time-based multimedia support to resource-constrained devices.

Date:  29 Nov 2005
Level:  Intermediate
PDF:  A4 and Letter (348 KB | 22 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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Before you start

This tutorial describes the Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME) Mobile Media API (MMAPI). You develop a MIDlet that takes advantage of the multimedia capabilities MMAPI provides.

About this tutorial

The MMAPI allows easy and simple access and control of basic audio and multimedia resources on devices with limited memory and processing capabilities. This tutorial is intended to get you started. You need to have basic knowledge of J2ME to in order to understand the material.

The tutorial takes a basic approach to MMAPI, starting with an explanation of the MMAPI architecture, packages, and objects, and then showing you how to create an audio- and video-capable MIDlet.

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Prerequisites

For this tutorial, you need to install the J2ME Wireless Toolkit 2.0 (WTK; see Resources for a link). MMAPI comes with the Toolkit. The J2ME WTK provides a development and emulation environment for executing MIDP (Mobile Information Device Profile) and CLDC (Connected Limited Device Configuration)-based applications. J2ME 2.0 requires that you install JDK 1.4.

To execute the sample MIDlet, you'll need to download the MIDI file that accompanies this tutorial -- pattern.mid (see the downloads section for a link) -- and put it in <WTK Home>\apps\MediaMIDlet\res before you execute the program.

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