About OnTheGo

Amazon-OnTheGo is based on the widget of the same name that I developed for the bluepulse platform. Bluepulse is a fun platform for building mobile applications, but when developing the Amazon widget, I was disappointed that some powerful features had to be excluded because of limitations of the platform.

Two months later, I began using the J2ME Polish 1.3 beta, and wanted more than just a simple test project with which I could exercise some of the new Polish features. Combined with the release of the new mobile portal at mobile.java.com, the conditions were set for a new project. I could leverage the work done in the widget, but extend it, and provide some powerful new features that could not be deployed via bluepulse. I could also exercise the Polish beta thoroughly, and submit a project to the Java portal in one fell swoop.

The original intention was to include several midlets in a suite that also included eBay-OnTheGo and Flickr-OnTheGo, but I scaled back the scope of the project to minimize testing costs. If there is demand for more of this sort of thing, just let me know.

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