Ulf Dittmer wrote:First off, you're talking about JME - you're aware that neither Android nor iPhone use JME, right? Android development is done in a subset/superset of JSE 5,
while iPhone development is done in ObjectiveC (OO, but rather different from Java).
I don't think I've encountered (or heard of) a cell phone that has a serial connector, so that will be a challenge. Or does the converter take care of that if there's a USB connection?
Hardware details will be specific to the handset, so I'd imagine that Android phones may differ in what they offer.
As to processing barcodes, for Android you can use http://code.google.com/p/zxing/. I'm sure there's something similar (maybe even from Apple) for the iPhone.
What does it have for GUI, anything that looks like awt or Swing?
IPhone has Java now, right?
[List of FAQs] | [Android FAQ] | [Samuh Varta]
http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-install-compile-run-java-on-iphone/
Dawn Charangat wrote:A few simple thoughts on the iPhone/Java (JME) combination
http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-install-compile-run-java-on-iphone/
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My Android phone has a "B-type" mini USB connector on it. To hook it up to a scale (how does a scale figure into "portable"?), you'd need a base computer (since the phone USB is a peripheral, not a host).
Reading barcodes is the easiest part of it. And, since the phone wasn't available without a data plan, I'm guaranteed I can send the scanned code to the server of my choice, so if a scale was also logged into that server, I could combine the 2 on the server end, and even use GPS to indicate which scale if I had roaming access to scales.
Jane Jukowsky wrote:Hi Tim,
Lots of cool ides, thanks.
OK, IPhone is out then.
My Android phone has a "B-type" mini USB connector on it. To hook it up to a scale (how does a scale figure into "portable"?), you'd need a base computer (since the phone USB is a peripheral, not a host).
Ouch! I don't want a base computer by every scale. I've read somewhere though that someone's converted phone usb into a host somehow, I'll look for a link. I think it would be cheaper then to buy an rs232 to bluetooth adapters and make the scales bluetooth. But then, how do you read bluetooth?
BTW, who said anything about portable? :-)
Reading barcodes is the easiest part of it. And, since the phone wasn't available without a data plan, I'm guaranteed I can send the scanned code to the server of my choice, so if a scale was also logged into that server, I could combine the 2 on the server end, and even use GPS to indicate which scale if I had roaming access to scales.
How do you get your barcode reading?
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