Open Source Software for Mobile Phones

LocationAPITools library is a collection of classes that simplify the development of location-aware mobile applications using the JSR-179 Location API on the Java ME (CLDC/MIDP) platform.

Mewt is an advanced widget toolkit for Java ME devices, providing a wide array of widgets (tree, tables, lists, buttons etc.) which automatically resize across different screen resolutions, and an array of attractive, customiseable themes.

Posted by Romain Guy, the author of Filthy Rich Clients, Photostream from Google is a simple photos browser and viewer for Flickr. This application serves as an illustrative example of several Android features and APIs.

JSONPull is a simple and efficient JSON parsing (’pull’ parsing, similar to XML pull parsing) for Java ME and Java SE.

Created by Felipe Andrade and Alessandro Pace, Jarpa is a development tool which allows Flash Lite developers deliver their content as Java ME applications.

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Twim is a mobile Twitter client for Java enabled phones. You are able to view your recent time line, replies and your status archive. You are also able to update your current status from the application.

ZXing (pronounced “zebra crossing”) is an open-source, multi-format 1D/2D barcode reader library implemented in Java. The goal is to support decoding of QR Codes, Data Matrix, and the UPC family of 1D barcodes. Working clients for Android, Java ME , iPhone, and BlackBerry devices will be provided.

Floggy is a free object persistence framework for J2ME/MIDP applications. The main goal of this framework is to abstract the data persistence details from the developer, reducing the development and maintenance effort.

Hammock is a Java ME mock object framework for testing J2ME apps with J2MEUnit or JMUnit. The framework includes mocks of many of the standard Java ME classes for communications such as HTTP, SMS, OBEX, etc so that one can test without actually hitting a network. A HammockMaker utility lets you mock any other class. It has Ant tasks for continuous integration testing.

FallME is a framework based on the popular Spring Framework but designed for the Java ME (J2ME) platform and is compatible with MIDP. Currently included in FallME is an inversion of control (IoC) container as well as a RecordStoreTemplate.