Open Source Software for Mobile Phones

Core Plot is a plotting framework for Mac OS X and iPhone OS. It provides 2D visualization of data, and is tightly integrated with Apple technologies like Core Animation, Core Data, and Cocoa Bindings.

Tweetero is an open source Twitter client for Apple iPhone and iPod Touch released by ImageShack Corp.

This project provides a component that you can add to your iPhone application to access all basic features of Google Maps (similar to Android’s MapView). It uses a UIWebView in the background to load the HTML/Javascript version of Google Maps, and offers a set of Objective-C methods that mimic a subset of the original Javascript methods for controlling the map. It currently supports setting the center location, and zooming & panning using the touch interface.

Janus Symbian Engine is a local http server (for Flash Lite) for Smartphones (S60), which allows developers to create engaging Flash Lite applications. It allows you to extend Flash Lite functionalities using simple local http calls (es. loadvariables).

mAha! is a puzzle game for mobile phones along the lines of “Aha”, “Same Gnome”, and many others. The objective is to remove as many colored squares from the field as possible in as few moves as possible. There is also a desktop version available

A J2ME PacMan game. It is student project in UIUC.

A modified version of JZLIB, which may work on devices with very low memory amounts available, such as J2ME mobile phones.

TastePhone is a midlet which allows users to test their Java phones. By using this midlet everyone can taste the performance of Java ME phone: MIDP & CLDC version, processor speed, RAM size, flash size (RMS), screen capabilities and screen quality, optional APIs provided by JSR (WMA, MMAPI, …).

A sorted list of MIDP Java phones with detailed information and benchmark results.

KABLOG is a tool for mobile phones and PDAs that allows you to post photos and blog entries to blog servers and services such as TypePad, Movable Type, Blogger, WordPress, B2, Blog-City, UserLand (Radio), Roller, SnipSnap, and other blog servers that support either the simple blogger xmlrpc interface or the extended metaWeblog interface.

Pebble is a very lightweight, personal blogger that is written as a web application to run inside standard J2EE web containers using standard technologies such as JSP, Servlets, filters, JSP custom tags, JSTL and JAXP.

Pebble moblog is a J2ME/MIDP client that lets you publish to your Pebble blog from your phone.