Open Source Software for Mobile Phones

Fountain 3D is an open source wireframe 3D engine that even runs on the crappiest cellphones without OpenGL ES.

microBalls comes with procedural texture generator, 6 different sprites, FPS counter and all the other bells and whistles.

MIDP Sys Info extracts information from MIDP capable devices. It shows canvas size, color and fullscreen capabilities, available image, sound, and video formats, system resources, and game key assignments. It can also perform some processor benchmarking.

TaylorBench is a very simple benchmark that tests the low-level performance of a MIDP-compliant device. These characteristics are considered in TaylorBench for J2ME devices: low-level graphics, RMS, CPU/VM (processor and Java Virtual Machine) and read/write of files, both locally and remotely (HTTP).

The Mobile Device Tools are a suite of Java utilities that can be used by developers in the creation of new J2ME software for mobile devices. They give a developer a good way to explore the capabilities and limitations of phones and other devices, and come up to speed quickly with new devices. The three tools are:

• “Keys”, which tests which events are generated by which keys and finds the key codes of non-standard keys
• “Specs”, which finds the basic device information and the support for the various optional JSRs, and
• “ClassBrowser”, which provides information about feature support by allowing the user to explore the hierarchy of the classes present on the device.

The RMStress Test Suite provides information on how efficient the javax.microedition.rms implements is on a given device. It goes through steps to create, open, close, delete, write to and read from multiple record stores.