Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were called "feature phones"

Re:Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were ... by SLWW on Thursday May 20, 2021 @02:56PM (#27225506)

> Java be like, "we are cross-platform" > mobile manufacturers, "hold my phone"

The problem with cross-platform development in a nutshell. Still to this day writing an Android/iOS app using PCL code is a headache

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Re:Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were ... by viraptor on Thursday May 20, 2021 @04:25PM (#27226732)

At least adapting to another private API was easier because the scope was pretty small. It's probably lost forever now, but I had a project which repacked jars to add a few wrapper classes to convert Nokia-specific j2me games to be compatible with my Siemens.

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Re:Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were ... by SLWW on Monday May 24, 2021 @03:09PM (#27268467)

Yeah; as things get more complicated though i feel that this concept will never return

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