[Gvsig_english] gvSIG Mobile (pilot) released.

[Miguel Montesinos]

Hello Agustin, 

I agree that iPhone is a very interesting platform, but it does not allow Java development so far. Sun has announced further support for iPhone using its phoneMe project[1]. We are currently trying to support phoneMe Advanced JVM, so when a JVM becomes available for iPhone, we'll run tests for checking compatibility.

Morevoer, more and more platforms come out with a kind of non-stop fever. Android [2] is also another very important platforma as well. Porting to this platform (where applications only can be developed in Java) may be not so easy, as it's not a J2ME compliant architecture. Ubuntu recently announced a version of its operative systems for mobile devices, with Java support[3]. And there are more, like OpenMoko [4], a full-open-source project that has open specifications for both software and hardware, with plans for J2ME support.

Some of these platforms may take several months of development for supporting, so it's important to target to the most wid range of support. So far our intention is to offer support for J2ME-CDC platforms in a first stage. This would allow gvSIG Mobile to work with Windows Mobile, Ubuntu Mobile, OpenMoko, some other Linux PDAs, and maybe iPhone. But we also have Android in our mind.

Hope this helps.

[1] https://phoneme.dev.java.net/ 
[2] http://code.google.com/android/
[3] http://news.digitaltrends.com/news/story/15876/new_details_emerge_on_ubuntu_mobile
[4] http://www.openmoko.org/

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: gvsig_internacional-bounces at runas.cap.gva.es 
>[mailto:gvsig_internacional-bounces at runas.cap.gva.es] On 
>Behalf Of Agustin Diez Castillo
>Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 3:49 PM
>To: Users and Developers mailing list
>Subject: Re: [Gvsig_english] gvSIG Mobile (pilot) released.
>
>Great news.
>I renew my wish about iPhone and gvSIG. The new iPhone 2.0 is 
>out and they say that it's really easy to port any software.
>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/technology/personaltech/13pog
>ue-email.html?_r=1&8cir&emc=cir&oref=slogin
>Agustin
>On Mar 14, 2008, at 12:55 PM, Manuel Madrid wrote:
>
>> Hello everybody and sorry for the cross-posting.
>>
>> It gives us great pleasure to announce that the pilot application 
>> awarded the development contract for the gvSIG Mobile application by 
>> the Regional Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport is available.
>> gvSIG Mobile is a smaller version of gvSIG which has been 
>adapted for 
>> use in mobile devices. It supports shapefiles, ECW, WMS and 
>images and 
>> is able to make use of GPS systems. Currently, only the 
>visualization 
>> of layers and the generation of GPS tracklogs/ waypoints are 
>> supported. There is an extension for gvSIG Desktop available 
>too which 
>> allows cartographic information to be exported from gvSIG Desktop to 
>> gvSIG Mobile.
>>
>> Both gvSIG Mobile and the syncronization extension are available at 
>> gvSIG website http://www.gvsig.gva.es
>>
>> We hope it's really useful for you and don't hesitate to send us any 
>> comment.
>>
>> Kind regards.
>> The gvSIG team.
>> --
>> Manuel Madrid.
>> Proyecto gvSIG (http://www.gvsig.gva.es) Asistencia Técnica Externa.
>> Conselleria d'Infraestructures i Transport.
>> Generalitat Valenciana.
>> Valencia (Spain).
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