Appendix A. Java Game API Reference
Java is not just a programming language; it is also a library of classes and interfaces that provides a wide range of features for developers. Even the MIDP API, which is the subset of the Java API designed for mobile phone programming, has a surprisingly wide range of interesting features given its constrained size. Within the MIDP API is a package with classes devoted solely to the development of mobile games. This package is called javax.microedition.lcdui.game, and it was added in version 2.0 of the MIDP API to meet the increasing demands of mobile game developers.
The classes offered in the javax.microedition.lcdui.game package are loosely referred to as the “mobile game API,” and are important because they ...
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