Programming Wireless Devices with the Java™ 2 Platform, Micro Edition, Second Edition

8.7. New for MIDP 2.0

We have marked a number of topics in this chapter as New! with an icon in the book margin. The user interface capabilities of the high-level user interface have been dramatically improved to allow increased control by the application developer over the layout and visual elements.

Class Display has been improved to allow:

• the querying of the colors used by the device for normal and highlighted colors for foreground, background, and borders (see the getColor method),

• the activation of the backlight and vibrator of the device as added effects to gain the attention of the user (see the vibrate and flashBacklight methods),

• the querying ...