Porting to Touch Phones

So work’s going pretty good…I’m really enjoying what I’m working on, I haven’t been doing as much work with actual (cell-phone) handsets lately, but none-the-less having fun. I’m working with two very different phones right now, an LG touch handset and a very basic Samsung feature phone.

Right now I’m working on adding/testing the features for touch-enabled handsets to the J2ME edition of the app. This entails things such as making sure we have all the right images and requesting any missing ones from the art department, setting up a configuration file that specifies all the fonts, fixing lots of little bugs like re-positioning the buttons so that the larger buttons (that a fat-finger can press) fit on the screen, ripping out unnecessary code so I don’t have to fix other issues in twelve places, etc.

Basically I’m just doing all that little fun stuff that makes the app just…work…knocking out one bug or problem after another until it is ready to submit to QA. There are lots of little things that go into making the big thing work.