Not technically part of the Piece-of-Shit series, this post leverages your familiarity with it.
I have my Android ADP1, and I am jamming!
I am accessing Contact List, Current Location, everything, and all without annoying user prompting or paying Certificate Authority fees!
I am also happily using the JRE1.5 feature set, which includes annotations and generics, making for some downright fun development.
You see, I have freed myself from the straightjacket woven by that other piece-of-shit Java-based mobile platform.
Of course, the damage control is on. We are seeing JavaFX Mobile coming.
This sounds promising, but I have already built desktop JavaFX applications, and I can tell you it is a big fat memory hog! You cannot run a non-trivial application without tons of heap space because it connects all of your binds (can't do UI anything without those) into a big evaluation graph, so that boolean in your app is way bigger than one byte! Not to mention all the memory it needs for those nifty animation effects and whatnot. Last I checked, most mobile platforms don't have 500MB of Free Memory in them!
The Jail is Broken. Praise Your Favorite Deity for that!
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