I finally got to do what I planned to do for a while! Give my Jornada 820 some purpose in life and write a Twitter client for it
Twitter is perfect as it's just text and a few pictures, the Jornada can handle that easily with some efficient coding!
Here's a screenshot!
(Most tweets blurred out for privacy
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I used PersonalJava again for realizing this as I can easily write Windows CE apps that way without any specific CE api knowledge. Actually, the app also runs on any platform that supports Java of course, could even run it on Windows 95!
Before you get your hopes up, there is a little catch! It's actually a thin client as some processing happens on my little server. Twitter uses PNG for a lot of the pictures, so my server converts them to gif/jpeg and resizes them as well, as a too big photo would easily fill up the whole RAM of the machine at once.
Otherwise, it's a basic Twitter client that displays the stream of my timeline.
Things to do still:
- Create option to send tweets
- Show pic.twitter.com previews
- Implement word wrapping
(as you see Tweets are cut off atm
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If anyone is interested I'll post the source