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Java was used long before Android. It was in feature phones, like from manufacturers like Sony Ericsson (and developers would write games and mapping software i

Java was used long before Android. It was in feature phones, like from manufacturers like Sony Ericsson (and developers would write games and mapping software in it too).

tcoff91 5y ago
SIM cards actually run a stripped down Java on them.
- laumars 5y ago
  So do Blueray players, Java is everywhere.
- pdkl95 5y ago
  A friend of mine had one of these (1998-99): https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/home/digital-jewelry3.htm https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/home/digital-j... > The Java Ring is a stainless-steel ring, 16-millimeters (0.6 inches) in diameter, that houses a 1-million-transistor processor, called an iButton. The ring has 134 KB of RAM, 32 KB of ROM, a real-time clock and a Java virtual machine A wearable device that could run arbitrary portable code was a cool idea.
KronisLV 5y ago
I still remember playing some of those games on my phone with the Symbian OS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian Honestly, it was nice while it lasted and it was interesting to see developers do a lot with so little screen real estate, memory and other hardware limitations, like an evolution of the consoles of the older days, before phones became essentially scaled down fully featured computers. It is especially interesting because most modern JDK releases are known to be pretty memory hungry, in contrast to what the developers had to pull off back then. If Java had a stronger focus on embedded and low resource environments, who knows, maybe it'd be as usable as MicroPython nowadays. It appears that there are actually a few apps available that can supposedly load these games, though i haven't personally checked them out: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.playsoftware.j2meloader https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.playsoftwar... That said, i do have fond memories of Doom RPG back in the day, as well as the likes of Galaxy on Fire, as well as the old classic Gravity Defied. What a nice decade that was!

Java was used long before Android. It was in feature phones, like from manufacturers like Sony Ericsson (and developers would write games and mapping software in it too).

tcoff91 5y ago

SIM cards actually run a stripped down Java on them.

laumars 5y ago
So do Blueray players, Java is everywhere.
pdkl95 5y ago
A friend of mine had one of these (1998-99): https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/home/digital-jewelry3.htm https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/home/digital-j... > The Java Ring is a stainless-steel ring, 16-millimeters (0.6 inches) in diameter, that houses a 1-million-transistor processor, called an iButton. The ring has 134 KB of RAM, 32 KB of ROM, a real-time clock and a Java virtual machine A wearable device that could run arbitrary portable code was a cool idea.

KronisLV 5y ago

I still remember playing some of those games on my phone with the Symbian OS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian Honestly, it was nice while it lasted and it was interesting to see developers do a lot with so little screen real estate, memory and other hardware limitations, like an evolution of the consoles of the older days, before phones became essentially scaled down fully featured computers. It is especially interesting because most modern JDK releases are known to be pretty memory hungry, in contrast to what the developers had to pull off back then. If Java had a stronger focus on embedded and low resource environments, who knows, maybe it'd be as usable as MicroPython nowadays. It appears that there are actually a few apps available that can supposedly load these games, though i haven't personally checked them out: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.playsoftware.j2meloader https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.playsoftwar... That said, i do have fond memories of Doom RPG back in the day, as well as the likes of Galaxy on Fire, as well as the old classic Gravity Defied. What a nice decade that was!