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The CellSpark animator is a tool for producing compact, ready-to-run
multi-media animations for mobile phones without programming. Key features are:
- Single definition of animation for all phone types
- No programming or scripting - animation created through a visual editor
- No server side software
- Runs on the following phones:
- Any Midp1.0 Java phone (without sound support)
- Any Midp (1.0 or 2.0) Java phone with the JSR-135 extension for sound
- Any Nokia phone with the the Nokia UI classes for WAV and OTT sounds
- Japanese i-mode, kddi and vodafone J-sky phones
- All runnable files for all the target phones created with one button push
- User interaction via softbuttons and hotspots
- Animations can dial telephone numbers and open browser URL's (Midp 2.0 & i-mode)
- Small 7K player
- No plugin or embedded software required
- Flash-like interface
- Special wizard for generating karaoke midlets
- Language independent (animations could be in Chinese, Japanese etc)
- Web applets can be generated instead of midlets
- Try before you buy!
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The Java midlets created can render simple static images but their real power is to
display an animated movie sequence of frames with various shapes, text, colors and images that appear, disappear and move.
This can provide a much richer and more compelling user experience.
Anatomy of a CellSpark movie
A CellSpark movie consists of any number of layers which contain any number of objects which can be lines,
polygons, circles, rectangles, images etc.
Associated with each layer there is a timeline. Each time can have an event such as:
- A layer is shown at a certain position
- A layer is hidden
- A layer moves and all it's objects moves to a new position
The CellSpark editor allows WYSIWYG definition of layers. Once created a single button push will
create the phones files ready for downloading.
Other key features
- Chaining movies so when one finishes another can is immediately started
if required
- Automatic image conversion to the format supported by the phone
- Loading resources such as images and new movies from the server
Karaoke with CellSpark
For karaoke the biggest problem is syncing the music with the lyrics.
CellSpark provides a wizard
for creating karaoke midlets from a lyrics file and a midi file. This timing data is then stored as a
CellSpark movie.
Advice for J2ME developers
If you are a J2ME developer then there is a development
notes page to pass on some of the lessons learnt in making CellSpark
efficient, fast and compact.
