I’ve added a new game-related demo, this time for the always popular “Game Over” screen. This demo showcases one of the many tricks that can be done with the J2ME ARMY KNIFE library: real-time dynamic masks. Check out the live demo (it’s been updated) to see it in action! Also related to dynamic masks: I’ll [...]

A new effect has been added. It’s called wobble, and I hope you’ll like it. Also, the demo framework has changed a bit, it should be faster now. It does have a couple of snags, such as stalling a bit when changing scenes, but I’m working on those. The downloads and on-site demo have been [...]

Hi guys! The performance and refactoring I had planned is done! Memory usage is now no longer an issue, the API feels a bit more polished, and I’ve added a new effect! That, and I almost completely rewrote the entire image manipulation interface. Say goodbye to the native J2ME Image, and say hello to the [...]

Refactoring is going well, and so are the performance improvements. Right now I managed to get the memory usage constant, by reusing resources. I’ve also made this easy to do. For example: if ( resultImage == null ) { resultImage = font.render(text); } else { font.render(text,resultImage); } This is great for animations, since you can [...]