Your Own Kind Of Music

Majimob has introduced a new media player this month, what hasn't been stressed was the fact that it is built from the ground up on LWUIT. In less than 3 weeks this new media player was downloaded 200,000 times and the numbers are rising with the 1.1 version released this weekend. You can read allot about MajiPlayer in the site (which I urge you to do) but what might not be as immediately obvious is just how much LWUIT contributed to this unique player... The whole application was written in under 2 months (including version 1.1 which includes major new features), it works on a ridiculously large number of devices as is evident from the getjar statistics for downloads. The main reason for failures in getjar when such occur, is the need for a signing certificate and even that isn't too bad.
The stunning part is that the application utilizes MMAPI, File connector & restricted API's (digital certificate). All of these are especifically notorious in the porting community as porting "problems", yet MajiPlayer is still able to realize LWUITs vision of one jar for all devices. Resources for themes are downloadable on the fly with a rather cool AJAX based theme uploading tool (I understand downloading user generated themes is "in the pipe"), the selection of themes is also impressive for a small application.

This sort of approach allows majimob to utilize the economies of scale thus reducing prices and deriving profits from ads, the advertising integration in the unregistered version of MajiPlayer is unique for mobile phones and utilizes LWUIT extensively.

LWUITs features are used to the max throughout the application in very obvious ways, transitions, progress, dialogs, themes, fonts etc. are all extensively leveraged.

See more videos of MajiPlayer in action here.