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Lab 5 - WeatherClient

 Write a weather client in J2ME.  You can use any of the J2ME API's you like or need and the layout and operation of the client is up to your design.

Detailed requirements:

• Configuration screen (location, user configuration information such as the number of days to display, or the icon size/color set).
• Retrieve and parse weather data from any source. Some possibilities are listed below but if you have a better one you can use that:
• You can display the weather in a Form or on a Canvas/GameCanvas.
• Display a minimum of 3 days weather information (today and the next 2 days).
• Display a minimum of 1 location (whatever the user enters in the configuration screen).

Optional features you might want to add:

• Make the number of days of weather to dispay a configurable option.
• Search the weather text for keywords (sunny, rain, thunderstorms) and display an appropriate icon.
• Provide several icon sizes and let the user pick the size/style they like.
• Allow the user to maintain a list of several locations for displaying the weather and provide an option for easily switching between them.
• Use the current GPS (GPS simulator) location to get the local weather.
• Provide a name look-up service so a user can enter something like "Baltimore MD" and you can map that to a location ID.
• Provide an option to display satellite maps.

Resources:

• Weather data sources
  • http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/
  • http://www.weather.com/services/xmloap.html
  • http://www.weather.gov/forecasts/xml/OGC_services/
  • http://www.worldweatheronline.com/free-weather-feed.aspx
  • http://m.wund.com/
  • http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/003201.html
• Weather icons
  • http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/free-weather-icons-collection/
  • http://www.nordicweather.net/index.php?sivu=90&ic=1&lang=en
  • http://weatherdoll.com/weather-icons.php
• Location lookup
  • http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer/
  • http://www.zipinfo.com/cgi-local/zipsrch.exe
• Parsing XML in J2ME
  • http://developer.sonyericsson.com/site/global/techsupport/tipstrickscode...
  • http://java.sun.com/javame/reference/apis/jsr172/
  • http://developers.sun.com/mobility/midp/articles/parsingxml/

Examples

Example of J2ME weather clients

• http://www.weatherbug.com/mobile/mobilejava/default.asp
• http://www.nokiasoftware.net/symbian-applications-os-9-1/6942-world-weat...
• http://www.getjar.com/mobile/27092/gweather/

What to turn in

• Follow the general lab guidelines.
• Turn in a ZIP file of your entire WTK project.
• Tell me where you get your images (files, sprites, etc).
• If you had difficulty implementing some features, describe the problems you had and leave in your non-functional code (its better to show that you tried to implement the requirements than to not show any evidence that you tried).