Mobile Media API is a low footprint and versatile API that enables creation of multimedia applications in Java enabled phones. With this API, it is possible to add and control audio, video and image based media to MIDlets from different sources.

Pro Java ME MMAPI book explores this API in detail. This book explains the architecture of this API, explores how this architecture sits with the Mobile Independent Device Profile (MIDP) and shows you how to make the best use of the multimedia capabilities of a Java enabled phone.

This book has detailed examples that cover the basic stuff, like simple audio playback and tone generation to more advanced issues, like synchronized media playback, video, audio and image capture and streaming live radio. The book uses a real world mobile phone to demonstrate these examples, besides the Java Wireless Toolkit emulators and Motorola and BenQ emulators.

This is the first book by a major publisher that covers this topic in detail. It provides an all-in-one reference to create multimedia applications for Java enabled phones using the MMAPI.

The simple table of contents is listed here:

1. Introducing Mobile Media API (MMAPI)
2. MMAPI Architecture
3. Getting started with MMAPI
4. Media Player Lifecycle and Events
5. Accessing Media Over the network
6. Creating and Playing Tones using ToneControl
7. Managing MIDI Using MIDIControl, TempoControl and PitchControl
8. Working with Audio and Video
9. Case Study: Device Blogging
10. Appendix A: Mobile Media API Reference
11. Appendix B: URI Syntax for Media Locators
12. Appendix C: Advanced Multimedia Supplements - JSR 234