I'll have to get a new cell pretty soon since my current phone has been held together with electrical tape for over a year and a half. Since they come with a 2 year contract (unless you pay full price) I try to look into the future when I buy one, and I will probably want to do some JavaFX development on my next cell phone. This articl...
Hi, I would like to write a litte data-entry app for mobile phones using JavaME (MIDP/CLDC). How do I best synchronize the data with a local application on my PC (resp. just transfer the data to the PC)? Is there any standard way to connect to the PC if the mobile is plugged in via an USB cable? I know that I could just connect to some...
I have a old LG MG280 cellphone that I'd like to code some simple things for. It has Java support, but I know that it is not simply making a Java ME application. It has to follow some specific specs otherwise the app will not run. Does anyone know what those specs are? ...
Hi, i would like to buy a new cell phone that runs Android. From what I heard I assume it's quiet programable and customizable. What are your Experiences? Are there any good books on the topic? Regards Nick ...
Can the bluetooth search run while checking if any SMS messages have been received? When I try to check if there is a new SMS by the command "msg = smsconn.receive()", the program will not go back to search for bluetooth devices. Meaning that I can't get it to check for SMS while running the bluetooth search. Can someone please help m...
I would like to read a EAN-13 bar-code from an image in C. I found the OpenCV library that should help me to compute the image as well as an article about an iPhone App that can read Sudoku. But in an other hand, I found an opensource library to read DataMatrix bar-code. I would like to join an existing OpenSource project about reading...
I have an old T-Mobile MDA. It has WiFi, Windows Mobile and a camera. I would like to convert it to be used as a baby monitor. Ideally, I could do this with just be a port of VLC to Windows Mobile, but I didn't see any binaries of that sort. Does anyone have any suggestions? All the hardware is there. I just to write or use an appl...
Is it possible to send a text message from a computer to a cell phone? I'd like to be able to do this with Ruby, not quite sure what it entails. After seeing GrandCentral and Google Voice, it seems like it's not that bad. Is it possible? How do I get started! ...
We have another contact store in another database which our sales team would like to access using Outlook from their cell phones. Has anyone done something similar to this? If so what experience did you make and how much effort was it? Even if not done, does anyone have some comments about how they would go about it? Thanks for any hel...
Hello, do anyone know some C or C++ interpreter for cell phones? I have Nokia 5310 and found some Basic interpreter (CellBasic) and want to develop in C or C++ on the go. Or, does anybody knows Scheme J2ME intepreter? ...
Hello there, folks. I would like to read your recommendations about the best APIs (free or of manageable costs, mind you) for mobile phones programming. What are the best APIs that can work on a large number of phone platforms (write once run everywhere, anyone?), and what about their security features? The project in consideration is...
If memory serves me correctly, google does this for the maps site. I know google's mobile maps app can determine the rough location (I assume using some kind of cell tower lookup), yet I seem to remember the site getting somewhat close to the current location when viewing on a mobile browser. Anyone know how/if that's possible? Does the...
Good morning I would like to enable my customers to read their data on my website through cell phones. My website is ASP.NET application. I saw Nokia and Apple has their own SDKs that enables you to accomplish it creating software application. Is there a unique language platform I can code my software in order to run it on all cell...
I'd like to get a cell phone to play around a bit with firmware programming. That's a totally new field for me. Is it possible to change the original phone's firmware for a custom one? Any pointers on how to do that? Also, which cell phone model would you recommend? I'm not totally interested (at the moment) in keeping call functional...
Is there any way to redirect cell phone output to a standard screen? Would it be possible on Linux & X-server based devices - like Maemo? And on Android devices? ...
I am creating a BREW app that requests the user's position. If the phone cannot acquire the position, I would like to display an error. How long should I wait for my callback to be called before I determine that the phone is not likely to get a GPS fix? ...
Hi guys, I want to do programming directly on my cell phone. Do you guys know this kind of programming environment available? The programming language is irrelevant. Thanks. ...
I'm looking to embed a J2ME application as an applet in a web page to be accessed via a mobile phone web browser. Every major web browser supports the embedding of Java applets - does an analog exist for cell phone web browsers? If not, does there exist a cross-platform way of launching a J2ME application from a mobile web browser? ...
Hi, I am using Radio Layer Interface (RIL) Native APIs in Windows Mobile application. In this API, the return values / results of most functions are not returned immediately but are passed through a callback function which is passed to the RIL API. Some usage examples are found at XDA Develompent Tools and Google Gears Geolocation API....
There might have been a restriction on originating (making) calls (voice or data) from mobile phones without an explicit user permission i.e. a window would pop-up, asking the user to press 'Yes'/approve or 'No'/cancel for a call attempt made by a software application on that cellphone/mobile. There seems though to exist API for making ...