mobile

Programmatic SMS

What is the best way to programmatically send an SMS text message? Are there any free Web Service based SMS gateways? I know that if I happen to know the user's carrier (Sprint, AT&T, etc), I can send an SMS by emailing an address based on phone number + carrier. I would like a good solution that does not require me to know the carrier...

Best binary XML format for JavaME

Can anyone recommend a good binary XML format? It's for a JavaME application, so it needs to be a) Easy to implement on the server, and b) Easy to write a low-footprint parser for on a low-end JavaME client device. And it goes without saying that it needs to be smaller than XML, and faster to parse. ...

Planning and Building a mobile enabled site for your main site.

We are in the initial planning stages of building out a mobile site for one of our clients. This mobile site will be in addition to the main site that we have already built for them. We've determined that the content is going to be a small subsection of the main site and will target the main audience that is expected to use the site. ...

Mobile device is detected as non mobile device

I've included a mobile web form in my asp.net project, I thought that it could/should be seen just for my mobile users but I realize that it can also be seen from any browser, I don't see problem there cause I could diff the access using HttpBrowserCapabilities.IsMobileDevice=true and transferring to the appropiate aspx page, but it resu...

Which resolution to target for a Mobile App?

When desinging UI for mobile apps in general which resolution could be considered safe as a general rule of thumb. My interest lies specifically in web based apps. The iPhone has a pretty high resolution for a hand held, and the Nokia E Series seem to oriented differently. Is 240×320 still considered safe? ...

Cannot access a webservice from mobile device

I developed a program in a mobile device (Pocket PC 2003) to access a web service, the web service is installed on a Windows XP SP2 PC with IIS, the PC has the IP 192.168.5.2. The device obtains from the wireless network the IP 192.168.5.118 and the program works OK, it calls the method from the web service and executes the action that...

Mobile devices for developers

I need to develop some programs for mobile devices but haven't decided the platform to build upon. I'm looking for Palm or Pocket PC devices that have Touch screen and Wi-Fi connection and are cheep because I'll need to buy several of them. I don't really need camera, mp3 players, video players, pdf readers or anything else since the a...

Are There Adapters for CF Type II to MicroSD?

I honestly have only started recently researching this so my knowledge is limited. I was approached about adapting some Pocket PC software to operate on the Windows 6 platform. After considering how I would go about doing that in the Compact Framework I received more details. It seems there is a desire to utilize (re-use) CF Type II dev...

What work has been done on cross-platform mobile development?

Have any well-documented or open source projects targeted iPhone, Blackberry, and Android? Are there other platforms which are better-suited to such an endeavor? Note that I am particularly asking about client-side software, not web apps, though any information about the difficulties of using web apps across multiple mobile platforms is ...

How do you navigate out of a ComboBox on a Windows Mobile Device without a TAB key?

Hi All, I'm developing an application for Windows Mobile Devices using Visual Studio .NET 2008 whose UI requires the use of a ComboBox control. Unfortunately, for devices with neither a hardware fullsize keyboard nor a touchscreen interface, there is no way to move (tab) from the ComboBox control to another control on the same form (say...

iPhone browser tag and optimized web site

What is iPhone's browser tag and how iPhone optimized web site is different from a usual mobile web site? Thanks! ...

What kind of technologies are available for sending text messages?

I'm looking into sending regular automated text-messages to a list of subscribed users. Having played with Windows Mobile devices, I could easily implement this using the compact .Net framework + a device hooked up to usb and send the messages through this. I would like to explore other solutions like having a server or something similar...

Creating a mini-site in ASP.NET that works on Blackberry, Windows Mobile, and iPhone

I'm working on an ASP.NET website which targets desktop browsers. We want to enable an optional mobile view (e.g. http://m.sample.com) which will offer a few simple pages which will be mostly text. There will be not need for AJAX or even Javascript, and there's no user input - it's really just tables of text with a few links to navigate ...

moving to android from j2me

Coming from J2ME programming are there any similarities that would make it easy to adapt to Android API. Or is Andorid API completely different from the J2ME way of programming mobile apps. ...

Does anyone have a good resource for mobile CSS templates that work on most phones/devices?

More and more mobile devices are consuming content on my eCommerce sites. IPhones, Blackberries, PSPs, Windows Mobile, etc and I need some ideas how to handle repurposing my data using CSS templates for these devices. Any ideas would be great. ...

Is there a way to use Lua on BREW 3.0 platform?

It looks like BREW 4.0 will have Lua included. But is it possible to use Lua on older BREW 3.0 (or even BREW 2.0)? ...

Single application build for multiple mobile devices

Is it possible to have one application binary build for multiple mobile devices (on BREW platform), rather than making a separate build for each device using build script with conditional compilation. In particular is is possible to use single BREW application build for multiple screen resolutions? Note that the goal is to have a singl...

How to tell if a process is running on a mobile device

I have the handle of process 'A' on a Pocket PC 2003 device. I need to determine if that process is still running from process 'B'. Process 'B' is written in Embedded Visual C++ 4.0. ...

How to do manual form authentication for ASP.NET mobile page

I am developing an ASP.NET mobile website using .NET 3.5 and mobile controls that come with the framework. I have a login form where the system will authenticate the user so he/she can access certain restricted pages. In a standard ASP.NET website, I can use a session to store some flag after a user had logined, but I wonder can I do t...

Public Cell ID databases

Hi. I'm building a location aware mobile application which uses GPS, but i'd like to be able to add cell location too. The best thing I have found so far is to use Google Gears, which has a location API available, but my application is not web based. Are there any good public cell id databases that can be accessed from any kind of app...