I am looking for mobile apps that will help me be more productive and be all around more useful as a programmer. I have the Dropbox app and Awesome Note. As a programmer what apps or tools do you use on your IPhone/IPod that help you be more productive etc...? Ideally I am looking for SRC control, SSH tools, Web development-related apps...
What are the guidelines for displaying bars to represent signal strength? For example, I'm looking for something that says "5 bars = < -70db, 4 bars = -80 to -71, etc." Device / carrier agnostic would be great, however any recommendations are appreciated. ...
I want some tutorials about mobile app programming, I have a Nokia 7610, and a Nokia 6070, I want to know the appropriate tools to be, and how to use. I would also want some emulators for different kinds of mobiles. ...
Is there a way to send text messages for free or cheap with Perl? I see a lot of things on CPAN, but they all cost quite a bit. Is there anyway to send an email as a text message? ...
Suppose one wants to port a desktop app to a smartphone (which can mean write from scratch). How in your opinion should a mobile version relate to to the desktop one? In other words, what are the common features of mobile apps? I can say: short user interface (not time consuming) dense content, filtered in comparison with the desktop...
Hi everyone, I'm a budding developer. I am trying to modify the OS of typical china mobiles (http://www.chinavasion.com/product_info.php/pName/direktor-wifi-dual-sim-quadband-worldphone/) and make it as good as a nokia OS. Even many popular companies like Fly, Lava, Micromax and many others are also using the more or less similar OS. Bu...
I'm new to android development and as a pet project I wanted to try and connect to an bluetooth device using the HID profile using an android phone. The phone I'll be using is the vibrant and according to samsung it doesn't support the HID Profile ( http://ars.samsung.com/customer/usa/jsp/faqs/faqs_view_us.jsp?SITE_ID=22&PG_ID=2&...
How much does active GPS drain the battery? Without the overhead of the gps navigator software. s ay I want to sample the gps every 2 minutes and save it to a file. how much battery power will that cost me? Will I get 10% shorter life? 20%? ..? ...
hi, Lot of Mobile devices are coming with JVM with its OS(for example Nokia,sony ericcson).will all devices have same JVM? are all JVMs owned by sun micro systems? has device manufacturer paid for it to sun micro sytems? suppose If i want to creat my OWN JVM, I have to pay to sun micro sytems and get permission from SUN(ORACLE)? If it is...
I've been looking at using media queries on a site but bolt at the idea of downloading a huge file only for it take ages to download on a iphone over 3G. Is it possible using jquery to alter a filename (ie. add -iphone to background.jpg to make background-iphone.jpg) when the site is viewed on an iphone / netbook / ipad perhaps using me...
i wanna write a C program that runs on a mobile phone. Just for learning purpose. i think it's possible. but i dont know where to start with and the libraries that are available for it. i have also planned to write a game that runs on a mobile phone. help me to do it. thanks in advance. ...
Hi, I am programming a J2me application. I have the menu with an option of Help. For this screen I need to present a text that includes some bold words, italics etc... Which is the best option? My first solution: StringItem messageItem = new StringItem("",""); messageItem.setText("lorem ipsum etc etc..."); messageItem.setFont(Font.g...
I want to write a C application that runs on Symbian mobile OS. I don't know where to start. Is there any library files available or any SDK or IDE available for it? ...
Hi, I am writing an application that uses Zxing datamatrix decoder. It is ok for QR but not for datamatrix. It only decodes it if it is code-generated, absolutely clean. But if it is a captured-by-camera image it does not work well. Can anyone give me an alternative to this library (for J2me), plz? ...
Hello, I want to know how we can include CSS file in a website build using PHP for mobile application. I have a site which is build using HTML,PHP, and CSS. Now I have to make that site properly aligned in mobile phones. I already can view the content on mobile, but the css which I have included in the site is not getting added, and so ...
Hi, I'm writing a simple web application for mobile phones using JSF/Hibernate. I want to display images in a div but since the image size is quite big (400-500 px) I need to add a scroll to that div. It works fine on my PC browser but on mobile the scroll is not visible and only a part of the image is visible. Here is the code: <div c...
Hi all, I've been looking at mobile development frameworks including Rhodes, Titanium, and PhoneGap. As a large part of the application we're developing will also be integrated on the web (a game), we'd love to re-use code so as to not reinvent the wheel. Is there a best way to accomplish this? Is there a framework out there with whi...
hi, I could not find out OS of Lot of mobiles? for example MicroMax , Videocon Mobiles in India, they did not give that details in their specification, what os will it have? why they did not give that details? but JVMs are there...any help please? ...
Hey guys, I'm building a middleware that sits between a mobile phone and other remote systems to provide a generic service thru a thin software layer on the device/remote systems. Prior to choosing a particular mobile platform (OS + hardware) to use, I wanted to see my options as I don't want to be tied to any particular system like Andr...
In my case I made the div width 500px, but it automatically zoomed out when browsed in a mobilephone How's the magic done exactly,is it device specific? ...