I have a mobile site and I'd like to redirect users to the domain.mobi or mobile.subdomain (we have both setup) How do I determine a mobile browser Is it bad practice to have the mobile site on a different domain or subdomain? ...
I am planning to give mobile phone development a shot and was thinking about making some simple multiplayer games. I know latency over local wifi is probably fine but what are the issues with latency over GPRS/3G? I've searched and the best I've seen is someone saying it was 'high', without presenting any concrete numbers. I suppose l...
Good day all, I would like to be able to control the LED on an Android handset with finer grained control than is offered by the Notification class. Notifications allow one to change the rate of flashing; e.g. 300 milliseconds on, 1000 milliseconds off, but that's it. Essentially, I would like to turn the LED on and off at will at arb...
I want to develop an application for Nokia 3120 ( http://www.forum.nokia.com/devices/3120 ). from the previous link, It is said that the Developer Platform is "Series 40 Developer Platform 1.0" but from the "Series 40 Platform SDKs" page, no SDK Series 40 for Platform 1.0 is available, I can just see Series 40, Developer Platform 2.0 an...
Is it possible to make a cell phone transmit arbitrary radio waves at a certain frequency? Or does the Mobile OS only allow higher level access? If the answer is 'no' as I expect it is, is there any way to make a phone talk to another electronic device remotely without handshakes and the like? ...
Hi, Currently I am creating an application which uses a camera on mobile device (Android). Recently I watched some reviews of web apps and the concept looks promising for the future. Does anyone know whether it is possible to access the device hardware from web apps? Thanks! ...
Hi, do the mobile phones have an API function or something like that which could be called by a phone application to figure out whether the phone is currently charging or is on battery? I guess that if there is such a function at all, it would have a different name on each mobile OS, so if anybody could name those function names and the...
Hi, which API or library on which mobile OS is to be used when one needs to write a code to use the phone's IrDA to create the necessary impulses to remote control consumer electronics e.g. a HDD media player? Is maybe a certain mobile OS better suited for that kind of application than others? ...
What is the best OS, framework / library and Bluetooth stack for programming advanced mobile applications utilizing things like Bluetooth OBEX (OOP, DID, HID), IrDA (for remote-controlling consumer electronics), VGA-cam (as a movement sensor) as well as access to local databases or CSV-fles? What are the trade-offs between the OS (PalmO...
I'm looking for options to replace and old application running in a Psion Workabout mx handheld, developed in OPL. The handheld and the application (developed more than 10 years ago) are both working fine by now, but the device is discontinued, and each time is harder to find replacement parts for it. Then I started to look to the newer...
I want to make a simple web form where somenone can access from his mobile phone. Is it ok to user plain HTML and css? What doctype should i use? I want it to be accessible from all mobile phones. Thanks in advance. ...
I am using Java ME Platform SDK 3 to start developing Java Mobile application. But I couldn't run a sample application in the emulator. Every time it compiles successfully and an error occurs in the emulator with this message "An Unhandled win32 exception occured in runMidlet.exe [xxxx]". I don't know what to do. I also try to use Netbea...
Hey all, I need to write a mobile application (midlet) that will run on Nokia 6600 (SDK 60 2nd Edition CW). the application's goal is to detect power interruptions(whenever there is no more electrical power going into the battery) and log them. this mobile application will be comprised of two modules : 1) a J2ME module, mainly for in...
Hello everybody, We're porting some Java applications for the Samsung M220 (Telus). This is a MIDP 1.0 phone and we're stuck when trying to play sounds on it. As far as I know, MIDP 1.0 does not support our audio functions except system beeps. Is there any way to play sounds on the M220 (Telus Canada)? If you have any suggestion on wh...
Hi, I work in an environment were most people use Nokia (Symbian OS) and I am required to develop software that handles SMS inbox. I know Java (J2ME or MIDP) would be the best being platform-independent, but it doesn't support accessing the SMS inbox to read or create messages. so what is the next best language/platform to use, bearing...
I am going to be working on designing a mobile-phone friendly version of a client's website. I have done the research on how to build it, bu, as we have a few videos on it, I need to know what video formats would work best when a phone accesses the site. Any ideas? ...
I would like to focus on programming for mobile devices such as iPhone, Palm Pre and last Nokia series. I'm interested in usability, user interface design, memory management, application design... every single part of it. What books do you recommend for this topic? What are the must have books for mobile device programming? ...
How can i import address book information as CSV file from HTC mobile.. can anybody help me? ...
I'm coding a new website that will need users to enter their mobile phone number, the problem I'm facing is that I need to make sure that the user is in fact the owner of (or in this case, has access to) the mobile number. The solution I've come up with is, upon number submission I send them a SMS with a token and ask the user to enter ...
I want to get started with mobile development, but am not sure where to start. Which should I choose to start with, iPhone, Android, Blackberry, or Palm? iPhone seems to be pretty easy... Any advice or resources for someone just learning about mobile programming? Edit: I mean developing apps for the phone hardware. ...