mobile-phones

Android app components - a word of advice needed

I am a complete newbie to Android development; Basically, I am about to write an application, that will let the user to take photo, which (with a bunch of extra data) will be submitted to the remote webservice. So I'm guessing I will need: A Photo-taking application (Activity) that will gather all the extra data and put in the SQLite...

Tools for making a site design mobile phone friendly

What tools helps designing sites which would be mobile phone friendly ? Something that would product the right CSS, the right html, etc ...

best practice for developing webpage for mobile phone

Hello, I would like to know how I can make a webpage that will look good in most mobile phones. For making normal webpages, I use dreamweaver cs3. I don´t really want to use emulators unless I have too. Can I not just center everything in the middle, with auto margins on both sides. When I am looking at the pages that I have made sofar...

How to Trigger a phone call when clicking a link in a web page on mobile phone

Hi SO, I need to build a web page for mobile device. There's only one thing I still haven't figured out: how can I trigger a phone call through the clic of an image or text. Is there a special url I could enter like the mailto: tag for emails ? Device specific solution are envisagable. I know Iphone automatically recognise phone num...

How do two android applications talk to each other?

Guys What is the general communication architecture for two android applications? Case 1: I have two android applications, a) One is a server that waits for client request, process the request( read data from some sqlite db) and return the results to the client. This server application runs on its own independent android phone. b) ...

Strategy for syncing data with mobile phones?

We built a .NET server application that hosts data (contacts, email, etc.). We'd like to sync our data to mobile devices: iPhone, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, etc. How should we go about doing this? Build several mobile apps, one for each platform (e.g. app for iPhone, app for Blackberry, etc.), each app syncs with our server. License ...

Java for J2ME mobile development

I am planning to start some Java mobile phone development. I downloaded the wireless toolkit, but it asks for the Java SE SDK. I have got to this page - http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index_jdk5.jsp. Is a JDK the smae as an SDK? what do they stand for? On the page I think I will need to download the "JDK 5.0 with Java EE". What doe...

Rhomobile supports graphics?

Does the rhomobile support drawing with 2-d(3-d) graphics or is the graphic capabilities limited to static images? ...

Getting the type of mobile phone

Is there a way to get the type of mobile Phone when a phone connects to a mobi site using PHP? ...

JSR 177 Support on Blackberry

I have been trying to interact with SIM application through APDU exchanges. For exchanging APDUs, I had to create an APDUConnection through Connector.open() API, but this particular API throws up an IO exception stating "JSR 177 is not supported on this platform", I dont know whether this happens because I test this on simulator or wheth...

development symbian application for cellulars that has GPS

hey i want to develop symbian application that uses the GPS of the cellulars. for which version of symbian do i need to develop and which phones does it supported ? ...

Windows Mobile API - Find out which phone i'm running

Hi, i'm developing applications for WM smartphones, such as motorola Q and the such. Is there any way to find in my code which phone i'm running on? Thanks, Dan ...

Is there a way to develop new JSR's for Java ME enabled devices?

Hi there, I have a MIDP2.0 mobile device with no support for a specific JSR (it's JSR 180 SIP API for J2ME). Sun's website says there's a reference implementation but it seems it's already removed. The question is, can I develop JSR 180 and deploy it to the device, so applications can use it? Or should it be in the device firmware (ob...

Is there software or code to alter USB power output

I had a look at this and this but no one sounded particularly sure of their ideas and I'm kind of after a different thing anyway. I want to hook my usb power cables (red and black) up to my phone so I don't have to use a battery (the battery is dead anyway and this is just an experiment). The problem is that USB standards ensure that a m...

Howto know the handset supports youtube vdo?

I have processed a UAProf that tell me a lot of information about the mobile phone. But which field tell about youtube vdo (3GP over RTSP) supporting? Any one know? ...

Measuring "real" phone signal strength on a mobile phone

I want to programmatically measure the phone signal strength in a mobile phone. I don't actually care about the mobile phone or the programming environment: It can be based on android or windows mobile or even J2ME and can be from any manufacturer (please no iPhone). However, it needs to be a real, commercial mobile phone and not a speci...

What are my options for developing a method to allow users to upload photos and video to my website from a mobile device

I want to allow users of my website to upload photos and video from their mobile phone. I have a web-based upload page (built using Flash) that posts uploads to a PHP script running on an Apache web server in Amazon EC2 cloud. I would like to use the same server to receive files uploaded by mobile. The 3 options as I see it are - (coul...

Looking for resources about asp.net development for mobile phones

I'm looking for any kind of resources about the development of ASP.NET (MVC) web applications for mobile phones (especially phones with webkit-based browsers). As an example, I know about the jQTouch javascript-framework which is mainly targeted at iPhone development. Are there any other frameworks, articles, best-practices, etc. which...

.Net and mobile devices list

Hello guys. I need to develop an application for mobile devices. I'm good in .Net and have no time/willing/money to learn any other libraries/frameworks. So I decided to create my application using .Net CF (is it good choice?). What most popular devices are capable to run .Net CF application these days? I know only Windows Mobile devic...

form builders for mobile devices

hi all, We're going to build survey apps for rural development(in India) using cellphones, including some Nokia and Android devices. For building and capturing user info, we're looking at OpenXdata( which is open source J2ME solution) and exZact, (which works on iPhone/iPod Touch). We're also looking at ODK. What tools/framework have ...