Mobile detection using Javascript
Is there a way to detect mobile devices using Javascript? Also, I researched that there are such an XML which contains user-agents that could help to identify the mobile handsets. Many thanks. -V2 ...
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Is it possible to convert web application to mobile application?
I am very new to mobile development. Is a web application can be converted to mobile application (such that it can be accessible in mobile device)? (or) Do we have to be develop separately for mobile environment? ...
Detect Finger Swipe in .Net Compact Framework
Looking for a way to detect finger gestures in my Windows Mobile applications. Main goal: detect when user gestures a left or right swipe across the screen. Similar to the swipe motion used to unlock an iPhone. ...
Samsung WiTu (i900/Omnia) mobile phone program
I want to write a simple C# program that will be activated on incoming call to display a text on the phone screen. Just a simple C# program activated by an incoming call. Any ideas how I can get started? ...
Anything like DPAPI available for .NET Compact Framework or Windows Mobile?
I need a way to protect a private key on a mobile device. I know in "Writing Secure Code" chapter "Protecting Secret Data" says "Windows CE" cannot be used in secure environments. But the book is many years old now, 2003. Is this still the case? Tell me it ain't so. There has to be a way to secure a private key today. ...
Android XML whitepaper
I am looking for resources concerning Android's use of XML - not how to's, but technical articles or whitepapers concerning the XML architecture in Android. Why were things designed the way they were, what considerations were made - all specific to the XML part. If this is not available, I'm also interested in general use of XML in mobi...
What is the most "fun" mobile platform to develop for today?
What is the most fun/hard/easy mobile platform to develop for today? I had a SonyEricsson P800 running Symbian OS a long time ago and did some Java applications on it. I felt that JavaME was so limited at that time, but it was maybe 5 years ago. Please, share your experiences; I need an update. ...
Mobile Web Development ?
Hi - I have an existing website that I need to develop a small portion of for mobile devices. For reasons that are not in the scope of this entry - I am using the Microsoft platform and tools - VS2008, ASP.Net, VB.net, .Net AJAX Framework, jquery. I have 2 questions: What is the best page size (Height and Width - mostly width) to m...
Is it possible to detect a mobile browser's GPS location?
I am making a web site targeted at mobile phones and would like to get the user's current GPS latitude/longitude when they visit my default page so I can show them results in their area. Is this possible using ASP.NET? See Also Get position data from mobile browser ...
Developing mobile web applications
What's the most well maintained and recommended framework to use with .net when developing mobile web applications? ...
Does anyone know how to open a JSR-82 application in Windows Vista?
I have a host device that connects to anything running JSR-82. The problem is that I don't have a mobile device that runs JSR-82 applications. I wish I could simply connect to my host device within windows. Is this possible? (I am currently running Vista x64) ...
Pocket IE throws ODBC error but desktop browsers do not.
I have a fairly simple CRUD web application (C#/ASP.NET) that runs fine in Firefox, IE7, and Chrome. (I'm accessing and testing the application on our development server.) When I connect to the dev site via a Pocket PC device and go through the exact same steps, I get an ODBC error. Unfortunately, when I step through the code (once agai...
Blackberry Font-Family
I am currently making a mobile version of our application and I am trying to find a resource that lists out what fonts the Blackberry devices support. I search around on the Blackberry development site and forums but have not had much luck. So far, any font I specify using CSS does not appear to be working, so any help would be appreci...
Blackberry Bold CSS
I was reviewing the CSS docs for version 4.6 and saw this in the doc: "In BlackBerry Device Software version 4.6, the BlackBerry Browser provides full support for CSS 2.1, excluding pseudo-elements and dynamic pseudo-classes, system fonts, and generated content." I am running the 4.6.0.190 emulator for the bold and I cannot get any padd...
Smartphone Recommendations
I am looking at getting a smart-phone most likely from at&t(current provider) and I am wanting to have the freedom of being able to program small apps for it. I do not want an iPhone but am open to almost any of the others. Do you have any recommendations for which smart-phones are easily programmable or most suited to being programmed...
Connect Bluetooth device to an unknown device
Is it possible to connect a Bluetooth device to an unknown device? I thought all Bluetooth devices had to be paired with another Bluetooth device before they could be used together. Someone mentioned a possible application where a Bluetooth device (most likely a Windows Mobile phone as the iPhone SDK doesn't support Bluetooth connectio...
How to start develop for chinese mobile phones based on nucleus RTOS? (MTK)
I've noticed that chinese mobile phones became very popular, perhaps because of their very reasonable price and many modern features (touch screens, advanced multimedia, double sim cards etc). I'm wondering if there's any way to develop custom solutions for this handsets as independent developer? How to obtain a toolkit and documentati...
Is it possible to access some sort of system error log on S60 devices?
Hi, this my first shot at this awesome new (to me) programmers site, I hope someone is capable of enlightening me some :) Does anyone know if it is is possible to access some sort of error log on s60 devices? The only thing i can find that is somewhat related is a log of recent send/received packets and calls... The emulator is not a op...
Reading SMS messages off Windows Mobile phone connected via ActiveSync?
I have a project I'm working on that requires our WPF application read SMS messages off of a user's connected Windows Mobile phone so we can display recent ones, etc. I've had little luck with any of the libraries I've found. Most promising seemed to be OpenNETCF.Desktop.Communications but ultimately it seems like I won't be able to do ...
Python/Ruby as mobile OS
I was wondering why smartphone/mobile device OSs are not written to allow dynamic languages as the language of choice? iPhone uses Objective-C, Google Android uses Java, Windows Mobile uses any manner of .NET language. What would be the reasoning behind a mobile OS being written in Python, Ruby, or any other dynamic language? I unders...