mobile

What is the easiest way to convert existing PHP web application to mobile application?

Suppose I have developed one web portal in PHP/MySQL. I want to make it work in mobile also. What is the easiest way to do this? Can we use PHP with any mobile based mark up languages like WML or XHTML i.e. as we can use PHP with HTML in web applications used to view in normal web browsers? ...

Can iPhone auto redirect be disabled if user wants to view full site?

I am basically producing a simple, watered down, iPhone specific sites on a sub-domain of the original. I know of various auto redirects, like the htaccess & user agent scripts/rules that take the user straight to the iPhone specific site, but these scripts do not cater for someone who has come from the iPhone specific site that wants t...

Sources of PyS60's standard functions (particularly appuifw.query)

I need to give user ability to enter a time in form hh:mm:ss (with appropriate validation of course). And standard function appuifw.query(u'Label', 'time') works almost fine except that it allows to enter only hours and minutes (hh:mm). So I want to look though its source and write my own that enhances it in the stated manner. I've foun...

Developing a web site that can be accessed through mobile phone applications

Hi, I am developing a site that is tested only in Firefox and IE. Now I need to make the site accessible from mobile also. So I need to know whether I need to calculate the time needed to shift the site. Is this created as a new application or the same application is modified? When accessing stackoverflow.com from my mobile the design...

How to use GWT on mobile devices?

hi I have a fairly large web application developed with GWT (and EJB). However on mobile devices (like windows mobile, black berry and such) the GWT start page remains simply white. I'm using GWT 1.6 and also tried 1.7 but nothing helps. It seems that the java script isn't executing and also isn't the noscript tag. Do you know how to ...

Increasing Battery Life on Windows Mobile using GPS and Web updates

I have an app that runs on Windows Mobile and uses the GPS to update its location at various intervals. As expected, enabling the GPS chip uses more battery power. (no duh..) So currently my technique has been to cycle the the GPS on/off at approx. every 4 minutes to acquire the location, do something if things changed, and update its...

Integrated authentication in ASP.NET for a BlackBerry client

I'm developing an asp.net application which has Windows Authentication enabled(anonymous access disabled). I've created a sub directory called 'Mobile' containing the pages that need to be accessible from a black berry mobile device. These pages contain read only text and a few buttons for performing some actions(no AJAX, no javascript)....

Determine if the BlackBerry is in a "reboot pending" mode.

The following pertains to the RIM BlackBerry API. If your app has a memory resident portion and, optionally, a UI portion, and the user downloads an update OTA, the system will, correctly, tell the user that a device reboot is needed in order to fully install the application. The user then has the option to say "no thanks, I'll restar...

Mobile Development barrier to entry.

I'm looking at making some mobile apps in my spare time and I want to be able to put them up online for anyone to use (and probably open-source). I've worked with PyS60 a while ago and I really liked it. My problem is, I don't want to spend any money on these apps (I'm not planning on making money from them in any way) and for me to p...

Do all J2ME phones support JavaScript?

Are there any J2ME phones that don't support JavaScript? And are there generally limitations on the JavaScript that is supported / portions of the language that aren't implemented? ...

Draw transparent arcs, not images, in J2ME?

Hi all, I've been happily coding an opensource game for fun, but i just realized that Graphics.setColor() doesn't understand 0xAARRGGBB... I want to get a more and more transparent colour, in which I'd draw some arcs (discs). My goal was to make them shine though each other like in this image: http://kenai.com/projects/xplode (the logo ...

Are there any gotchas for the blackberry webapps that use cookies?

Hello, I know I am not giving many details... It is hard to get many details right now... but I am working on a web app, that has a login page, and stores if the user is logged in, in session data, that is linked to cookie data. It works on most devices and computers...but on the blackberries I have tried it on, it seems to lose the c...

Unhandled win32 exception occurred in runMidlet.exe

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...

Windows mobile application background problem

Hi There, I'm new mobile development and i'm working on an proof of concept application on Windows Mobile 6.0 Os and CF 2.0 I tried to design new backgorund for my application with the Adobe Photoshop, i found a tutorial on the codeproject.com about solving the windows mobile fullscreen problem and app image background issue with Pinvo...

sms receive on Port 0 of mobile

I am configuring my J2ME app to get an event from the push registry on receipt of an SMS. Would I be able to access the SMS message, before it reaches the inbox? I have read that messages sent to port0 of the mobile go directly to native inbox and we can't access it. Is there any way of diverting or even sniffing these messages so as ...

Where can I get started developing for the blackberry?

I was wondering if there were any convenient websites that offered tutorials on developing applications for the Blackberry platform. I've looked into it before, but always got stuck and couldn't find my way around one obstacle or another. Thanks for any suggetions. ...

web server sending command to a J2ME app

Can a J2ME app be triggered by a message from a remote web server. I want to perform a task at the client mobile phone as soon as the J2ME app running on it receives this message. I have read of HTTP connection, however what I understand about it is a client based protocol and the server will only reply to client requests. Any idea if ...

CSS media type: How to load CSS for mobile?

With this code: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="media/css/mobile.css" media="handheld"/> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="media/css/screen.css" media="screen"/> on my N78 the nokia's default browser and opera mini load screen.css instead of mobile.css. What am I missing? ...

sms aggregator implementation/application

What could be the use or application of SMS aggregators such as SMSLib or Kannel. Can I use them to send SMS's from my web server. In case they can send SMS's will those be sent on a GSM channel or GPRS channel. What would be the cost implications per sms on part of the customer and on part of my implementation process? ...

Given a list of words - what would be a good algorithm for word completion in java? Tradeoffs: Speed/efficiency/memory footprint

I'm exploring the hardware/software requirements (ultimate goal is mobile Java app) for a potential free/paid application. The application will start with this simple goal: Given a list of relevant words in a database, to be able to do word completion on a single string input. In other words I already know the contents of the database ...