mobile

Free cross-platform tools for web development

This question is geared towards a group of newly hired developers that need to adopt into a minimal learning curve, maximum development/programming/management effort. Some of the developers have senior level experience and will be mentoring the junior developers. My question is I would like a solid set of tools that can run on any system...

What parts of .NET aren't available in Monotouch for IPhone dev?

What are some key bindings that aren't included? ...

Widget Lifecycle?

Alot of phone OSes are starting to support W3C widgets, or something very similar. I am still a little confused about what exactly widgets can do? All the example widgets I have seen have just a 'index.html' page. Are widgets allowed to have multiple pages they can navigate between? Also do widgets have any mechanism to run in the ba...

Are there any push notification system in place for Androids?

There are currently push notifications available for iPhones, Palm Pre and Blackberries each provided by their respective manufacturer. However I have heard nothing for Androids (probably because google does not actually sell the phones themselves. Are there any solutions out there at all? ...

Is 480px screen width a legitimate design target for mobile web applications in late 2009?

I am working on a web application that will target the modern browsers or recent smartphones. When I look at the different resolutions, I see 480 a lot. For example: 480x320 is used by the iPhone and Blackberry Bold 9000. This appears to be a standard called Half VGA (HVGA), which has a 3:2 aspect ratio and half the pixels of VGA. 4...

How to make a Google Maps API (.js) file a part of a widget for Mobiles

Hello There. I would like to create a Web App for device. For that I would have some script being stored on device, instead of downloading them all time when I start application. As far as I saw including a GoogleMaps API makes some additional request for javascript files. Is there any way of having all of them taken directly from local...

How to turn off dragable behaviour on Google Maps V2 (javascript)

Hello Experts! I'm trying to set up a Google Maps on device and on top of it show some simple buttons. But events that I attach to those buttons seems to interferee somehow with map drag functionaliy. Basically drag completly doesnt work and also gives me this button not workin. I really dont care about this drag (I dont need it) - but ...

Rhomobile supports graphics?

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

mobile applications using richfaces

Hi, is it possible to use mobile applications using Rich-faces 3.3? i know both ice-faces and prime-faces(it has a components called touch-faces) support mobile developments. if yes is there examples or information available on internet? Thanks Soma ...

Detect a smart card

I'm writing a Java ME app and I'd like to determine if a smart card is connected. The JCRMI interface ( http://java.sun.com/javame/reference/apis/jsr177/ ) defines this connection, but near as I can tell you need to have a specific application address to create the connection. The spec says the Connection.open url must be "jcrmi:"[slot...

How do I combine @font-face and @media declarations?

I'd like to build a common typography stylesheet with a very small number of selectors. As such, I'd far prefer to use @media sections for the various versions rather than create different files, each with only a few lines of content. I'd also like to add some @font-face declarations, but I'd prefer not to force mobile users to download...

how can I fix the jumpiness problem on a moving <LI> stream jQTouch mobile web app (iPhone JavaScript)

I've got a mobile Web app built with jQTouch mobile web app framework, but when I try to add dynamic <LI> elements the theme starts jumping around like crazy. Includes a short JavaScript sample program that replicates the issue. I posted this issue on the jqtouch Google Code ticket system Issue 134: slidedown prepends LI but causes th...

Determine if a mobile browser is CSS and javascript capable or not...

I'm designing a mobile site, and basically I want two versions. One will be javascript and css intensive, while another will be for older phones. Very simple xhtml. Any way to auto-redirect depending on the browser's capabilities? ...

Mobile Java Applet?

Is there any mobile platform that allows me to run Java Applets? In absence of browser integration, at least Java SE capabilities. I've heard of a mobile device capable of running Windows XP - that would probably include support for Java SE and applets; does any one have any hands-on experience with such a device? How well does it perfor...

how do you detect a weak wireless signal from a windows mobile 6 app?

I am using a Windows Mobile 6 based hand held device. I there a way to detect low or no wireless signal activity? Since I cannot detect this, my application is getting exceptions and ultimately runs out of threads. ...

sdf files/database... Is there an efficient way to export to csv

I'm working on a mobile device with a sdf database. I'm wondering if there's a quick easy way to export the table to CSV. Currently the c++ application opens the tables, and walks through it one record at a time and one field at a time, appending to a file. It's ugly and slow and predates my employment. I'm wondering if there is a bet...

Why is my Bundle inside android.os.Message being reset ?

In an Activity, I have some snippet of code that fires off a Message: Message m = _handler.obtainMessage( UPDATE_PROGRESS ); Bundle bundle = new Bundle(); bundle.putInt( BUNDLE_KEY, 50 ); m.setData( bundle ); Log.d( LOG_TAG, "value " + bundle.getInt( BUNDLE_KEY, 0 ) ); // prints 50 Log.d( ...

Interpreted Languages For Mobile Platforms

I'm starting this community wiki to get all the interpreted languages that can be embedded, but let's begin: Windows CE Perl Ruby Python Palm OS Python iPod Python Now if I missed some language, please post and remember to put the link. Thanks. ...

Privileged operations in netbeans mobility

I'm writing a Java ME app that will use privileged operations such as messaging. By default the user is prompted to confirm each of these operations, but I would like to run it as a background service. Documentation says to request permission in the jad file, I have done so and presume it will work on a device. However I would like to...

HTML5 <video> element on Android

Hi, According to: http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.0-highlights.html Android 2.0 should support the HTML5 video element. I haven't been able to get this to work using a Motorola Droid, and haven't been able to successfully view a video on any of the HTML5 video example pages out there. Since there currently isn't support for...