mobile

Are there any established standard practices for video on the web while supporting mobile?

Seeing as how Flash Video isn't well supported in the mobile world, are there any best practices for embedding video on a website ensuring that it can accessed by as many devices as possible? (short of creating a native app like the ted / you tube apps) ...

How to make a GUI that works on all window mobile phones?

Hi Up to now I been using the pda emulator in visual studios 2008 (I am using windows mobile 6.1 professional sdk). So I just dragged and dropped most of my GUI components into the form. In one instance I made a panel then in this panel I dynamically generated labels in it with certain location positions. I then put it on my Hp PAQ 11...

Handheld media type in css vs another domain or subdomain for mobile enabled site?

While Handheld option is available in CSS then why some people use different subdomain and make different site for mobile? ...

Can a blackberry app access the internet without restrictions?

I'm about to develop an application for blackberry that transport some data through a native socket connection to a server. This can be done easily in Java but I was told the issue with this approach is that most blackberries have some sort of restricted internet access and that the socket connection would not work. Is this true? Typic...

File Sync Remotely using HTTP

Hi all, We are trying to create a POC for File Synchronization using MSF. The source is a windows based mobile device and the destination is Remote based http server. we have searched in the net for a sample but we are able to get sample which uses file sync (which happens Internally). Is there any online materials available or sample co...

.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...

Presentation technology for multiple devices

Our application is supposed to serve multiple devices, from simple to smart-phones, IPhones, touch-screens to normal browsers. Application is layered, so we can reuse the business and persistence layer. However, we would like to program single presentation layer as well. I know for example that ASP .NET generates different html output ...

PLaying video files - options for mobile phones

What formats are supported by which mobile phones? I know the iPhone does not support .flv, but I was wondering if Symbian OS and windows Mobile OS support .flv or any other streaming video format. I'm currently developing a mobile site, and I need to display video for mobile for the big three: iPhone Symbian Windows Mobile What are...

What is the compiler of Samsung Bada?

Hello, Recently Samsung presented Bada platform for mobile phone. http://developer.bada.com/apis/index.do I can find developer materials from the above web page but, I can't find how can I compile it and what is the compiler? This is C++ based framework and Samsung said Bada is operating system agnostic. In this case, how application...

Securing private keys against brute force attacks on mobile devices

I have a mobile application where I would like to store private keys securely. The security requirement implies that it should be very hard for attackers to be able to obtain the private key even if they had unlimited access to the mobile device. In order to achieve this level of security, the application employs symmetric cryptography w...

API for Sending SMS to Mobile Phones from Website

I'd like to include user validation in my web app, to prevent the user from creating many accounts. For example, when a new user signs up, they must enter a mobile phone number, receive an SMS, then enter a confirmation code. Is there a service or API out there that automates/simplifies this process? Thanks! ...

Use sqlite database from Android app resources

Hi everyone! I've started Android programming recently so bear with me :) I develop an app which has all of its content stored in database.sql file. I've implemented a subclass of SQLiteOpenHelper and added database.sql to my project assets. public class DBHelper extends SQLiteOpenHelper { public DBHelper (Context ctx) { super(ctx, ...

netstat FIN_WAIT1 over 3G

Our company has a mobile app with clients connecting via sockets through AT&T's 3G towers in San Francisco. Lately I've been noticing some sockets never close - FIN_WAIT1 and TIME_WAIT is common. I've even seen sockets open > 24 hours. And of course the client's are not actually in the app as we've not received updates from them. Is...

A cellphone emulator

Hi. I want to run a cellphone emulator on Ubuntu. I am not picky about any particular cellphone as I am not using it for mobile development instead just to run a small software to generate keys for my personal purpose; as the software is not compatible for ubuntu but is present for cellphones. Do let me know a suitable emulator source....

Drawing controls with GDI on Compact Framework

I need to draw a textbox in a Compact Framework app, but using directly a Graphics object. I've found the Control.DrawToBitmap method, which I could use for drawing with GDI, but it's not available on Compact Framework. Any hints? ...

Which mobile os is easy to program with?

I want to learn some mobile stuff, and programming interesting things myself on mobile phones, what is popular and easy-to-use mobile operating system? ...

How to send a text message to mobile phone via bluetooth in Java?

Similar to this question. I have been tasked to develop an application using Java to send message strings from my WinXP PC to a nearby mobile phone, using only Bluetooth. I have found a free Java Bluetooth library (Bluecove) to work with, but it seems that it might not support OBEX under Windows, which as I read is necessary to perform...

Wordpress Mobile Version

I'm interested in creating an alternate version of a Wordpress site, specifically tailored for mobile devices. (We're talking about iPhones in particular, but something more generic would be cool, too.) My thinking on this right now is that I'll need to figure out how to serve the content from one Wordpress installation to two different...

Having problems connection to Samsung Mobile Innovator

Hi I am new to all this and I tried to connect to one of the phones. I choose a Windows mobile phone and hit start, I passed all the tests and it started to download the java file. Once it loads up the lab software though it dies I get this error Connection Error Incompatible software version installed on the phone, please upgrade it ...

Has anyone gotten Oracle Lite to run on Windows Mobile 6.1 client

The title pretty much says it all. I'm trying to run an Oracle Lite application using a Windows Mobile 6.1 device. I keep getting "invalid database or password" errors. (It's not the password...) The device I'm using requires 6.1, so I haven't been able to try with 5.0 or 6.0. Has anyone gotten this combination to work? If so HOW? ...