When using the OAuth protocol, you need a secret string obtained from the service you want to delegate to. If you are doing this in a web app, you can simply store the secret in your data base or on the file system, but what is the best way to handle it in a mobile app (or a desktop app for that matter)? Storing the string in the app is...
Given that applications for mobile devices are expected to be small and simple, often with heavy computation off-loaded to a web-service. Is OO, over and above frameworks such as J2ME, relevant to mobile application programming ? Would application specific frameworks, say for client specific customization, not be an avoidable overhead...
i was wondering on how these databases which have over millions of records and millions of lookups per second soo fast. how are they optimised? are there any special servers hosting these databases? how are they scaled? ...
We are investigating using the Microsoft Mobile Sync Framework and I would like to put together a quick prototype. I am trying to pitch Mobile Sync Framework ofer another sync provider. I have zero experience with it so far, so I am looking for good examples of how to use it to sync backend relational database to SQL Server Compact dat...
I'm searching for open source libs for Streaming videos from mobile phones (from cameras on mobile phones) to servers. JAVA or C/C++ any one knows any? ...
Is anyone aware of any projects out there to port a version of the .NET framework to the Android platform, kind of like Mono.Touch? ...
Hi First let me start of saying I know absolutely nothing about c++ and I am really just more interested in getting this to work then learning c++(I got enough on my plate to learn). So basically I am trying to make a terms of service for my windows mobile 6 professional application but it seems I need to use c++ to do it. After hours ...
When I use <%= link_to image_tag("foo.png"), home_path %> and display it on my localhost on my iPhone, it's broken. When I inspect on with firebug, the src of the image is http://localhost:3000/images/foo.png thus causing it to break on my iPhone. When I use <img src="/images/foo.png" /> it displays fine on my iPhone. I am point...
I want to build a mobile web application that will require the users location. I want to avoid the need to create applications for separate mobile platforms and the growing sophistication of mobile browsers seems a way around that. Which mobile browsers will allow client JavaScript to use the phone's GPS or cell tower data? There have...
Hi, Kindly confirm the information below. a. Chinese mobile networks are blocking the useragent strings. b. The useragent send to the server are in different encoding for Chinese mobiles. Please let me know whether a or b is true and also pour in your experiences on the identifying the user agents in Chinese mobiles. Everywhere t...
I'm learning R and like the language very much because of its flexibility, but I want to know: Are there any ports of R for mobile devices? Where can I get them? ...
Hi, I have used a software name "my mobiler" which displays the screen of any windows mobile connected to desktop PC and allows the user to control the mobile from the desktop. Please let me know other similar software available in the market for series 60 or Series 40 Nokia mobiles. ...
Where to find open source examples of use of x264 (or any other h264 encoding lib) with directshow on windows mobile? (for example to record video from camera in the mobile phone where h264 is not supported by default into h264) ...
Hello everyone, I'm trying to get a page that will be seen like google mobile version does, but I can't figure out what's going on. IE, I'm still getting the page as if it will be accessing the real/normal version instead of the mobile version. I'm aware that I have to change the DTD AND set properly the mimeType, but doesn't have luck ...
I wanted to create J2ME application, in which the application should work only with the SIM card that was used during installation. On SIM card (GSM) change the application should now work. For achieving this, i thought of taking an signature of the simcard and save it in a persistent storage. On every start of the application the signa...
I've come across a few suggestions of "develop-once, deploy anywhere" mobile frameworks from other SO questions: http://www.mosync.com http://rhomobile.com http://phonegap.com I was wondering if there are other alternatives to these mobile frameworks. None of them have the ability to access call logs or hook into a phone's call events ...
I am looking to use/buy a OCR solution for my next iPhone app. Searching through the answers on this site didn't really help me a lot. Did anybody ever use ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine for iPhone? What interests me is how good is it (recognition) and how much does it cost? Thank you. ...
Is developing a website for a cellphone a totally different world? How would I detect whether a page is visited from computer or from a cellphone? I ask this because I see code like below: if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT']) && (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT'],'vnd.wap.wml')!==FALSE) && (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT'],'text ml') === FAL...
I'd like to write a JAVA program that connects my mobile with PC through a USB cable. How do I go about it?? ...
i want to have default text in a textfield which disappears when the textfield gets focus. similar to the google search box in firefox. also with java me is it possible to set a background image for a display. ...