mobile

Most popular mobile platform to develop on?

This question may not directly relate to programming. I have noticed that the technology of today has gone mobile. I want to go mobile with it. What is the most popular mobile OS?(excluding iPhone OS. Sorry, I don't have a Mac to develop on) Some choices could be BlackBerry OS, Windows Phone, Symbian OS, Android OS, etc. I want to make a...

Recommended mobile (both application and web) development blogs?

I am looking for mobile development blogs that you can recommend. Specifically, I would to know about blogs on mobile application development (like Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, J2ME etc) and also blogs about mobile web development. I havent been able to find this answered before here, hence the question. PS: Any recommendations for blog...

Mobile phone protocols

What are the different protocols available for communicating between web and a mobile phone? ...

JavaScript Error line 1 <ANYJAVASCRIPFILE.JS> SyntaxError: Parse error IN Iphone mobile safari

Hi, I keep getting this error when I run my web app (asp.net mvc) in the mobile safari (ITouch) JavaScript Error line 1 SyntaxError: Parse error JavaScript Error line 1 SyntaxError: Parse error I have no problem running this in any other browser (including safari). I suspect this is something to do with mobile safari handling...

mobile devices operating systems

what are the operating systems which run on mobile devices?On which language are these developed? ...

Guidelines for LBS Mobile application development

i need some help!, i am planning to develop such LBS Mobile Application which find nearest things based on gps data from mobile. 1.what are the best free and (preferably) open source technologies for development?. 2.What programming language to use for development of such application?. 3.what are the points to be considered? I need t...

Can Apache configuration check cookies?

My situation: We have a mobile version of our website, and want to start redirecting mobile users to it. The plan is to do this in Apache httpd.conf or .htaccess, using something like this: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (iPhone|Blackberry|...) RewriteRule (.*) mobile/$1 However we want there to be a way for users t...

Create Android Applications using Xcode?

Hi, I'm using Xcode for a while, and I'd like to start developing Android Applications. However, the SDK is for Eclipse. I personally don't like Eclipse, because of the UI and it starts to suck on my iMac. I was wondering if it is possible to create Android Applications with the Xcode Tools so I can stay with my old friend Xcode (and ma...

DMProcessConfigXML fails while loading dlls on the windows mobile 6.5.

What I want to do is uninstall my program on the device Programmatically. So I trying to use DMProcessConfigXML() as this site It seems to work well on the emulator, but it didn't work on my device. Application goes exit after calling DMProcessConfigXML() without return result code. This is a part of code. after line 2, program is ter...

Blogs to follow for programmers working on Telecom domain (Mobile/Smart Phones especially)

One per post will be great! ...

Develop applications to mobiles

Hi there, I have very easy question, but I simply have any idea of the answer. I have developed a small mobile-application using java, for my nokia. The problem is that when installed on my samsung the application simply crashed. Then I tried on my other nokia but different model, and I didn't got the normal behavior. So my question i...

What is the HTTP_PROFILE browser header and how is it used?

I've just come across the HTTP_PROFILE header that seems to be used by mobile browsers to point to an .xml document describing the device's capabilities. Doing a Google search doesn't turn up any definitive resources on what this is and how it should be used, can anyone point me to something along the lines of a spec/W3C standard? ...

Form Closing event

Hi all, I have a smartdevice project targeting windows mobile 6. In the top right corner is an X (provided by the controlbox). i have an event on the form_closing that i was hoping would fire when the cross is clicked. But it doesnt :-( Does anyone know why this event is not firing ??? Thanks :-) John ...

Background task in mobile phone to access a secure element and a web server

Is it possible in a GSM mobile phone OS (e.g. Android, Win Mo, Symbian, etc.) to have some kind of background task or application able to exchange data at the same time with a web server and a secure element of the mobile? The purpose if for the web server to be able to push APDUs to the secure element (an retrieve response APDUs) witho...

Is there a nice javascript dialog box for JQuery that works with mobile?

Mobile browsers. Jquery dialog alert box. I don't want to use alert() because it looks ugly in web browsers. I'm building a website for BOTH mobile and web, so I need a dialog box that can work on both. ...

Facebook Connect - Mobile

I am currently in the process of creating a mobile version of my web app. The app is being developed with Facebook's PHP Client Library. The issue: I am using the following mobile url to allow users to log in using the mobile devices: http://m.facebook.com/tos.php?api_key=APIKEY&amp;v=1.0&amp;next=http%3A%2F%2Ftweelay.net%2Fm.php&amp;...

Can the location of a WiFi access point be triangulated with the following data?

Let's say I have 3 or more peers connected to the same WiFi Access Point. If they all give me: - latitude - longitude - their signal level (dBm) in respect to the same WiFi Is this enough data to get the approximate location of the access point? ...

Is it OK , from a product perspective, to write an iPhone app completely in WebView?

This just saves time. Since I already have a web applciation. I can just stick it inside a webview. The question is: Does it turn off many users? How many users will be disgusted that the entire iPhone app is written in WebView? ...

Work with protocol OAuth without browser?

I am a developer a large social network. Does the protocol OAuth without browser? I plan to write desktop and mobile applications that can not use your browser to get access_token. It worries me step for get Access_token, I can not understand how to implement it. Give examples of code if possible ... ...

InvalidCastException when calling COM interface on Windows Mobile.

InvalidCastException when calling COM interface on Windows Mobile. I am trying to build a DirectShow source filter on Windows Mobile 5 based on the Generic Sample Source Filter (GSSF) sample from DirectShowLib. It uses C# configuration and callback functions with a C++ DirectShow filter. I have this working in .Net CF on Windows XP but ...