mobile

Mobile Device emulator cannot access localhost

I am using Windows Mobile 6 Professional Emulator and Windows Mobile Device Center. I connected and cradled the emulator to my computer. I am trying to connect from the browser of the emulator to a webservice that is deployed in the IIS of my computer (same machine where the emulator is installed). If I connect my computer to the intern...

periodically update server from J2ME application

I'm writing a J2ME application that periodically updates server. how do i implement the functionality using J2ME? how do i run application on phone at startup and how do i keep it running?. I am planning to deploy the application it on symbian platform ...

Mobile WebKit browsers - setTimeout and inactive pages

I have a question regarding how Mobile WebKit browsers (ie Mobile Safari and Android browser) handle setTimeout function when the page becomes inactive and is reactivated again. Let's assume the page becomes inactive (ie the phone screen goes to 'sleep' / we open another application / we open another webpage), and the setTimeout functio...

HTML form to JSON without modern libraries

Does anyone know of a simple javascript library that serializes a form DOM object to JSON? I know jQuery has the serialize method but since I am writing an app for IE mobile, I can't use any of the new fancy libraries, must be oldschool simple javascript, as light as possible. Cheers ...

Mobile security solutions

What are the mobile handset security solutions used by you / your organization. What are the pro's and cons of usage of these solution - and how far have you been successful in implementing these - were there any loopholes / issues faced in using them?. In general, can you suggest a set of guidelines to watch for when going for going ...

Google Analytics tacking multiples domain mobile web app

Hi, I want tracking mobile web application that it is accessed from multiple domains with one google analytics account. I have found some information to do in tradicional web but not in mobile web. Could i change this code in snippet1? if (HttpContext.Current.Request.Url != null) { url.Append("&utmp=").Append(HttpUtility.UrlEncod...

Cutting edge mobile / ubiquitous / pervasive applications?

I am interested in the state of the art with respect to mobile, ubiquitous and pervasive computing. For example, uses of ubiquitous computing in healthcare, business, logistics, context aware mobile business applications, ad-hoc peer-2-peer etc. What applications have you seen, worked on or maybe read about in research papers that you c...

Photo uploading via email

I'd like to be able to upload photos via email, which I've seen (and used) on eat.ly and meetups.jquery.com but I haven't been able to work out how to do this, does anyone have a solution? Essentially I believe the process should be something like this: 1) user adds picture to email on mobile device then send to a specific email address...

how to re-factor a web site for 3G?

Hello everyone, I have a traditional web site which serves users from desktop computer browsers. I am using Microsoft technologies, like ASP.Net, C#, .Net, SQL Server 2008, IIS and Windows Server 2008. Nowadays, more and more users are using 3G mobile phones, and I am wondering from software perspective, how to add new features to my w...

Sending SMS using Java ME application

I want to a Java ME application that transfers any SMS received to a PC using bluetooth. The PC can then direct the Java ME application via bluetooth to send a response SMS. Is there library available for this architecture or I have to design it myself? Is this approach correct or a better one exists? I want to use bluetooth as then I wi...

Trigger J2ME application when GPS coordinates change

I need to know, how to trigger or open J2ME application when GPS coordinates changes ...

How to determine location of user/phone using plain SMS ?

how to know user location via sms from server without any applications installed in mobile ...

Interesting blogs about developing for Android

I became interested about developing applications for Android. Which blogs worth reading? ...

Windows Mobile camera capture issue with DirectShow

I wrote a C# application that uses DirectShow to allow users to take photos with the camera attached to a Windows Mobile 6 phone. The problem I spotted out is that the preview functionality stops working after a period of not using it. How could I determine what's causing this ? Is there a timeout in Windows registry that tells how mu...

.NET Compact Framework app that will run on both Professional and Standard

Is there any guidance on creating apps that will run on both professional (touch-screen) and standard (non-touch-screen) devices. I have a simple application that is mostly text and buttons that in theory should be able to run on both professional and standard devices with little if any modification. It seems the IDE wants to make this...

Windows mobile UI: Is a messagebox appropriate to display information?

I have a list of items in a listview and when the user double-clicks an item, I display a messagebox with the contact's name and address. My boss doesn;t like it because he thinks this violate some UI design principle for Windows Mobile devices. I can't find anything that prohibits this. He is thinking that it has something to do with ...

iPad iPhone scale background images

Just wondering if anyone else has experienced the iPad/iPhone scaling their background images down to fit the view port. In my case, I'm swapping out background images via javascript, and the new background images are super wide to fit large displays. However, the iPad is scaling down the background images that are added to the DOM via ...

Can i have list of Java enabled mobile devices?

Hi All, I want to find out list of mobile devices in the world on which I can run J2ME applications. Thanks, Rajnikant ...

Receiving server broadcast on mobile in real time

I have to write a simple mobile application that is able to receive broadcast from a server, connected using GPRS, over a secure SSL connection. The amount of data the mobile needs to receive is very small (a string of about 100 characters length for a single broadcast and maximum 10 broadcasts per minute). I need to display it on scr...

Connecting 2 Java Me applications- One launching the another

Is there a way to launch one Java ME Midlet from another? Both of them would be running on CLDC Phones. What we are planning is that there's one main midlet that will do maximum of the work and there's a smaller midlet which will be launched based on certain condition in the main midlet. ...