mobile

Mobile Safari shows no scrollbars on textarea

Hello, I get no visible scrollbars on the y axis with the following class .bodyTextBox { height: 150px; width: 225px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: scroll; padding: 10px; } while every other browser works fine. Any info is very much appreciated. ...

Mobile Specific Site Development. Where to start?

I'm beginning the process of learning the ins and outs of developing sites for mobile web browsers. Are there any good resources/communities online that discuss mobile specific site development issues? My initial understanding is that to cover different phones you need to build one site that is enabled for browsers with the webkit engi...

Editing a User's Likes on Facebook

I've been looking at the Facebook API to find some way to edit a user's Likes (that is, add or remove items from https://graph.facebook.com/me/likes/). The API doesn't say anything about it specifically, but does say this: You can publish to the Facebook graph by issuing HTTP POST requests to the appropriate connection URLs above. ...

Android 2.1 address bar causes change in viewport dimensions

Hi, I have a page that has a 100% width and height div in it (all surrounding elements are sized accordingly so that it does actually achieve 100% width and height). Below that div I have a second div with a fixed height. In mobile safari and blackberry everything is fine, when the page loads the dimensions are applied correctly (the t...

How to apply scrollbar to windows mobile application using c#.net,windowsce,.net3.5 framework,windows mobile 6 proffesional

How to apply scrollbar to windows mobile application.using .net compact framewrk,and windows mobile 6 profesional ...

Mobile Silverlight Applications

Hi, Have You got any tutorials, books, any good resources to start creating mobile games using silverlight ? Maybe any good resource on writing 2d games in silverlight for pc? Ay way do You think that its worth learning it or any other technology would be better and have probably shinier future ? ...

Android ROM Development. What does it take?

Hi. I have been developing android apps out of hobby and fun. I want to get more serious about android development. One particular thing that I am very keen on doing (or atleast trying my hand at) is andoroid ROM development for specific handsets. Like, maybe outdated HTC Touch. (Elf/Elfin). I am at a loss to understand, what does it t...

Calling my web service from a phone

I've got a website which contains the profile of users. I am now working on a mobile app and I would like to access the profile details from via the app. My idea is to simply create a webservice which returns the relevant fields (some of which might be password protected). How can I ensure that the web service is being request only by my...

How to add video into a webpage for mobile web browsers.

Our company is making a mobile version of our website. We have several product videos we want to show on the mobile version. When I try to use <a href="video.wmv">video</a> I get sound playing but a black screen on my htc incredible android os phone. I'm thinking that the video is playing but in a different browser window. I need ...

Can C++ and C# be used for applications for iPhone

Hi all Can I write applications for iPhone in C++ or C#? Where can I find simulators for iPhone for testing my apps. How to write them? ...

Generating different randoms valid for a day on different independent devices?

Let me describe the system. There are several mobile devices, each independent from each other, and they are generating content for the same record id. I want to avoid generating the same content for the same record on different devices, for this I though I would use a random and make it so too cluster the content pool based on these ran...

Ability to Choose From Multiple SQLite DBs for Iphone Application

I am working on the design and implementation of an iPhone application ( a newbie, but I am getting the hang of it) where a person can download specific contact information about teachers based on their majors. The information is currently on different edu websites. And I have exported the information into SQLite databases. Is it possib...

How to check browser for touchstart support using JS/jQuery?

In an attempt to follow best practices, we're trying to use the proper JavaScript/jQuery events according to what device you are using. For example, we're building a mobile site that has an tag that will have an onclick or touch event. In the case of an iPhone, we'd like to use the "touchstart" event. We'd like to test if their device s...

Developing web app, question for mobile developers

I'm going to develop a web app that I expect some people will also end up wanting to view on their phones. The UI will be fairly straightforward (no frames, just CSS/HTML). May have a bit of Flash, but not for the first version. My question is, for testing viewing of the web app on mobile devices what devices would you recommend that I ...

Appcelerator Titanium Mobile: app.js not found

I created an app with Appcelerator's Titanium Mobile on my home machine. The path was /Users/[myusername]/Projects/ProjectName. I checked my code into Mercurial. The next day, at my office computer, I cloned the Mercurial repo, and then added the existing app. I tried to run it in the simulator and received the error: could not find...

How do you manage battery health of your development devices when is always plugged in?

I know this question is not programming related, so for this I made community wiki. Developers are the best guys to answer the question. I am addressed to those that do development on devices that runs on batteries, like phones, gadgets etc. Probably you are constantly develop for them, and therefor they are always plugged in and charge...

single page for mobile/iphone and desktop

i have developed a mobile version of a page and it uses some mobile specific java and css i have come across many solutions to point mobile/iphone users to that specific page and desktop users to original webpage. but what i want is that i get both things in one page and when user is on mobile that certain part of javascript and css ru...

Windows Mobile local database

Hi, I'm writing an application for windows mobile 6 and above that requires a local database. I was wondering if anyone has any experience with database hosting on windows mobile and which database management system would be most suitable for development. Thanks in advance, Lloyd ...

What are typical server to client communication patterns?

What are the usual patterns for bidirectional communication between a client and a server in a wlan environment. How is it possible for the server to push data to a mobile client over wlan after a connection has been established. Lets say I have a webservice running on a server and the moblie cients in the wlan can use this webservice....

Best way to send information from one web db/app to multiple desktop/mobile apps?

I am planning to build multiple desktop addons ( for Chrome & Firefox ) and mobile apps ( for iPhone and Droid ). The application would have its own database, and it would be filled by downloading information from a web database (possibly MySQL in Drupal). My plan is to have specific information in the web database transferred to an SQ...