mobile

Developing apps for Near Field Communication (NFC)

Please point me to a toolkit i can use to build Near Field Communication apps. thanks ...

Websites for the iPhone - but what about other platforms?

I recently did the Chris Coyier tutorial from the css-tricks.com weblog #38: Basics & Tips on Designing for the iPhone. Needless to say I got very excited and suggested to a guy that I do some code monkey work for that we could now offer iPhone websites to his clients. He said cool, but what about other mobile devices? good question. So ...

Hide something with CSS without display:none or JavaScript

How can I hide the div without using display:none or JavaScript? In my country, a lot of Blackberrys come with the CSS support disabled (the mobile companies here are not so good to developers). I have text that says <div class="BBwarn"> please activate your css support and a link </div> I want to hide that once the user activates CS...

Has anyone had success getting PR_DEFAULT_STORE using MAPI under Windows Mobile?

The following piece of test code runs under Windows Mobile. It's objective is to seek out the default message store. This is so that I can get the proper account name for programmatically compiling an email. IMAPISession *mapiSession; HRESULT hr = S_OK; MAPIInitialize (NULL); IMAPITable *msgTable; SRowSet *pRows; IMsgStore *msgStore;...

What to program for a gadget that can deduce what I'm doing? The ultimate life-hack?

This isn't really a programming question, more of an ideas question. Bear with me. My sister gave me a well-used Nokia N95. I don't really need it, but I wanted it to do some programming for it. It supports a few languages, of which I can do Python. My question is this: what to do with it? If I think about it, it has a lot to offer: i ...

Symbol SDK - Get Device Serial Number

Has anyone done any dev work woek the Symbol Device SDK. I want to get the Device Serial Number and write it to a value in the registry. Does the Symbol SDK get you the facility of getting the Device Serial Number, if so do you no what the class is called as there are quite a few in the SDK pack? Any help would be welcome..... ...

Java Mobile programming for a beginner, where to start?

After I downloaded the Google Mail and Google Maps application into my mobile phone I got an idea about a service that I want to implement. My problem is that I never did any programming for the mobile platform and I need someone to point me out some resources for the Hello World on a mobile and then something a bit more complicated. L...

Windows Mobile Development - Where to begin?

Okay, I will shortly be starting down the path of windows mobile development. I know nothing about the subject really and I am looking for people with experience to let me know of any gottchas you may know of. Right now I dont even have a breif of what is requied but the assumption is that the application will be very little more than ...

SIM Application Toolkit development

Hi, I'm designing a client/server cellular application, and am considering using SIM Application Toolkit for part of it. Where are there good resource to get started with learning the technologies available for SIM cards? I'm more interested in understanding the benefits of existing technologies, their percent of the installed base,...

How do I determine whether it's a mobile device with PHP?

I am writing a website with PHP. Since it will need to be accessed by anyone on the network to access the internet I have to create a mobile version. How do I best check if it's a mobile device? I don't want to have a switch statement with 50 devices at the end since I don't only want to support the iPhone. Is there a PHP class I could ...

SQLCE Connections: Keep them open or let them close?

Keeping performance on a mobile device in mind, what do you think is the best approach with an SQLCE Connection. Keep it open for the duration of the application or let it close whenever a call to the database is needed. Obviously this depends a little on the nature of your application however I'm curious to hear what the group has impl...

Custom Phone Firmware

Hi, I am looking to develop a custom phone (consumer item) which people can purchase in the market. I am wondering whats the best way to go about it? Basically am looking for a cheap phone on which I can customize the firmware as per my requirements. Something like Android but the price should be cheaper like 100$. I dont mind using a c...

Web for mobile devices - best practices for ASP.NET

Starting to build web applications for mobile devices (any phone). What would be the best approach using ASP.NET 3.5/ASP.NET 4.0 and C#? UPDATE (feb2010) Any news using windows mobile 7? ...

How to get the size (free,total) of phone drive using Nokia API?

I want to get the size of the phone drive. I'm using "Nokia-PC-Connectivity"., and with respect to File System API I found on CONADifinition function called CONA_Folder_Info but this function doens't support FreeSize and Total Size but there is CONA_Folder.Info2 and its instance support these variables. But when I used CONA_Folder.Info2...

BlackBerry versus iPhone development

For those of you who know/experienced both BlackBerry and iPhone development, which platform did you prefer and why? I'm looking for things like debugging ability, API stability, UI development, deployment, IDE, documentation, etc. ...

can c# be used for communicating mobile and pc?

As a minor project in my degree I would like to communicate mobile and pc .I am interested to communicate through bluetooth is it possible to do so in c#? If possible please provide me list of application or hardware i would requiere in order to do so. thanks in advance ...

J2ME and (open source) applet signing for Mobile Devices (esp. phones) - what can I do?

I've just discovered J2ME and I love the possibilities that it presents. I'm currently working on a simple application and I'd like to maybe release it as an open-source project sometime in the future. As part of my research into J2ME and mobile devices, I looked into applet signing. It seems that people who want to create applets for...

Is there a way to detect all user generated events (click, keypress, ...) in Windows Mobile?

I'll be developing something for a Windows Mobile device using CompactFramework/C#. I wonder if there is some event available that can capture any user driven event (click, keypress, ...) in context of the device. Sure, I could add some detection code in any of my click event handler for example but I assume that there hundreds of them. ...

Are there any SyncML server components that work in .NET?

Basically we'd want to create a SyncML server that we can hookup to our own custom data source, all the component would do is listen for client connections and notify and request data from our code return the data back to the client. Looking primarily to sync Contact data from our app with various mobile devices. ...

MIDP heap vs VM heap

Some Java mobile devices have distinct heaps for MIDP and VM. What's the distinction between these two heaps, and how can a J2ME app control which is used for a given piece of data? ...