mobile

Geolocation on an image-based map - data collection and data structure best practices.

My goal is to be able to open a web page on a mobile browser and, provided you are within the geographical bounds of the mapping area, plot your location on a stylized map image (PNG, JPG, whatever). Also on this map will be points of interest, and it would be nice to say "You're closest to XZY thing". Is it sufficient to gather individ...

JSON security in mobile client - server environemnt

Hi, I am using JSON for data exchange between my mobile client and the server. I am using that for some sensitive data transfers. However is their any risk in this data format or any security consideration using JSON format? Also the communication is done in HTTPS. Also I need to know whether we need to apply basic encryption standard...

Mobile device identification from http headers

I have a large data-set containing HTTP Header information taken from network measurements. I need to use the UserAgent present in those headers to identify whether the useragent is for a Desktop or a Mobile Device or anything else. After doing that I need to identify the particular mobile device and perform further analysis on these dev...

Preventing mobile API client identity theft

We're developing a REST API to be consumed by a couple of mobile applications. It's important that we're able to trust the identities of these mobile applications. In our current design, each API call is authenticated with an "API Key" parameter and secured with HTTPS. My concern is that the API Key is embedded within each copy of the ...

Preview a document (ie. excel/pdf) designed for any Mobile phone on my desktop PC?

Is there any free software or is there anyway to preview how a document will look once on the mobile device. So for example, a rendering engine for a Blackberry or Android etc. This way I can make my documents tailored to specific devices without having the phones. Thanks! ...

android caching web service data

I'd like to make my Android app responsive, even when the network connection is not. For certain calls, the data doesn't change that often, so I'd like to be able to retrieve the most recent XML response for a given call. Ideally, I'd like to do this similar to how web caching works, hash the call/params, set rules as to expiry, etc....

encoding mobile-device versioning for REST Api server

We have restful api over HTTP. Amongst other clients we have also mobile-device clients (e.g. iphone). The issue is that there are several iphone apps in different versions out there (1.0, 2.0). Because they are distributed we don't have control which app-version is calling us. To identify the app-version on server-side I see following...

How to tell how close your activity is to reaching its memory limit?

I'm writing a graphic design application for Android where the user can add several images to a document, where each image is stored as a Bitmap object. Each bitmap has roughly a dimension of 800x400 pixels and uses ARGB8888 pixel format (i.e. ~1.5Mb each). I'm aware that most of the first generation Android devices have a 16Mb heap lim...

Converting existing Asp.Net web sites to Mobile version

Hi Experts, I have a existing web site which is developed in Asp.Net / AJAX 3.5, C#, Now I need to make this site available in Mobile version.. and I came across an open source tool http://51degrees.mobi/Products/NETMobileAPI/AddtheNETMobileAPItoanExistingWebSite.aspx But I am not sure How do I integrate.. this in my existing applic...

Detect the open url in Windows Mobile

What I want to do is have a background running app on Windows Mobile that can detect when a specific url is opened and perform some task. About the only way I can think of is to watch the cache directory and look for files specific to the site. There might be a way with IE to get the open url information but I doubt it would work the sam...

What programming languages can one use to develop Android applications?

Possible Duplicates: Which programming languages can I use on Android Dalvik? Which programming languages can be used to develop in Android? What programming languages can one use to develop Android applications? Also are there plans in the future to expand the amount of programming languages that Android will support? UPD...

How do I implement Live Video in a mobile device?

It's my understanding that iphones/iPads don't support flash. RIght now I have a live video chat application using the api from a 3rd party server and displaying it using flash. I would like to port my application to mobile devices, using live video. What's the process for doing so -- as much detail on the technology and architecture ...

How to ensure my Mobile App runs on only 1 phone

How do I ensure that my mobile application runs only on the mobile of the user who bought my app? Thanks. ...

Mobile Website Development

Are there any tools for Mobile Website (not Mobile Application) Development? For computer websites, CSS grids like Blueprint CSS are used. Is there any thing similar for the mobile version? There's lot of talk about HTML5 + CSS3 + Javascript - a combination thats going to transform Mobile Websites. Not sure how true. Any good tutorials...

Where to start? : Developing rich web applications for mobile platforms (against platform specific standalone apps)

I am new to mobile app development and I dont want restrict myself to one platform. Some days ago I read an article that stressed on the fact that soon web apps running on mobile browsers may replace dedicated apps (at least for non-game apps). I want to develop a social networking web app that any phone can run via the browser. These ...

Mobile web auto adjust screen resolution

Hello, I'm working on a mobile website, but when I view the site on the phone, the website is automatically shrink to a very small font and user has to expand the screen to like 100%. How do I make it , each time user visits the site, it automatically displays at the right size? Here's my CSS : .content { width:auto; height:auto; font...

ASP.NET website not working properly in mobile

I have created a simple app with a page having a server side form, three fields and a button that submits and performs two operations - 1) adds the form fields to the database table 2) sends an email. Now everything works fine on the web browser on my machine but when I access the app through my mobile, the page does not seem to work. th...

Mobile Device Usage

Where would I find usage statistics on mobile devices and browsers broken down by type over time? From a technical aspect I would like to support as many as I can in upcoming projects, however it would be beneficial to determine which devices / browsers are the pack leaders before I go supporting ancient junk. ...

Redirecting for mobile web browsers

Hi, Is there a way to redirect for mobile web pages; and what is the best layout for mobile browsers? I currently have my pages set to relative sizing via percentages. ...

open source mobile ad server

Are there any open source mobile ad servers available? I have heard of Adhere, based on a version of OpenX, but the development seems to have stopped since last year. ...