I'm looking for some kind of way to find nearby shops/companies given a GPS location. I was looking at the Google Places API but that is still under development. Is there any other way to accomplish this? ...
I am planning on purchasing the new HTC phone running Windows Phone 7, and am planning on using it for development purposes only; however, I can't afford the expensive subscription to T-mobile's data network at the moment. Is a cellular subscription necessary to use the phone for application testing purposes; or can I just use my WiFi ne...
There are a couple of related questions, but I want to ask specifically for low end browsers. We have an existing .NET MVC 2 web application and would like a scaled back, simple web interface to some of its functionality. As we are based in Africa we are targeting a wide range of very basic mobile browsers (ie not just Iphones, Android ...
I downloaded an opensource project from https://meapplicationdevelopers.dev.java.net/source/browse/meapplicationdevelopers/demobox/mobileajax/lib/request/ When i try a Clean and Build from Netbeans, it results in this error message: Problem: failed to create task or type nb-prep Cause: The name is undefined. Action: Check the spelling. ...
Hi I would like to be able to add a non-selectable element to a list within a j2me screen. At the moment any item that I add to the List can be navigated to on the screen, such that it is selected and is surrounded by a black border. Is possible to add an element to a List which cannot be selected in this way? Can this be achieved th...
I'm building a site that uses w3c CORS to make oAuth-signed HTTP requests to a remote server. Mozilla has a great document explaining how to make and receive CORS requests, and there's good support in firefox, chrome, and safari. Does anyone maintain a matrix of browser support for CORS features (e.g. preflight OPTIONS requests for cro...
I developed a simple web app in the browser where there are 3 input boxes . The first input box has a ajax search suggestion box drop down when user starts keying in something. For example, the first input box is for user to key in username, when user key in "alan", a dropdown-like suggestion box will show below the input box to show t...
I am currently working on the mobile version of my website. I use the NivoSlider throughout the site and unfortunately it doesn't seem to scale for mobile devices. I have a mobile specific section of my stylesheet and have tried using "width: 50%" and "max-width: 480px." They seem to shrink the area of the slider, but not the actual imag...
I am making changes to an existing web application based on Struts1 - which already is made up of various forms & actions. What I am trying to do is Add a few pages for the mobile version of website. For example, I want to add a JSP page that contains a form with a few fields (same as that in the PC version) with a submit b...
Hey Guys! I have implemented location identification using GPS in android in my application but now if GPS is not available or disabed then how to identify location when internet is enabled in device. Whether using google API or triangulation or some thing else. Thank You. ...
If I try to download an app that is lets say 100 MB it will not allow me to do it on my phone. Or if I am not connected to a WiFi. Does anyone know where they cut that off? Like at 30 MB or something you have to be connect to WiFi? Thanks ...
I'm writing a bitmap editor. Each document consists of about 3 bitmap layers and documents are, at the moment, saved as a custom file with a .bme extension. These files can be converted to standard jpg/png files by rendering each bitmap on top of one bitmap and saving the latter. I need some way for the user to be able to select .bme fi...
I'm writing a bitmap editor where I use the Command Pattern to represent actions that will transform the document. I keep all the commands executed so far in a list and, to implement undo, I restore the document to its initial state and then replay all but the last command. I would like my undo/redo system to have the following feature:...
We have a basic data entry app we want to develop using QT as the development platform. There appears to be Qt Mobility and QT Web Kit. The goal is to have the app run on as many mobile phone platforms as possible. What is the recommended approach? ...
For my project I need to show a horizontal scroll bar in the Pocket Internet Explorer (PIE). The best discussion I could find on the web is at http://www.pocketpcjunkies.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/pocket-pc/31244/Horizontal-scroll-only-PIE which does not have a clear solution. Can you please give me some directions on how to do it? I am open to ...
I have some bitmap A which I modify to produce bitmap B. I want to efficiently produce a bitmap D by XORing the pixels values of A and B together such that D XOR A produces bitmap B and D XOR B produces bitmap A. I want to store the differences between the bitmaps so I can reverse changes that I've made. So far I've tried: Drawing A o...
Would this Android code be a correct way to test for http network availability during a phone call, or does it exclude networks that should be included or vice versa: public boolean isOnline() { TelephonyManager tm = (TelephonyManager) getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE); if (tm.getNetworkType() > Telephon...
When releasing multiple versions of an iphone-app, there are problems: you are running very old apps (still need to support them through server-api) you have to live with bugs of a certain app, once released blocker-bugs are not fixable Is there a way to mark an iphone-app as unsupported or enforce an online-update, i.e. when it star...
I heard, c#.net and QT can be mixed for mobile development. I shall like to share of your experience with the same. Basically, we have c#.Net background and wish to reuse the skill/knowledge of these for expanding products into mobile platform. We have seen J2ME. But it needs specific skill/resource development. We shall prefer .Net for...
I'm currently working on an VB.net application using Win forms and SQL Server Express 2008. One of the major functions of our program is to generate work orders for field engineers. These engineers typically work in a factory and have to walk around the factory to complete these work orders doing things such as recording pressures and vo...