smartphone

Is it practical to build an ad-driven Smartphone app? (Compact Framework)

Theoretically, it is possible to embed ads into a winforms app running on a smartphone, with .NET CF. Is it practical to do? Are there ads available in "the right size" for the compact device"? How would I get topical ads? Will I get the volume of ad clickthrough that would justify the engineering effort? How would I get started ...

Special Sensor

Are there any hardware solutions or something, where I can start, for the task I describe here? For example, I have a smartphone with a built-in camera and a special sensor attached (the first hardware device I'm looking for) that "looks" in the same direction as the camera. Next, there is a human in front of me (may be in 3-10 meters). ...

automatic zoom on iphone safari

Is there a way for Mobile Safari to recognize a site meant for mobile phones and automatically zoom in? How does that work on other phones and browsers? I'd like to avoid looking at user_agent and sending a different page for each mobile browser. ...

Which phones support which J2ME (Java Micro Edition) spec?

Hello! I just can't find an up-to-date chart about which mobile devices support which Java Micro Edition version. I'm especially interested in Nokia smartphones and their support for the new JME 3.0. (I wonder that Sun doesn't seems to provide such information.) Please, provide me some links, if you know any! EDIT: I'm probably mixi...

Determining Smartphone / Non-Smartphone for php

It seems like facebook has this mastered, I've checked a bit into WURFL but this seems like an extremely expensive process. I've also checked out: url link. While it has a good list of user agents, I'm trying to identify which are smart phones and which are not. facebook pushes the non-smart phones to a different site than their smart ...

Need a signature capture system/method for a SmartPhone?

Need a way of capturing signatures using a SmartPhone. Preferably usable on Verizon networks. This will be used to sign off receipt of medical supply deliveries to customers. Thanks! ...

Porting a Windows Mobile 2003 compact framework app to smartphone

I'm currently porting an app that was written for Windows Mobile 2003 (compact framework 1.0) and I've decided that my lowest denominator is going to be a smartphone running windows mobile 5. I've successfully got it compiling and running under VS2008 on "Professional" device but there is going to be a significant challenge to getting i...

A quick overview of smartphone application development?

What is smart phone development? I know this is a very broad question, so I'm looking for good websites to begin my research. A lot of people have asked me if I am a Smart Phone developer. I say no because I'm not really sure what that means. I don't even own a cell phone. (I'm a very late adopter of technology). Do they mean making...

Single CAB for pocket pc and smartphone versions of same application

Is it possible to create a single cab that will allow me to package both PocketPc and Smartphone version of Windows Mobile application? What I would like is to be able to check during installation if device is pocket pc or smartphone and then install appropriate versions. Thanks in advance for the help. ...

Is 480px screen width a legitimate design target for mobile web applications in late 2009?

I am working on a web application that will target the modern browsers or recent smartphones. When I look at the different resolutions, I see 480 a lot. For example: 480x320 is used by the iPhone and Blackberry Bold 9000. This appears to be a standard called Half VGA (HVGA), which has a 3:2 aspect ratio and half the pixels of VGA. 4...

Where to begin with Smartphone Web Development?

Ha all, So I've been taksed with developing a smartphone website for our property portal and first thing I did was see what lessons others had to tell online but I've found very little. I'm not building an app, I'm building a website and I'm looking for do's and don't with regards to html, css, widths/heights approaches, javascript (is...

Getting Web page document in Windows mobile 6.0

Hi All, After searching lot on the internet we have found following code to get only body part of the web page loaded onto web browser control IPIEHTMLDocument2 *pHTMLDocument; IPIEHTMLElement* pBodyElement; CComPtr<IDispatch> spDispDoc; HRESULT res = m_spWebBrowser2->get_Document(&spDispDoc); if(SUCCEEDED(res)) { spDispD...

IOEXCEPTION in C# compact framework when saving image

I'm saving an image from a web request and something really weird is happening. On roughly half of the 8,000 images I'm downloading I get IOEXCEPTION errors: ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED (5) INVALID_PARAMETER (87) Before I save the file using file.open, I check to make sure the file does not exist. The exception is thrown at this line of code: ...

Embedding IWebbrowser2 ATL interface control in C# windows mobile smart device application

Hi All, We have developed an ATL smart device project for to save the web page locally in windows mobile device. The application uses native IWebbrowser2 ATL interface control to browse the web page and save the web page complete. Now we need to have our UI and other user interface controls to be designed and developed using C# also ...

Windows Mobile Development: Pocket PC AND Smart Phone or Pocket PC Only??

Developing an application with impressive and a little complex GUI is quite easy for Pocket PC platform. But if I want the same application to run on SmartPhone platform as well, I need to make extensive changes in my application. Smart Phone doesn't even support radio buttons. I want my application be usable on as many mobiles as poss...

disabling a javascript script when loaded on a smart phone

I am using the following HTML fragment to load a different stylesheet for smartphones: media="only screen and (min-device-width: 4801x)" media="only screen and (max-device-width: 480px)" I would like to disable a certain javascript script for smartphone users as well. Is that possible? I don't think i can do: <script media="only scre...

Can I start using HTML 5 for my smartphone app ?

Most smartphones use modern browser engines that have implementing HTML 5 (or at least partially). Should I start using HTML 5 for my web application ? Where can I find a list of browser engines used by most popular devices (iPhone,Android,etc.) ? My application doesn't have to work on older desktop browsers. ...

Web Applications v/s SmartPhone Applications (Iphone, Windows Mobile, Android/Nexus Application)

Q: How does Web Applications differ from SmartPhone Applications (Iphone, Windows Mobile, Android/Nexus Application) and in what specific aspects do they differ and in what degree ? Also for example, Q: Why we need mobile version of Web Application like gmail.com or bankofamerica.com specifically for smartphone devices where we can a...

Between 2 Androids and to other OS mobiles

Hi, PhoneMyPC tool in Android provides remote desktop connection to PC. But, Do Android based mobiles support VNC protocol/softwares for connection between 2 android mobiles ? Do android based mobiles support RDP or other tools for connections to other OS based mobiles like windows, symbian etc ? Thx in advans, Karthik Balaguru ...

Development tools for Windows Vista for Smartphone application

I have the list of necessary development tools for Smartphone Application development for Windows XP but some of the tools from that list is not working with vista. The list is as follows: Active Sync Embedded Visual Tools 2002 Embedded Visual C++ & SP4 Visual Studio .NET 2003 Pocket PC 2003 SDK Smartphone 2003 SDK Emulator for Pocke...