I'm considering how to identify server(s) to an app on a mobile device that utilises a wcf/web service. (1) I anticipate all going well that I will need to migrate the server between hosts from time to time to handle load. I'd like to be able to do this without service disruption. (2) I also anticipate that all going well I will want t...
I've always been thinking it's not supported until yesterday I login to gmail in my phone. I can see hints in red if I forget to input password. If javascript is not supported,how's that implemented? ...
Heya, Hoping someone can help. I've inherited a WP based website which has WPMP already installed & activated & working on it (I can see it work on many pages). I've had to create a custom template & a few pages that use this template. Unfortunately, when I switch to mobile mode (or check out the new pages on my iPhone), no posts show...
Hi, I have developped a full website with CakePHP framework and we'd like to make a very light version of the website for mobile devices (mainly iPhone/iPad). Is there a way to use the existing website with a new sub domain (for instance mobile.mywebsite.com) which will render specific views? I would like to avoid copying and simplifyin...
I am trying to create a mobile web page layout similar to http://m.espn.go.com What is nice about the site is that it re-sizes the width to fit the device's width. It snaps right to the correct size so that the user does not have to zoom in. It also uses a CSS drop-down effect. I have searched around, and everything so far does not wor...
Hi, We are building the server side of some gaming platform where a great load of mobile devices (a.k.a - mobile phones for time being) connect to a server, send some small information each second (or even less) and receive some small response based on calculations. The data has a DB back end (sql server for now). We have implemented ...
I know jQueryMobile is not out yet. Anyone knows which mobile dev environment (create once-render on any mobile device) is more promising? ...
I need my Android app to save it's state to disk when its activity is put in the background or killed. It's been suggested that I start a thread when onPause() is called and perform any expensive I/O procedures there (see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3894668/saving-loading-document-state-quickly-and-robustly-for-image-editor). In ...
I need to make a web application for mobile phones so that I can transfer balance from a 'recharge sim' (SIM card used to send balance to other mobile SIMs) located in whatever country to other 'non-recharge sims'. I can't find any resource - documentation, tutorial, forum discussion, programming language etc. Where should I start? Wha...
Hey everyone, I am developing a mobile application (BlackBerry) with Java that makes use of the Google Translate API. I have it set up so that a user can specify a language before logging in, and then once they log in, I have wrappers around every piece of text displayed to screen which will translate the text based on the language cho...
The context for my question is that of an alarm application but I would like to know in the general case. How do you schedule your application to turn on at a point in time in the future? For instance, if I set an alarm to play a noise tomorrow at 8:00 am how do I make this happen if the device has closed my app? *editted to correct spe...
I'm looking to create a game using GPS in AIR for mobile devices. I've seen packaging and camera tutorials, but nothing using GPS yet. This question has a few parts: 1. Are there any GPS on AIR resource sites? 2. Any example code showing the accessing of GPS data in AIR (AS3) 3. Are there any ready-made libraries for this? ...
I have block level elements with its height property set in %. Inside these block level elements are <span>s with text. Example: <body style="height: 100%;"> <menu style="height: 10%;"> <button style="display: block; height: 100%;"> <span style="font-size: 4em; line-height: 200%;">text</span> </button> ...
His, Could maybe some of you share their experiences of mobile development on GWT? We are developing a pretty interactive website with lots of clickable panels/buttons and experiencing tremendous browser sluggishness. It is a virtual no-go, navigating to the next page takes over a minute at times. It could be an architecture weakne...
On mobile devices such as the iPad, I would like to disable a feature that only works if position:fixed is supported. Is there a way to detect these devices without using the user agent string? The reason is that I would like to avoid searching for iPad, iPhone, iPod, Android, etc if possible. ...
In say, mobile Safari, can I get the device's phone number? Presumably this would prompt the user if its allowed like it does with location. ...
Hi, I am writing a slide-show like application for android phone which I am going to sell. it will target very narrow audience and I do not think I will sell more than 1000 copies of it. I was going to buy pictures for it from microstock agencies like istockphoto but it turned out that they require purchase of "extended license" if you...
I'm having trouble to get the -webkit-tap-highlight-color property to apply to a div - I'm at a loss as to why it isn't. Copying all the styles that apply to it below. The desired outcome is a back button as shown here: http://building-iphone-apps.labs.oreilly.com/ch03.html#ch03_id35932102 .backButton { font-weight: bold; text-align...
Hello, I am looking into the feasibility of automating tests for some mobile apps that have calling functionality. I have been looking around for automated ui testing for mobiles which seems feasible but they all stop short of simulating any voice data. We currently have an old hammer and are looking in to upgrading. Is it possible...
hi, I need to change the theme (let's say default theme = classic) to the iphone theme (or whatever) when the user has navigated to the liferay portal using a mobile device. I thought to go about it like this: - create a hook to gets triggered on a user login event - check for the device using the User-Agent request header attribute ...