smartphone

Key stroke time in Openmoko or any smart phones

Dear all, I am doing a project in which I am working on security issues related to smart phones. I want to develop an authentication scheme which is based on biometrics, Every human being have a unique key-hold time,digraph time error rate. Key-Hold Time : Time difference between pressing and releasing a key Digraph Time : Time differ...

Suggest books/learning path for writing smartphone apps

I have been writing a lot of HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL and JavaScript lately working on a website, and I would like to move on to 'proper' OOP with an eye to making smartphone apps. I would like to at least cover iPhone and BlackBerry, which means learning Objective C, Cocoa and Java, before learning the specifics of interacting with the de...

Is there an HTML attribute to tell smartphone keyboards to show special email keys?

I notice that when using my touch-screen smartphone (no physical keyboard) that when an app asks for an email address to be entered in a textbox, the on screen keyboard is modified slightly to provide specialized keys that enter blocks of text, like '.com' or push some characters to the foreground key, like '@'. Is there an HTML attribu...

Ubiquitous framework to target multiple smartphone OS?

Is there already a ubiquitous/general framework to target multiple smartphone OS, i.e. like a QT for Android/iPhone/Symbian? Or would be technically too hard to write such a framework? ...

What smartphones to target for a modern b2c app?

We want to build a smartphone app which uses geolocation, etc. and target the most important smartphones. Which OS would you support for a b2c application? I found a german statistic here: http://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/150842/umfrage/prognostizierte-marktanteile-der-smartphone-betriebssysteme-in-2013/ which forecasts the ...

Web App for smartphones in ASPX

I have been looking around recently to try and find a good place to learn how to start making my website more smartphone friendly when it is visited by an iPhone, android, or blackberry. This is something like what Digg.com does when it is visited by a smartphone. I have found a few tutorials for PHP but none for ASPX, and all I have is ...

developing smartphone apps using Rhomobile.

I have been developing an Android application for about two months now, and the guy I'm writing it for wants me to use this instead of the android SDK so we can deploy the application for multiple smart phones: http://rhomobile.com/ he says you can write the application in one language and it can be deployed for most smart phones. Has a...

Which is the better option? Develop software for OVI stores (or) Andorid (or) Apple stores?

Which is the better option? Develop software for OVI stores (or) Andorid (or) Apple stores? Which is the future of mobile application development? Qt for Meego/Symbian and hosting in OVI store? or Developing application for android or Developing application for iPhone? I wish to know the best platform to learn to pursue my career as a i...

Which smartphones support flash player 10.1 to date?

Flash player 10.1 is supposed to provide a consistent runtime environment for browsers on both PC and smartphones. But which smartphones actually can install Flash player 10.1 ? ...

Choices for smartphone accessibility of pre-existing vb.net/sql server desktop crud application

The application is vb.net front end and sql server express backend. The networks are always cabled LANs. Installations are small with only a few users, none of whom would have any technical knowledge. Very little technical support is ever called for and I'd like to keep it that way. I don't know Java or Objective C or HTML/CSS/Javascrip...

mobile application Contests for Android Apps

This is a community wiki, to collect a list of contest sites that offer winning prizes for Android applications. This can be anything where Android is accepted, or where OS platform and GSM providers are not specified so I can apply with an Android app. It should also NOT be region specific, so someone from EU or Bangladesh can apply. ...

Possible to work with audio coming through the headphone jack?

I am looking into writing some apps for Android phones that work with audio. These phones do not have a line in jack but do have headphone jacks that work with some headsets that include a microphone. Is it possible to work with audio coming in through the headphone jack if I plugged in something like a portable computer mic? ...

sql connection on c# smartdevice application

Hi all! I'm trying do build an application using the pocket pc emulator... My goal is to connect to a sqlserver express db placed onto another pc note that in a simple desktop program everything works fine, but in the smartphone program, when this code is run: SqlConnection DatabaseConnection = new SqlConnection(@"Data source=SERVER\SQL...

Smartphone Memory Configuration

Smart-phones have built in ROM and RAM separately. Also a few phones has virtual memory support too. I would like to know what these memories are basically used for. I understand that RAM is available to user processes. But why do they have a big chunk of ROM? E.g. The wiki page for Droid Incredible says 512 MB DDR RAM 1 GB ROM (748 M...

Is it possible to program a BlackBerry smartphone using C# and managed code?

Is there any way possible to run C# code on a BlackBerry OS smartphone? I've got some Windows Mobile 5.x/6.0 frameworks written in C# that my team needs to "port" to various smartphone platform. We're looking at the following smartphone OS's: Windows Phone 7 - VS 2010, Windows Phone Developer Tool CTP, Silverlight, XNA iOS - MonoTouch,...

Comparison of Cross-Platform (Mobile) App Development Solutions - iPhone / Android / Smartphones via Web Dev Skillset

It looks like there are a number of cross-platform solutions for smartphone app development, accessible by web developers. Here are some I've found -- what are the pros/cons of each, from the perspective of a web developer's skillset (CSS/AJAX (jQuery)/LAMP backend)? appMobi appcelerator Titanium PhoneGap Rhodes And a few others ...

Is there a list somewhere of all the app dev contests and promotions going on?

If not... let's start one here? Please add below! StreetApps Challenge Adobe Open Screen Nokia 1 million API-based contests ConstantContact API Daylife API (Profit Share) And more? ...

mobile application features

Suppose one wants to port a desktop app to a smartphone (which can mean write from scratch). How in your opinion should a mobile version relate to to the desktop one? In other words, what are the common features of mobile apps? I can say: short user interface (not time consuming) dense content, filtered in comparison with the desktop...

How to get create scripts of sql server CE 2005 Tables

I am working on Sql server CE 2005. I have created a Database in Sql server CE 2005 now I want to get the scripts so that can use that further??? Is there any way to get create scripts from SQL server CE 2005 dataBase.. ...

How to get selected row in DataGrid in smartphone applocation?

I am working on a smartphone application, where I have a DataGrid in winform. I want to get the value of cell of the selected row.. ...