Archive for the ‘Mobile Development’ Category
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
Points Of Interest or simply POIs are the feature of tomorrow. GPS and compass enabled smartphones will guide our every step and habits. We will enjoy, go shopping, rest choose place to invest basing on the local suggestion of our little friends. Here are some services that enable this future:
http://www.geocode.ca/
http://foodpages.ca/
Enjoy
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
A new waves of apps is on the smartphone app stores and market places. Those are the bar code scanners that allow you to link real world of products with the huge internet database. Instead of trying to use words to provide a vague description of the product, its bar ...
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
Another application in a series of new popular augmented reality (AR) application called: Traffic Views
Application is available for Google Android platform only. It provides lot's of useful features that would help you to navigate wisely basing on the traffic conditions in your area. You can see a demo in the ...
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Copying from http://www.bbhub.com/2006/12/19/how-to-filter-messages-sent-from-a-blackberry-gmail-account/
When you use the BlackBerry Gmail service to send messages from your BlackBerry device to another, they are stored in the Gmail Inbox as a conversation. They appear as new messages in the GMail Inbox.
But as the BlackBerry Technical Knowledge Center explains in a just-posted (and frankly a ...
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Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Download android usb windows drivers from the following location:
http://dl.google.com/android/android_usb_windows.zip
As drivers are installed connect your phone.
Application should be compiled in a form of APK file. APK file can be uploaded on to a device using adb utitlity provided with Android SDK in the tools folder:
adb.exe install <APK file>
If install failed because ...
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
Google android makes it possible to define a GUI layout using XML file (http://lamp.epfl.ch/~linuxsoft/android/android-m3-rc37a/docs/devel/ui/xml.html). Couple projects used this feature to build a rich GUI development
http://www.droiddraw.org/ - browser java plug-in
http://www.artfulbits.com/Android/Stencil.aspx - Visio prototype stencil
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Saturday, May 9th, 2009
I started to look into different options to exchange data between mobile device such as blackberry and a typical REST web service.
The following tutorial looks into different options. It basically chooses JSON over other available options for the perfect balance of development simplicity and data overhead:
http://developerlife.com/tutorials/?p=624
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Monday, April 20th, 2009
Thanks to the post in http://posttopic.com/topic/google-voice-add-on-development it should be easy to develop applications that use Google Voice platform. The API is a simple REST API that POSTs requests to the Google Voice portal:
Placing Calls:
POST /voice/call/connect/ outgoingNumber=[number to call]&forwardingNumber=[forwarding number]&subscriberNumber=undefined&remember=0&_rnr_se=[pull from page]
Canceling Calls:
POST /voice/call/cancel/ outgoingNumber=undefined&forwardingNumber=undefined&cancelType=C2C&_rnr_se=[pull from page]
Sending an SMS:
POST /voice/sms/send/ id=&phoneNumber=[number ...
Posted in Mobile Development, VoIP | 5 Comments »
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
GSM Service Call Forward (all calls)
To activate: * 21 * [area code and phone number] # SEND
To cancel: ## 21 # SEND
To reactivate: * 21 * SEND
Status: * # 21 # SEND
Busy/ No Answer Transfer (includes busy, no reply & out of reach
To activate: * 004 * [area code and ...
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Thursday, April 16th, 2009
Blackberry OS 5.0 for Bold is available online: http://www.brettwyman.com/blackberry/9000/5.0.0.90.exe. BGR includes a complete review of the OS: http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/04/10/hands-on-os-50-on-the-blackberry-bold/
My impressions
Overall pretty stable with a lot of small nice features and more to follow. Device is responsive and fast. Battery life is not as good as in the 4.6.* releases.
Major problems: Viigo ...
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