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Smartphone is a combination of mobile phone and PDA (Personal Digital Assistant).

Smartphone is a combination of mobile phone and PDA (Personal Digital Assistant). It's built on a mobile operating system, for example: , , BlackBerry OS, or others.

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What's the best (easy&efficient) solution for asp.net developers to develop a mobile version of their existing website

I hope the question is self-describing. I'm currently developing an asp.net website which uses a MS SqlServer database in the data layer. And I was thinking what are my options to get a mobile version (most importantly supports BlackBerry and iPhone…
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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…
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Is Android OS only used for ARM CPUs?

If not, can APK files for Android run on either ARM CPUs or non-ARM CPUs? Sorry for my poor English.
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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.
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can i detect whether a web user has a software keyboard using javascript?

I'd like to have the search field on my website automatically gain focus when the user loads the page, but i don't like how that pops up the keyboard for users on smartphones/tablets. Is there any javascript property I can use to detect whether or…
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Media queries and device pixel ratio

I'm in the process of redesigning my website and I've decided to take a shot at responsive layout. I'm new to CSS3 media queries and can't figure out how to make the site behave as intended on my smartphone. The page has currently this viewport meta…
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Applying a diff-patch to a string/file

For an offline-capable smartphone app, I'm creating a one-way text sync for Xml files. I'd like my server to send the delta/difference (e.g. a GNU diff-patch) to the target device. This is the plan: Time = 0 Server: has version_1 of Xml file (~800…
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Unity 5 - Stream Unity Camera to Smartphone

I'm developing currently a drone simulator in Unity 5 and I've got 4 Unity-Cameras in my Scene. I'm working now on a solution to stream the screen of one virtual camera in Unity, to my android smartphone, in real time. I was thinking about these…
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How to manipulate audio channels volume with AudioTrack.setVolume after API 21

I'm trying to reproduce a mono wav file over just one of the stereo channels (speakers) that my smartphone has. I used to control this with AudioTrack.setStereoVolume (float leftGain, float rightGain) by setting one of these gains to zero.…
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How to stream video to VLC from direct video link (for Android or iPhone)

Hi I'm finding a way to create a website link to stream my direct video link from my web server to my android phone for example I have a video direct link like : http://1.1.1.1/video.mkv I would like to create a web page to have like a button when…
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How to disable the 'save image as' popup for smartphones for

On a webpage I made I use the input tag with as source an image. When the button is pressed too long on smartphones there is a popup window with "save as" etc. I searched for options to stop this from happening as buttons need to be kept pressed…
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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.) ?…
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Screen Width Issue when using different browsers on Hand Held/Smart Devices

I have made a script in which i am detecting the the mobile browser and when its true then the JS function getwidth being called and redirects the visitor to a certain URL on the basis of his device's screen width. I used basic js method of…
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Stop image from being downloaded when on a smartphone

I'm developing a responsive website for a company where the full size website has a slideshow with images in the background (filling the screen completely with Backstretch). Since the images are pretty hefty in size (around 300k), I'm looking for a…
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Is there any framework that works on Android and iPhone

I want to develop and deploy application on iPhone and Android. However there is a problem, as far as I know iPhone is using XCode and Objective-C, plus I can't even develop iPhone applications on Windows/Linux. Android is using Java. So basically…
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