Networking

The application that runs on everything—this would be a dream of every developer! Use Java, one might say. But even Java has different implementations, is limited in features, and so forth, not to mention the differences for mobile devices. This article offers you few simple receipts you can use to effectively port your mobile C++ applications back and forth between several mobile platforms.

Devices powered by Pocket PC 2000 and later provide a Today screen, which by default displays Owner Info, Calendar, and so forth. Windows Mobile has added several new cool features for Today's panel item. With a little effort, you can create your own custom Today plug-in component and put it along with standard ones.

Learn how to generate prc software files for a Palm Pilot PDA that supports Java. Learn to create .jar and .jad files, often referred to as MIDlets, that could be converted to prc files using J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition) Wireless Tool kit using Java source files.

Create a CE-to-desktop connection, and account for performance delays that connection may incur by using RAPI, or the CE Remote API.

The key to creating user friendly (and comprehensible) apps lies in managing the appearance of the shell. Here you will add an application's icon to the toolbar and see how to manage the MRU list.

Single-threaded, CSocket-based class that illustrates the functionality offered by the PocketPC device for socket data transfer

Uses the HPC PRO SDK in order to prove basic "ping" abilities on HPC/PPC devices