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