GPS, the Global Positioning System run by the United States Military, is free for civilian use, though the reality is that we’re paying for it with tax dollars. However, GPS on cell phones is a bit more murky. In general, it won’t cost you anything to turn on the GPS in your cell phone, but … Read more
[edit] Some of the information below is outdated as JQM 1.0 final was released Here are a few I have come across that I have found useful: For those who are using Rails and the Devise authentication gem: http://everydayrails.com/2010/11/09/jquery-mobile-rails-devise.html Pretty thorough tutorial http://www.elated.com/articles/jquery-mobile-what-can-it-do-for-you Has example zip http://devgrow.com/mobile-web-dev-using-jquery-mobile Short tutorial on ajax http://www.giantflyingsaucer.com/blog/?p=1948
Maybe this is old but might help someone.i was searching and no good options for this. so made a free restful api to get mobile device descriptions. 6700+ mobile device descriptions available now. you can use it in your applications. here is the website https://fonoapi.freshpixl.com/ and github here https://github.com/shakee93/fonoapi i just made the php client … Read more
New API’s are developing (and are currently available)! screen.orientation.lock(); // webkit only and screen.lockOrientation(“orientation”); Where “orientation” can be any of the following: portrait-primary – It represents the orientation of the screen when it is in its primary portrait mode. A screen is considered in its primary portrait mode if the device is held in its … Read more
I have personally used both Admob and Adsense. I was wary when I first implemented ads thinking that my users would be upset, but I have not received one complaint from over 500,000 active installations. The only permission that you need to add for either ad SDK to work is the android.permission.INTERNET permission. Admob is … Read more
Most modern devices support the tel: scheme. So use <a href=”tel:555-555-5555″>555-555-5555</a> and you should be good to go. If you want to use it for an image, the <a> tag can handle the <img/> placed in it just like other normal situations with : <a href=”tel:555-555-5555″><img src=”path/to/phone/icon.jpg” alt=”Call 555-555-5555″ /></a>