Mobile Programming Pit Stop

Joke: How Smartphone users see each other (Android,Blackberry, iPhone)

Source: Android and Me

Ubuntu One Music Streaming App for iPhone, Music from the Cloud!

After much anticipation, Ubuntu One Music is now available for iPhone! The application lets the users streams music from their personal Ubuntu One cloud to iPhone.

Among the features of Ubuntu One Music for iPhone are:

• Supports MP3 and other non-DRM iTunes format
• Supports iOS 3.1+
• Able to sync music wirelessly between iPhone and the cloud wirelessly
• Easy to use user-interface
• Can resume playing song automatically when interrupted by a call

The Ubuntu One Music is available from iTunes App Store for free

GooApple – China-made iPhone 4 Clone (which runs Android!)

Just after the discovery of several fake Apple Store a few weeks ago, now come an Apple iPhone 4 lookalike product which uses Android. The outer feature bear strong similarity to the real iPhone 4 phone. Plus, its user-interface has been customized (keypad, contact list, application icon) to look exactly like iPhone 4.

Additionally, the device is available for pre-order from its website (priced around 1700 Yuan or USD 270), there’s no information available about its official launch date though.

p/s: The device copies the iPhone user-interface and icons which is clearly Apple’s intellectual property. Apple has previously taken steps in protecting its intellectual property before (as evidenced by Samsung Galaxy Tab sales block in Europe and the fake Apple Store), I doubt Apple would sit ideally should the device is marketed.

How to use W3C Geolocation API in Mobile (Basic)

Previously Geocoding from mobile web (or ‘ordinary’ web application) is achieved through Google Gears (as pre-installed in Android 1.5+). However the W3C Geolocation API Specification has render Google Gears obsolete as newer browsers has these functionality built-in (including mobile browser).

How to include Geolocation API in a Web Page?
The most basic code that you started is listed below, the code below tests if the browser have built-in support for geolocation. If it does have geolocation support, it will call either one of the callback “successCallback” or “errorCallback”.

if (navigator.geolocation) {
  navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(successCallback, errorCallback);
} else {
  error('Sorry, your browser does not support geolocation');
}

“successCallback” is call whenever the API call is successful. You need to create a function for “successCallback”, as shown in the example below:

function successCallback(pos) {
  var lat, long;

  lat = pos.coords.latitude ;
  long = pos.coords.longitude;

var element = '<p><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q='+lat+','+long+'&hl=en">Latitude: ' +lat+ ' Long: ' + long + '</a></p>';

alert(lat +','+long);
$('body').prepend(element);

The function will return the latitude and longitude data and stores it in ‘lat’ and ‘long’ variable, which is then displayed to the screen.

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Get the latest iftar (breaking fast) time with TimeToBuka.com

TimeToBuka.com is a mobile web application that lets you check the latest iftar time (breaking fast time – for Muslim during Ramadan month). The application detects the current user location (using Google Geocoding API) and displays the time for Iftar and Imsak for the current location.

However, the application currently only supports Malaysian and Singapore users only. But you can help the author ( Nazrul Kamaruddin ) to add support for more countries by providing him with the appropriate data.

The application is tested and confirmed to work in Android 1.6+, 2.x and iPhone

Old Joke: iPhone 4 vs HTC Evo

I know this is stale, but I update it nevertheless, After almost 2 years, I’m going to write again!

Phone ReUnion: A little bit of iPhone Joke