Pravé Spektrum is a known political magazine in Slovak Republic. Bee Mobile created an Android mobile application which can be used to browse and read the articles of Pravé Spektrum. Anyone can download the full version of the application from the web site of Pravé Spektrum here.

Splash Screen	Newest Articles Screen
Authors Screen	Article Screen

Pravé Spektrum Reader is a simple web service driven application which downloads data from Pravé Spektrum web server using web service and displays them in the mobile application. The users do not have to bother by starting the web browser, typing in the URL and browsing around the web site. They have all the articles immediatelly at hand.

One of the powerful features of TLabelAnimated is that you can write your own custom animator for it. The custom animator allows you to completely customize the way TLabelAnimated animates the text within it.

Let’s say your TLabelAnimated is not wide enough to encompass its text (typical scenario). Therefore you would like the text to animate back and forth plus you would like to have the opportunity to pause the animation at any time and also resume it at any time. This is a perfect scenario for writing your own custom animator.

In this article we will create a form with an image in its background, put a TLabelAnimated on it and TCheckBox. We will use TCheckBox to pause the animation at any time.

This is the second part of the article about Windows Mobile programming tricks. The reason I created this article is that the following tricks either cannot be achieved using pure managed code or they are not easy to find out in the big twine of classes .NET CF provides. We found out in our company that these are some of the hurdles the developers often need to overcome and decided to share the how-to. If you have any ideas on how to extend this project or would like to share additional how-to you are welcome to contact me.

I will show you how to:

• SIM card
  • Get IMSI
• Phone
  • Get IMEI
  • Get or set the volume of the phone ringer
• Memory
  • Get total physical memory
  • Get amount of available memory
  • Get amount of used memory
• Device
  • Get or set the system volume
  • Soft reset the device

In this article I will describe some tricks which many Windows Mobile developers may need while developing for .NET Compact Framework platform. The reason I decided to write this article is that because the following tricks either cannot be achieved using pure managed code or they are not easy to find out in the big twine of classes .NET CF provides.

I will show you how to:

• Graphics
  • Capture the screen (create a screen shot)
  • Reset the idle timer (keep the backlight on)
  • Show/hide the soft input panel button
• File System
  • Create a shortcut in the start menu
  • Get path to special folders (\Program Files, \Windows, etc.)
  • Get path to the folder of the currently executed assembly
  • Get the names of all storage cards

Abstract

This article shows how you can:

• Download data from the local mobile database within sdf file.
• Create iPhone-like GUI on Windows Mobile to display the data.
• Create functionality to search the table data.
• Polish the app by adding some cool features such as round buttons, vibration, glass effect.
• Find out how to detect the current resolution fast.

At the end the article discusses how to display large amount of data on a mobile device.