julianmclean
Joined: Mar 11, 2003
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As per a previous thread started by roskelld, I have taken it upon myself to try and develop a P800 app that will keep track of how many minutes/texts/etc you are using against your current tariff. I know some Java, but this is my first attempt at developing something for a mobile so don't expect anything being released too quick.
I would appreciate any help/suggestions however as to how to code some of the application and also features that you guys think would be useful. I've starting coding some classes for some of the objects, but some of the things that will be new to me is coding are:
- Coding the UI - how to produce screens for a mobile device
- Coding to retrieve call/sms information from the UIQ/Symbian O/S
- How to persist the data/synch the data
In terms of the UI, I have ideas on how I want it to look but if anyone has any thoughts let me know. Also, if anyone has an example app that just shows dummy screens/windows then that would be great.
As for getting info from the O/S, I have no idea how easy it is to get the call/sms information from the phone itself - hopefully this is a simple as calling a few methods, I hope I don't have to start fishing around in the filesystem? Anyone know how this info is stored - file, database, etc?
Finally, on how to persist the data, I'm gonna need a method of storing info - I am guessing the usual way for these sort of apps is just a config/data file of some sort? Anyone got any bright ideas (and/or code that could help me out)? As for synching the data, what I mean is that the app will need to keep track of the calls/sms made - currently I am thinking that as long as I can reliably store the state of a tariff (i.e. mins/sms left/used) up to an exact date/time, all that will be required is to keep synching this with any newer information from the call/sms logs.
Basically, if anyone has any thoughts/ideas or has anything they can contribute in terms of techie bits, classes, code snippets, etc. then this will speed up development and hopefully I'll be able to get something together soon. Please use this thread to post stuff about this or email me with any useful code/ideas at mail@julianmclean.com
Cheers
This message was posted from a Pea |
Posted: 2003-04-10 15:10
