Please post your experiences (good and bad) about apps running on REDFLY in this thread.
When you code a Windows Mobile app, you can either choose to scale the position of elements on the screen depending on screen size or code exact pixel placement of items. When a developer positions items in a scaled fashion (a percentage of screen size) then that app has a better chance of scaling to a larger resolution display like REDFLY’s on-the-fly and displaying properly.
Note: You/we can’t blame developers for any issues. Until the REDFLY came along, changing screen resolutions on the fly just wasn’t done nor did developers ever expect their apps to be run on screens as large as 800x480 so there are bound to be some problems. Hopefully as the REDFLY becomes more popular, developers will be more motivated to code their apps with multiple resolutions and resolution changing on-the-fly.
As a general rule, if there is anything Celio Corp’s developers can do on our end to make an app work better on REDFLY, we will strive to resolve the issue internally and make bug fixes available in future driver/firmware downloads.
In cases where Celio has little control over an application’s functionality (most of these cases) we will attempt to engage the developer and discuss the feasibly of the developer re-tooling some code to scale better.
We truly appreciate and value any feedback from customers on the matter so please post away.
[Update April 17, 2009]: With the service pack release of the REDFLY phone driver software and firmware updates on March 31, 2009, many issues with applications like Opera 9.5 and other apps like SPB Mobile Shell have been resolved.
When you code a Windows Mobile app, you can either choose to scale the position of elements on the screen depending on screen size or code exact pixel placement of items. When a developer positions items in a scaled fashion (a percentage of screen size) then that app has a better chance of scaling to a larger resolution display like REDFLY’s on-the-fly and displaying properly.
Note: You/we can’t blame developers for any issues. Until the REDFLY came along, changing screen resolutions on the fly just wasn’t done nor did developers ever expect their apps to be run on screens as large as 800x480 so there are bound to be some problems. Hopefully as the REDFLY becomes more popular, developers will be more motivated to code their apps with multiple resolutions and resolution changing on-the-fly.
As a general rule, if there is anything Celio Corp’s developers can do on our end to make an app work better on REDFLY, we will strive to resolve the issue internally and make bug fixes available in future driver/firmware downloads.
In cases where Celio has little control over an application’s functionality (most of these cases) we will attempt to engage the developer and discuss the feasibly of the developer re-tooling some code to scale better.
We truly appreciate and value any feedback from customers on the matter so please post away.
[Update April 17, 2009]: With the service pack release of the REDFLY phone driver software and firmware updates on March 31, 2009, many issues with applications like Opera 9.5 and other apps like SPB Mobile Shell have been resolved.
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