[mathiasvissers]

Hi

I'm totally new in mobile application development for Symbian/Java/...
I've already done some mobile application development for Windows-based phones.

Next application needs to be created:
1) People fill in their phone number on a website
2) the person receives a (free) wappush to a mobile wap site
3) on the mobile wap site, people can download a small application
4) when installed, the application creates only a shortcut on the mobile phone (if possible, on the main (desktop) screen of the phone, otherwise in the "applications"-directory) with a own icon. When people click on the shortcut, the homepage of our wapsite will be opened in the default browser of the mobile phone.

The first three steps are no problem for me, only the development of the application that creates the shortcut is a problem for me.

If anybody can give me some advice about how to start with this project, or where I can find good examples, please let me know.

Thanks in advance.

Kind regards
Mathias

[hartti]

Mathias,

This is not possible with Java ME, although there is a workaround, with quite a few manual steps.
The workaround is roughly following:
MIDlet can launch the browser and ask the browser to go to a specific WAP page using platformRequest method call. However before the browser is launched the user is asked permission to do so.
You can place the MIDlet in the idle screen / home screen as one of the shortcut icons after you have installed the MIDlet, but the user has to do that manually through settings menu.
As you can see, not really a smooth solutiuon, so better to ask this on the Symbian forums on these discussion boards...

Hartti