Interacting with preinstalled programs

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Tue, 2005-12-06 10:39
kysam
Joined: 2005-12-06
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Hi am new to mobile programming and have some questions about how it is possible to interact with the programs that are already installed on the phones (e.g. the phone book, the calendar etc.)

Is it possible to add custom functionality to existing programs? (For example add a menu item in the phone book, which open a list where I for example can add emergency phone numbers. Or streaming the output of a program into another application that I write. Etc. etc. )

As I am new to this, any and all answer that provides some insight into how to interact with preinstalled programs will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Tue, 2005-12-06 20:25
Mr. Buttington ...
Joined: 2004-07-10
 Forum posts: 364
Re: Interacting with preinstalled programs
The pre-installed applications are divided into an engine part and a UI part. The engine stores and fetches data etc. and the UI displays it. You can't change either, but you can use the engine to get access to the data if you want.
 
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