Mobile Designer has a device database that provides device profiles for many devices. You are encouraged to use the more generic devices and code for multi-resolution apps.

The device profiles are located in the following directory:

Mobile Designer_directory /Devices

In your mobile application project, you reference the subset of the devices your mobile application project will support. The project’s target folder contains an XML file for each device that your mobile application supports. Mobile Designer creates the XML file and adds it to the project’s target folder when you execute the Add-Handset Ant target to add a device to your project. You can add a device to your project at anytime during the development phase. For more information, see Adding a Device to a Project.

If needed, you can change the settings that Mobile Designer provides in a device profile by executing the +Add-Update-Handset Ant target. For more information, see Updating an Existing Device Profile in the Device Database.

If you want an application to support a device for which Mobile Designer does not provide a device profile, you can add a device profile to the Mobile Designer device database. To do so, you can run the HandsetUpdater tool by executing the +Add-Update-Handset Ant target to manually add the device profile. For more information, see Updating an Existing Device Profile in the Device Database and Adding a Device Profile to the Device Databases.