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Mobile web content adaptation techniques

This article summarizes all of the techniques available to designers to build a mobile website that adapts to different devices

  • Best Practices - Posted by ronan 16 weeks 1 day ago
  • Mobile web content adaptation techniques
  • Introduction This article will help you pick from amongst the many techniques for building a mobile website. It doesn't describe how to do it, rather it instead tries to help you to pick the right approach. Before we begin it's worth clarifying exactly what the goal of the exercise is. Generally speaking, people who are looking to build a mobile site fall into two categories. They're either:
  • Windows Phone 7 - Posted by weimenglee 1 year 9 weeks ago
  • Building Location Service Apps in Windows Phone 7
  • In my previous article on Windows Phone 7 development, I showed how you can quickly get started using Visual Studio 2010 together with the Windows Phone Developer Tools. In this second article in the series, I will discuss a topic that is garnering a lot of interest in recent years -location services. Location services usually involve two key components - getting your location data and displaying your location on a map. Hence in this article, I will first show you how to display a map in your Windows Phone 7 application and then use the Location Service APIs to obtain your current position.
  • Mobile Design - Posted by mclancy 2 weeks 5 days ago
  • Future of the Mobile Web
  • Last week we hosted an event loftily entitled "The Future of the Mobile Web" at the Dublin Convention Centre.
  • - Posted by ronan 6 weeks 13 hours ago
  • Server-side device detection used by 82% of Alexa top 100 sites
  • About 82% of the Alexa 100 top sites use some form of server-side device detection to serve content on their main website entry point. As you descend from the top 10 to the top 25 and top 100 sites the percentage of sites using server-side detection falls from 100% to 96% to 82%. This is an interesting fact given the all of the recent discussion in the blogosphere of responsive design using client-side techniques such as media queries.
  • Frameworks - Posted by VanceMan 1 year 22 weeks ago
  • The goMobi Challenge is on!
  • UPDATE:*** Given that it’s been a very hot summer this year, we decided everyone needed a few days to regroup for the goMobi Challenge. Since we want to see just how personalized you can make a goMobi site, we’re giving you a little extra time to show us your stuff. We’ve extended the contest through October 17, 2010.
  • iPad - Posted by weimenglee 1 year 40 weeks ago
  • Using the PopoverView in iPad App Development
  • In the previous article, we saw how to develop a new type of application known as the Split View-based application on the iPad. And one of the new views introduced for the iPad is the PopoverView, which you had a quick glimpse of it in action in the previous article. In this article, I will show you how you can use the PopoverView in your iPad application, not just in a Split View-based application. Getting Started with the PopoverView
  • Android - Posted by ruadhan 2 years 6 weeks ago
  • Nexus One: Where is Android at?
  • With the announcement of the new GooglePhone, which promises to be the best Android device yet and by all early reports at least comparable with the iPhone 3GS, it seems appropriate to stop to take a look around to see where Android is at. We start with the breakdown of Android Platform distribution, based on access to the Android Market. Android versions (Source: http://developer.android.com)
  • Android - Posted by weimenglee 2 years 16 weeks ago
  • Understanding User Interface in Android - Part 4: Even More Views
  • In this final installation of the Android Views series of articles, we shall continue our exploration of another category of views - Menu views, and some additional cool views. The views discussed include: Context Menu Options Menu AnalogClock DigitalClock WebView
  • Mobile Design - Posted by weimenglee 2 years 20 weeks ago
  • Understanding User Interface in Android - Part 3: More Views
  • In the previous article, you saw the various basic views such as the TextView, EditText, Button, and how you can use them in your Android applications. In this article, we shall continue our exploration of another three categories of views - Picker views, List views, and Display views. The views discussed include: TimePicker view DatePicker view ListView view Spinner view Gallery view ImageView ImageSwitcher view GridView view
  • Android - Posted by weimenglee 2 years 26 weeks ago
  • Understanding User Interface in Android - Part 2: Views
  • In the previous article on Android UI you saw the components that make up the UI of an Android application. The basic unit of the Android UI is the View. A View represents a widget that has an appearance on the screen. In this article (and the next two), you will learn about the various common views that you would likely use in your journey of Android development. In particular, I have categorized the views in this series into the following group: Basic Views - commonly-used views such as TextView, EditText, and Button views
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