- Best Practices - Posted by cameronmoll 3 years 1 week ago
A Beginner's Guide to Mobile Web Development- While accessing the web on a mobile device is nothing new, a renewed interest in developing mobile web content has been ignited by the increased availability of WAP 2.0 devices, an abundance of skilled XHTML developers, and notable efforts by groups such as dotmobi and the W3C’s Mobile Web Initiative.
- dotMobi Compliance - Posted by ronan 3 years 1 week ago
dotMobi Mobile Web Developer's Guide- I am proud to announce we recently posted the dotMobi Mobile Web Developer's Guide on mobiForge. This is quite a comprehensive guide to mobile web development. It layers on the advice from the W3C's Mobile Web Initiative Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 document, but takes it further.
- Android - Posted by weimenglee 20 weeks 9 hours 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 24 weeks 2 days 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
- Browsers - Posted by weimenglee 27 weeks 1 day ago
Build Web Apps for iPhone using Dashcode- So far, much mobile developer attention has been fixated on the iPhone SDK released by Apple to build native iPhone applications. This is understandable, since with the SDK you can write native iPhone apps that take full advantage of the capabilities provided by the device, such as accessing the accelerometer, the camera, as well as obtain geographical locations using Core Location.
- Android - Posted by weimenglee 30 weeks 1 day 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
- Best Practices - Posted by Ronan_Mandel 35 weeks 2 days ago
Mobile Web 2.0 "Dramatic Developments" from AT&T Really not all that dramatic....- Well, I'm sad to report that the folks over/up/down at AT&T wireless appear to not quite have their act together when it comes to what is the 'next big thing' in wireless. I had really been hoping/anticipating that the webinar they hosted on June 30 entitled "Dramatic Developments in Mobile Web Technology" was going to provide something concrete and actionable for you (and I), alas, that was not to be the case.
- Android - Posted by weimenglee 37 weeks 1 day ago
Understanding User Interface in Android - Part 1: Layouts- So far in my previous few articles on Android I have focused on showing you how to get things done in Android without really spending too much time discussing the visual aspect of Android application development - User Interface design. In this article, and the next, I will walk you through the various elements that make up the UI of an Android application. In this first part of the article, I will discuss the various layouts available in Android to position the various widgets on your screen.
- Browsers - Posted by atrasatti 37 weeks 2 days ago
User-Agent Switcher for Safari 4- The User Agent Switcher plug-in for Firefox has been a GREAT add-on and we all love it. 1 year and 27 weeks ago Ronan wrote a really simple, but useful configuration file for it that is available here on mobiForge (if you use Firefox it's a MUST: User Agent Switcher config file).
- Best Practices - Posted by Ronan_Mandel 39 weeks 9 hours ago
- Are Widgets ready for me?
- OK, so getting back to the widget reality here. I'd like to take a look at what the platforms are, what your options are and if it's really even worth it to go there. I know that last time I got a bit distracted with the whole 'sprite' thing, but I promise to stay on track here.
