Device Database

Future of the Mobile Web Whitepaper

mclancy — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:46:11 +0000

We're very happy to publish this paper arising from the The Future of the Mobile Web event held at the Dublin Convention Centre in January 2012. We covered a lot of ground and the paper is a serious attempt to capture all the topics covered from HTML5 to responsive design to device detection and many others. We found it to be a very worthwhile process to listen, validate our ideas and learn from others in the process of writing it. We hope it is useful to a wider readership also.

Future of the Mobile Web

mclancy — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:13:12 +0000

Last week we hosted an event loftily entitled "The Future of the Mobile Web" at the Dublin Convention Centre.

Future of the Mobile Web: Request for submissions

mclancy — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:35:53 +0000

Dear mobiForge community,

We have invited a number of colleagues and opinion formers from across several different verticals to a forum event in Dublin on January 26th next to discuss some of the most pressing issues, trends, opportunities and challenges in today’s mobile web environment. People from companies like Adobe, Cloud Four, Nokia, Yiibu and others will be coming along.

The idea is to build towards a consensus on current technology, facts, fictions and opportunities of the mobile web in an environment that is increasingly noisy and hype filled.

The best of breakingdevelopment conference

ronan — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:45:40 +0000

As many of you know, the breakingdevelopment conference took place in Nashville, Tennessee over the last few days. It appears to have been a really seminal conference with 13 leading mobile web developers speaking.

Others have already put together summaries of the conference but I thought I'd link to what I thought were the most interest presentations.

DeviceAtlas & jQueryMobile

daniel.hunt — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 06:00:00 +0000

The first Alpha release of jQueryMobile was announced today, to great fanfare, and the mobile web world is already on fire with the thoughts of what this will mean to them.

A little bit of background...

Originally developed by John Resig, jQueryMobile's big brother "jQuery" is now in use by pretty much anyone who implements advanced JavaScript capabilities on their site.

Device Detection in the Cloud: DeviceAtlas Personal

ruadhan — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 14:49:20 +0000

In this article we offer full tutorial on how to use the preview release of the service. So what is DA Personal?

The purpose of DeviceAtlas Personal is to make device detection even easier. The main difference between DA Personal and DeviceAtlas, is that Personal is a Web service. It works as follows: a user visits your Web site on his mobile device. You then forward the User-Agent HTTP request header to the DA Personal service, and the response you receive will contain information about the user's device. That's it!

DeviceAtlas & HTML5

daniel.hunt — Wed, 19 May 2010 12:50:37 +0000

HTML5 is the brand new version of HTML, which contains a number of differences to it's predecessor.

DeviceAtlas - Now with C++ & Apache Module

daniel.hunt — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:22:17 +0000

Here at dotMobi we're paying attention to what you, our users, customers and loyal followers want.
And something we've noticed about your comments and emails, is that one of the most important things about device detection is performance.

Well, in answer to the floods of emails from our regulars, we're delighted to announce the release of an official C++ API implementation, and an Apache Module!

A minimal mobile-aware web app with Python & cloud-based device detection

ronan — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:44:05 +0000

In this article we'll look at a how to make a minimal device-aware web application. The point of this article is not to demonstrate a useful application but rather to show just how little code is required to make an app that is fully device aware, and that can change its presentation entirely depending on the nature of the device accessing it.

The Beauty of Mobile Device Data

ronan — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:13:52 +0000

Recently at dotMobi we have been investigating how to make our DeviceAtlas device detection even better, while at the same time trying to keep the size of the distributable database as compact as possible. As some of you may know, DeviceAtlas uses a tree of data stored in a very compact JSON file to distribute our device data knowledge. The actual format of this JSON file is a Patricia tree organised around the user-agent strings of the devices that we have data about.