Posted by mrsamdk 2 years 46 weeks ago
Knowing very little about the DeviceAtlas service, I got a few questions.
An ideal setup for me would be the following:
- Upon browser detection, i'd like to redirect the user within the following criterias;
If you're browsing from some sort of smartphone, i'd like to redirect the user to lets say: site.com/smartphones/ - for this to work, I guess I need to manually categorize a bunch of mobilephones from your database then? Is this possible? Would there be a smarter approach to this?
All other phones should be redirected to lets say: site.com/otherphones/
Would this be possible with DeviceAtlas?
My idea is that I want to design the best possible layout for smartphones, so that I can take advantage of the more "high end" features that these phones support and for everything else i'd like to make a more simplified layout.
Posted by mrsamdk 2 years ago
Got an additional question - lets say i'm developing a mobile site for a customer and for some reason the site won't redirect to his phone. Would there be some kind of procedure to report any lack of phones in your db and upon reporting how quickly do you guys add these new info to your database? Would I be able to add any info instantly myself? I mean waiting a few days for you guys to add something, could in some cases be two days too long, if you're working on something for a costumer?
Also, would I be able to use your API from my own server?
Thanks in advance :)
Posted by MRLacey 2 years ago
As you suspect, you'll have to make you're own classification for "high end".
Rather than maintain your own list of devices, it'll be easier in the long run to specify the characterisitics of a device which meet the "high end" requirements.
This can be done with data from DeviceAtlas.
You may want to consider some of the following properties when defining your "high end" criteria:
- displayWidth/UsableDisplayWidth
- osOsx/osWindows/osRim/osLinux/osSymbian
- cookieSupport
- markup.xhtmlMp12
- Vendor
- Model
Posted by mrsamdk 2 years ago
Hey MRLacey,
Thanks a lot for your response. That was exactly the answers I was looking for. But I think you're right, having to maintain my own list would probably end up being a tough job. I would probably be able to pull a lot of the smartphones just by setting up some kind of statement for displayWidth/UsableDisplayWidth.
Guess I should take a look at the developer file, to see how things work :)
Posted by atrasatti 2 years ago
Mobile Genius
With regards to your other questions, the DeviceAtlas API is going to be part of your web application and comes in different languages. Then you download a JSON file (and you can setup automatic downloads) and it all runs on your local site, so no connection is made to our servers.
To add new data to our service, we have an API that we expose, if you are interested, we can provide a small library and specs and you can run it on your server and send us data.
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