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admin — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 13:48:31 +0000

DotMobi Tools & Resources

Mobile Web Developer's Guide - our comprehensive guide to mobile web development
DeviceAtlas - dotmobi device capabilities database
Ready.mobi - dotmobi compliance and MobileOK Basic page and site tester
XHTML mobile templates - dotmobi compliant mobile templates for your mobile webpages
Virtual Developer Lab - use REAL devices remotely from your desktop. 5 hours free!

DotMobi-compatible Authoring and Publishing tools

Emulators

The following emulators are very usful for testing mobile applications without incurring data charges.

dotMobi Online Emulator - mTLD has an online emulator that you can use to quickly see what your site will look like on a common phone
Nokia Browser Simulator - this simulator simulates a generic Nokia phone and WAP gateway
Openwave Phone Simulator - Openwave's browser simulator
Opera Mini Simulator - simulates Opera's popular J2ME browser
BlackBerry Simulator - multiple different BlackBerry simulators

Developer Fora

Forum Nokia - one of the largest mobile developer fora, Forum Nokia contains lots of very useful information about Nokia phones and browsers
Ericsson Mobility World - the Ericsson developer community
SonyEricsson Developer World - developer forum for SonyEricsson handsets
Openwave Developer Network - one of the original mobile developer communities
Telefonica's Movilforum - Spanish language developer forum
Betavine - Vodafone's new R&D site

Mailing Lists

wmlprogramming - mailing list dedicated to mobile web and WURFL in particular
Mobile Design - discussion list to provide a better of level of interaction for the mobile design community

World Wide Web Consortium Mobile Initiatives

In keeping with its mission to "develop interoperable technologies to lead the Web to its full potential", the World Wide Web Consortium has recently taken a strong interest in the mobile web and associated technolgies. The main initiatives are listed below.

Mobile Web Initiative - the World Wide Web Consortium has a number of initiatives aimed at trying to bringing the web to mobile devices. mTLD is a sponsor of this group.
Best Practices Working Group - this group devotes its efforts to coming up with a set of best practices for mobile web content
Device Description Working Group - this group is creating a standard way to describe mobile devices so that web applications can adapt content dynamically

Other Resources

W3C's Mobile Web Best Practices - version 1.0 of the document published on November 2nd
WURFL - WURFL is the de-facto standard in device recognition databases with support for thousands of device variants and APIs for a number of common languages
GAP - Luca Passani's Global Authoring Practices for the Mobile Web - list of some very useful practices for mobile web authoring
GAP Templates - templates to help people with creating good mobile pages in accordance with GAP
Luca Passani's Switcher - can be used to direct web traffic to mobile or PC versions of your site based on the type of device accessing the site
The Wireless FAQ - useful FAQ for mobile web developers
Google Mobile Sitemap - guide to creating a map of your mobile site that will help the Google crawlers to find your mobile content.

Switching code - PHP

ruadhan — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:01:12 +0000

<?php
  define('MOBILE_SITE', 'http://live.com');
  define('DESKTOP_SITE', 'http://google.com');
 
  if($_REQUEST['redirect']=='false') {
    header('Location: ' . DESKTOP_SITE );
    exit;
  }
 
  define('DA_USE_COOKIES', true);
  define('DA_USE_CACHE', true);
  define('DA_CACHE_DIR', sys_get_temp_dir() . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'DeviceAtlasCache' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR);
  define('DA_URI', 'http://detect.deviceatlas.com/query');
  $da_results = array('_source' => 'none');
 
  if (DA_USE_COOKIES && isset($_COOKIE['Mobi_Mtld_DA_Properties'])) {

Switching code - ASP.NET / C#

ruadhan — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:51:21 +0000

<%@ Page Language="C#" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.IO" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.Security.Cryptography" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.Net" %>
 
<%
string mobileSite = "http://live.mobi";
string desktopSite = "http://google.com";
 
if(Request["redirect"]!=null && Request["redirect"]=="false") Response.Redirect(desktopSite);
 
string source = "none";
bool useCookies = true;
bool useCache = true;
string daJson = null;
string DA_CACHE_DIR = System.IO.Path.GetTempPath() + "DeviceAtlasCache\\";

Switching code - JSP

ruadhan — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 09:02:23 +0000

<%@ page import="java.net.*, java.io.*, java.security.*" %>
<%
 
final String mobileSite = "http://live.mobi";
final String desktopSite = "http://google.com";
 
if(request.getParameter("redirect")!=null && request.getParameter("redirect")=="false") {
  response.sendRedirect(desktopSite);
}
 
final String DA_URI = "http://detect.deviceatlas.com/query";
String source = "none";
boolean useCookies = true;
boolean useCache = true;
String error = "";
String daJson = null;

Aditic

admin — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:55:54 +0000

Nokia mobile theme for Drupal released

ruadhan — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:26:29 +0000

After many hours of work spread over a couple of months, I have finally released the first version of the Nokia Mobile Theme on drupal.org. The theme is really a theme on steroids! While normally it should just deal with printing out to screen a few tags and content, in my case I had to add a number of functions for device detection.

Nokia posts proposal for next year's smartphone UI

ruadhan — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:35:46 +0000

Details are beginning to emerge regarding what Nokia wants to see in the next-gen Symbian user interface.

Developed for Symbian 4 - sorry, 'Symbian^4' - Nokia's proposal for the UI calls for a redesigned display in which a standard titlebar at the top of the screen with the remainder managed by the application in the foreground.

What's Happening in WebOSLand

ruadhan — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:55:00 +0000

What’s happening in webOSland is a collection of interesting links to articles and conversations about webOS and webOS development.

An Android Developer's Top 10 Gripes

ruadhan — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:44:28 +0000

Put on your favorite self-pitying emo music and get ready for some developer frustration. I'm running down the top 10 things I love to hate about Android.

Android Wireframe Templates

ruadhan — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:34:50 +0000

Here's a little something for all you people making lovely apps for Android. If you use a pencil before you start to take your app to the digital realm, then we've made some templates to help you design for some of the Android handsets out there.