Design & Development
Content Delivery for Mobile Devices
May 7, 2008, by juanin
In the past, delivering content to mobile devices has been a very tricky subject. Developers who came into the mobile world were usually confronted with a new and unknown paradigm, where very little information could be found on how to determine devices' capabilities and to deliver content to them... Read More
Email configuration via SMS
April 24, 2008, by Julien Buratto
Many of you will have experienced how a call to a network operator has resulted in an SMS containing configuration settings being sent to your phone. In this article we will look at how to configure a mobile phone's email account settings via SMS. Many phones support POP3 and IMAP accounts; in this example we are going to configure a simple POP3 account. To check emails, an access point (APN) is also needed, so we will also configure an internet connection... Read More
Image Adaptation with DeviceAtlas
March 31, 2008, by svo9712
In this article we look at image adaptation using the DeviceAtlas API. For the mobile web it is often important to provide device specific images with correct format and size. Here we describe an Image Adaptation API, developed by Muntasir Mamun Joarder which makes use of the DeviceAtlas PHP API to to convert images on-the-fly into a format and size appropriate for the requesting device... Read More
The DeviceAtlas API in PHP – Part II (Beyond the API)
Update 10/02/2009 We have just released version 2.3 of our API as a Beta with a whole host of new features that make integrating it into any PHP website much much easier. The new API also does all the hard work described in this tutorial for you, so stop reading and check it out. The download comes with extensive samples and documentation to help you get started too. Find out more... (Part II in a two part series. See Part I )"DeviceAtlas is the world's most comprehensive database of mobile device information." [deviceatlas.com]. The database comes with an API that developers can use to determine the capabilities of devices browsing their website and in so doing adapt their content to make it suitable for the user’s context. Part II of this tutorial will point out some of the challenges that developers may encounter in implementing DeviceAtlas such as user agent "sniffing" and data caching for increased performance. It will also provide possible methods to address these challenges and a few examples of these... Read More
The DeviceAtlas API in PHP – Part I (The Basics)
UPDATED... AGAIN... 10/02/2009 We have just released version 2.3 of our API as a Beta with a whole host of new features that make integrating it into any PHP website much much easier. The download comes with extensive samples and documentation to help you get started. Find out more... Read More
