#mobile (321 links)
- Android Developer Challenge Gallery - Android code.google.com
- Mobile Phone Software & Applications :: Cascada Mobile cascadamobile.com
The easiest way to create and distribute mobile applications for free
Driven by iTunes and the iPod, Gen Y has a voracious appetite for digital music, ring tones and all things mobile.
This document gives general guidelines for web developers and content authors who are searching for directions to help create sites for the mobile web.
"Support for XHTML-MP, i-mode and 3G devices" but £299 plus VAT. Ouch.
- Ralph Lauren Mobile m.ralphlauren.com
- People-centric Mobile Computing | About Mobility Weblog weblog.cenriqueortiz.com
An Introduction to the mobile context and mobile social software, which explores the topics of the mobile context and its role on what I referred to as People-centric mobile computing.
- Google Mobile Ads services.google.com
- Communities Dominate Brands: When there is a mobile phone for half the planet: Understanding the biggest technology communities-dominate.blogs.com
As of November 2007 there were 3.3 billion mobile phone subscriptions around the world. At 6.6 billion people globally, yes, there is a mobile phone subscription for half of the planet. But that is not really the whole story. So lets delve deeper into these numbers.
- W3C mobileOK Checker [BETA] validator.w3.org
Evaluates mobile-readiness using industry best practices & standards.
- PC Pro: News: Google: mobile browsers are dead pcpro.co.uk
"Google claims that every phone manufacturer will offer full web browsers within a year, hailing the end of mobile-specific browsers." Aside from browsers on the billions of handsets that've been sold worldwide to date.
- djangobile - Google Code code.google.com
Djangobile is a django extension for render web pages according to device capabilities. Therefore djangobile offers an implementation for W3C Working Draft IDEAL (Interface DEscription Authoring Language).
- How to: Fake the iPhone User Agent : Pain in the Tech paininthetech.com
- Google Mobile Optimizer google.co.uk
- [DRAFT] Shared Web Experiences: Barriers Common to Mobile Device Users and People with Disabilities w3.org
People with disabilities (using desktop or laptop computers) and people without disabilities who are using mobile devices have similar interaction limitations and they experience similar barriers when interacting with Web sites. There is also significant overlap between the design solutions for both.
- Fresh Android SDK released (sdk v0.9_r1) :: anddev.org - Android Development Community | Android Tutorials anddev.org · Archived on
Screenshots from the Android SDK.
- Android Developers Blog: Announcing a beta release of the Android SDK android-developers.blogspot.com
The beta SDK that we're releasing today is the first big step on the SDK's road to compatibility with 1.0. Since this is a beta release, applications developed with it may not quite be compatible with devices running the final Android 1.0. However, the APIs are now pretty stable and we don't expect any major changes.
One of the more interesting things I’ve found is what is happening in the bottom 1.5 to .5% of the browsers that are hitting our sites. I’m starting to see devices appear en masse which are not PC’s.
Great intro to Fire Eagle from Coates.
- minidetector - Google Code code.google.com
"A simple middleware and associated decorator that will add a ".mobile" attribute to your request objects, which, if True, means the requester is coming to you from a mobile phone (cellphone), PDA, or other device that should be considered small screened, or have an underpowered browser, such as games consoles."
- tilt view : find mobile websites or url tiltview.com
A config file that contains the correct UA strings for a few common phones and the W3C Default Delivery Context. This will save you the trouble of finding the correct strings yourself.
- 2D Sense 2dsense.com
QR and other 2D code recognition for iphone
Urban game based on cameraphones and the use QR-Codes.
A GPS-based activity tracker that runs on Nokia smartphones. Information such as speed, distance and time are automatically stored in your training diary, and on this site you can store and share your workouts and routes.
- 3dtracking free.3dtracking.net
Monitor the movements of a live vehicle/person or to display a previous route that's been traveled. The vehicle/person's path is displayed as a line on either Google Earth or Google Maps with details of the speed at each point along the route.
- Location Technologies Primer techcrunch.com
Being location aware is the single most important feature in a mobile device that otherwise suffers in comparison with desktop and laptop Internet devices
The dominance of visually-driven interfaces become especially problematic in the mobile context. Design principles and conventions like WYSIWYG and GUI become brittle and broken on small devices.
"Get a handy little iPhone or iPod Touch version of any website." Genius. Makes me wish I had an iPhone.
- Log time and expenses to Harvest with Twitter getharvest.com
By connecting your Twitter account to your Harvest account, you will be able to perform simple commands in Harvest by sending Twitter messages to Harvest.
- DeviceAtlas | DeviceAtlas deviceatlas.com
The world's most comprehensive database of mobile device information. Everything you ever wanted to know about every handset on the planet.
- advertising practitioner: phones, attention, rods of media power russelldavies.typepad.com
Advertising's finest moments always come in the compression of complex, confusing information into simple, stark, attention-grabbing images and ideas. That challenge is at it's greatest on the phone.
- AppleInsider | Google iPhone usage shocks search giant appleinsider.com
Google on Wednesday said it has seen 50 times more search requests coming from Apple iPhones than any other mobile handset -- a revelation so astonishing that the company originally suspected it had made an error culling its own data.
Web sites can more efficiently meet both goals when developers understand the significant overlap between making a Web site accessible for a mobile device and for people with disabilities.
"What I’ve seen in our work is that form factor, though important, is not crucial. In fact, it might be a misleading concern. The thing that’s interesting about designing for mobile isn’t the form of the device. It’s that the device comes with you