Hybrid Mobile Apps with ASP.NET MVC. Mobile devices are everywhere Over a decade ago, while attending a Microsoft Professional Developers Conference, we were shown a video on the coming mobile future. The video showcased futuristic-looking, Windows-powered phones being used for tasks such as locating the closest doctor’s office. In an era where the Palm VII was the closest thing to a smartphone, the video showcased an impressive future. Fast forward to 2013: There is no mistake that we are living this future. Smartphones and other mobile devices are everywhere. They are available at multiple price points and are increasingly affordable. In fact, for many in the developing world, their only computer is the powerful smartphone they own. Mobile application development: growth predictions from Gartner Gartner predictsi by 2016, at least 50 percent of enterprise e-mail users will rely primarily on a browser, tablet, or mobile client instead of a desktop client.
The Apple app store now boasts over 500,000 apps. Figure 1. Figure 2.
Overview of Breakpoints in Responsive Web Design. Last time, we went over media queries. This is an important aspect to know of Responsive Web Design (RWD from now on) because it is this CSS declaration that allows for the different layouts to appear at different screen sizes. Hmm, now what about different screen sizes? To make it easy to understand, lets look at this using an analogy. So, imagine that RWD is a blueprint for a wonderfully new house. What are Break Points *Image Credit: djeucalyptus Break points in RWD are browser widths that have a media query declaration to change the layout once the browser is within the declared range.
This media query is called once a device with a browser width of 768px or below is viewing this page, creating a break point. The Standard Breakpoints On average, every responsive site will have a minimum of two break points. Mobile Tablets Going the Extra Mile Mobile Portrait Mobile Landscape Tablet Portait Tablet Landscape Creating Custom Breakpoints *Image Credit: bookgrl Why Create Custom Breakpoints.
Target iPhone and iPad with CSS3 Media Queries. When designing a website, it’s always a good idea to test on as many different platforms, devices, and browsers as possible. These days, pimping your websites for the iPhone and iPad is an important step in the design process. Especially on the iPad, sites tend to look about 20% cooler than on desktop browsers, so you definitely want to take the time to fine-tune the details. And when dealing with iDevices, it’s often necessary to deliver some custom CSS to make everything just right. Want to apply CSS styles to the iPad and iPhone? Here is the plug-n-play, copy-&-paste code that actually works.
As you may have heard, I’ve been super-busy behind the scenes building an Angry-Birds fan site, of all things. The site is looking great so far, but needed some tweaking to appear slick on the iPad and iPhone. Target iPad & iPhone with separate CSS files If you want to apply styles to the iPad and iPhone using external stylesheets, put this code in your <head>: <!
How does it work? The viewport metatag (Mobile web part 1) | David Calhoun's Blog. The skinny Use this: Introduction This series of posts is intended to introduce web developers to basic techniques for designing for the mobile web. It assumes at least a basic knowledge of creating desktop websites.
The problem Ok, so you’ve settled down to learn how to write a website for a mobile device using your current knowledge of building desktop websites. So you start off with some pretty basic HTML: <! Ok! <p class=”wp-caption-text”> Hello World on the iPhone </p></div> Doh! This is the first lesson in making mobile websites: width is your enemy. If you think about it logically, it seems to make sense: mobile Safari took a look at the page and assumed it was a document designed for the desktop, which is true of the vast majority of websites.
Viewport But this is no good! Now we tweak our Hello World just a bit… <! And we get this… <div id=”attachment_203” style=”width: 320px” class=”wp-caption aligncenter”> <p class=”wp-caption-text”> Hello World with the Viewport tag </p></div> iPhone CSS Template | Peter Hinton Design. After developing a few iPhone compatible websites I realised there aren’t many templates available for designers / developers to quickly use as a basis for their own, so I thought I’d release mine. A quick shout out goes to UiUIKit, my template is based on this excellent resource. And here’s a little something I prepared earlier… Browser Detection I won’t go into much detail as there are several solutions available for whatever your platform / language you’re using. WURPL seems to be the most commonly used. You will also need to decide if you want to provide the iPhone version as a redirect following detection or, as a separate URL for users to manually navigate to.
There is nothing different about the CSS code to use. Add the following into your browsers tag: The <meta> tag sets the websites width and disables Safari’s scaling. The first <link> tag is obviously the link to your CSS file. Apple has stated that “The bookmark icon dimensions should be 57×57 pixels. Testing. Kendo UI - jQuery HTML5 framework for desktop, mobile app development, HTML5 data visualization. 2011 from Microsoft's Perspective - James Akrigg, Microsoft UK. Ready to Get Mo? Article "Make it Work! " Cross-Device Websites a Must for UK Consumers In the UK, people are using multiple devices to complete their purchases. Find out how a mobile-friendly website as part of a multi-screen strategy wins customers. Read more. Case Study Alpharooms mobile conversion rate quadruples Alpharooms doubles overall conversion rate and increases mobile conversion fourfold with responsive web design.
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