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HTML5 for the Mobile Web: Touch Events 15 Aug 2013 | 09:30 pm
With the widespread adoption of touchscreen devices, HTML5 brings to the table, among many other things, a set of touch-based interaction events. Mouse-based events such as hover, mouse in, mouse out ...
Developing with Google Maps v2 for Android 7 Aug 2013 | 07:13 pm
In one of my previous articles, I talked about embedding Google Maps in Android applications. Much has changed as Google went about revamping a lot of existing APIs in Android. In version 1 of Google ...
A selection of easy-to-use tools to build a responsive site 31 Jul 2013 | 02:36 pm
There are various techniques for building mobile websites. Previously we wrote this article which covers some of these techniques, and which gives an overview to help developers to decide which approa...
Tablet and mobile device detection in PHP 26 Jul 2013 | 08:11 pm
Previously on mobiForge Ronan posted about a lightweight approach to device detection using regular expressions in PHP. Since this is still an approach widely adopted by many web developers today, we ...
HTML5 for the Mobile Web: Device Orientation Events 10 Jul 2013 | 10:38 pm
In this third article in our series on HTML5 for the mobile web, we take a look at the Device Orientation API. This API provides information about the orientation and movement of a device. Information...
Beyond the bells and whistles: What does iOS7 mean for the development community? 4 Jul 2013 | 10:08 pm
The new iOS7 is causing quite a stir in the development and design communities. Some are hailing Apple's newest operating system as a well overdue renovation. Others are saying that Tim Cook and Jony ...
Designing for Touch: Thumb and Finger Sized Design 19 Jun 2013 | 07:42 pm
IDC recently published research showing that more than 50% of the 418.6 million mobile phones shipped during the first quarter of the 2013 were smartphones. Back in December 2012, Forrester reported t...
A review of Firefox OS, its features and benefits 5 Jun 2013 | 09:49 pm
Mozilla will unleash its new mobile platform Firefox OS shortly, with devices running the system going on sale in Venezuela, Poland, Portugal, Brazil, and Spain in June. There's been a lot of anticipa...
HTML5 for the Mobile Web - a guide to the Geolocation API 30 May 2013 | 06:20 pm
In this second article in our series on HTML5 for mobile web (first part here), we cover the Geolocation API. For mobile users, location-based services are hugely compelling. Long the holy grail of mo...
Google I/O: Android Studio launched to build and test Android apps 27 May 2013 | 09:15 pm
This year’s I/O saw Google showcase a series of mobile-related initiatives focused on helping the Android community to grow and prosper. read more
