Mobile Design & Development Workshop Assets
Files and resources used in my mobile workshops
Melbourne Workshop
We began to create a simple event tool, but were unable to get through all of it in the time we had.
Sydney Workshop
We created a simple Twitter search tool, that displays our predefined search topics.
Example Apps
Viewable on an iPhone, iPod touch or the iPhone Simulator.
Apple Examples
Viewable on an iPhone, iPod touch or the iPhone Simulator. Code and documentation available from Safari DevCenter.
Libraries
Handy tools for creating mobile web apps.
Device Detection Scripts
PHP scripts that help you detect and route devices to the right places.
Device Databases
Device databases that contain a lot of user agents.
Video Demos
A few video demos of some of the above I use in my talks.
Web Tools
A few tools to help get the job done.
- SimplePie dead simple XML parser for PHP. Allows us to create simple mobile apps from external data.
- Yahoo! Pipes useful to working with external data that we can import into a simple app.
Software Used
The software I used in my workshops.
- iPhone Simulator included in the free iPhone software development kit, but you will need a Mac. (Tip: create a sample one-click app in Dashcode, run it, which will open the Simulator. Then control+click in the dock to reveal in Finder. Add an alias to the Simulator to your Applications folder for easy launching next time.)
- Dashcode included in the free iPhone software development kit, but you will need a Mac.
- Opera using the small screen option for lowest common denominator preview.
- Safari 4 Beta for desktop preview.
- TextMate for markup and javascript.
- CSSEdit for styles.
- xScope for fine tuning.
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