Slides and additional resources for my talk “Rails for Mobile Devices” at Conferencia Rails 2011
Last week I gave a talk about developing web applications for mobile devices at Conferencia Rails.
These are the slides to my talk:
Rails for Mobile Devices @ Conferencia Rails 2011 View more presentations from Alberto Perdomo
At the end of the slides you’ll find a list of helpful tools for developing mobile web applications, but here goes another list of additional resources you might find useful.
On building mobile web apps in general:
- Understading the viewport: http://www.quirksmode.org/mobile/viewports.html
- The next generation of mobile web applications: http://jtaby.com/2011/07/01/the-next-generation-of-mobile-web-apps.html
- On mobile web apps that imitate native apps: http://cvil.ly/2011/06/19/pretenders-why-mobile-web-apps-should-stop-trying-to-act-like-native-apps/
- Why mobile apps sucks when you’re mobile: http://blog.davidsingleton.org/mobiletcp
Frameworks and boilerplates:
- jQuery Mobile: Touch-Optimized Web Framework for Smartphones & Tablets. A unified user interface system across all popular mobile device platform. http://jquerymobile.com/
- Sencha Touch: a mobile JavaScript framework for developing HTML5 web apps that looks at feel native. http://www.sencha.com/products/touch/
- Zepto: a minimalist JavaScript framework for mobile WebKit browsers, with a jQuery-compatible syntax. http://zeptojs.com/
- xui: a super micro tiny dom library for authoring html5 mobile web applications. http://xuijs.com/
- Skeleton: A Beautiful Boilerplate for Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Development. http://www.getskeleton.com/
HTML5:
- Debugging HTML 5 Offline Application Cache: http://jonathanstark.com/blog/2009/09/27/debugging-html-5-offline-application-cache/
- HTML5 Video Player Comparison: http://praegnanz.de/html5video/
- HTML5 slides, samples and tutorials: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/
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